ISBN:
9781503612471
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (264 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ménoret, Pascal, 1976 - Graveyard of clerics
Keywords:
Islam and politics
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Political activists
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Political participation
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Suburbs Political aspects
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies
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Saudi-Arabien
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Islam
;
Politische Betätigung
;
Politisches Handeln
Abstract:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- PART I: THE ISLAMIC AWAKENING -- 1. Graveyard of Clerics -- 3. How Can the State Torture Clerics? -- 4. Get in Your Car and Drive -- PART II: SAUDI SUBURBIA -- 5. Aramco’s Levittown -- 6. Blessed Are the Strangers -- 7. Subdivision Frenzy -- 8. The Genie Was out of the Bottle -- 9. We Could Use the Pork Rind -- 10. Make the Way Narrower for Them -- PART III: AWARENESS GROUPS AND SUMMER CAMPS -- 11. The Harry Potter Dissent -- 12. All Streets Are Joyriding Streets -- 13. Muslim Brothers and Salafis -- 14. The Best among You -- 15. The Talal Affair -- 16. A State within the State -- 17. The Door Whence the Wind Comes -- 18. Fierce and Loud -- 19. How Were You Fucked? -- PART IV: LEAVING ISLAMIC ACTIVISM BEHIND -- 20. Those Damned Liberals -- 21. The Storehouses of the Land -- 22. People Did Not Fall from the Sky -- 23. Brats and Braggarts -- 24. Detained -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index
Abstract:
The inside story of political protest in Saudi Arabia—on the ground, in the suburbs, and in the face of increasing state repression. Graveyard of Clerics takes up two global phenomena intimately linked in Saudi Arabia: urban sprawl and religious activism. Saudi suburbia emerged after World War II as citizens fled crowded inner cities. Developed to encourage a society of docile, isolated citizens, suburbs instead opened new spaces for political action. Religious activists in particular turned homes, schools, mosques, and summer camps into resources for mobilization. With the support of suburban grassroots networks, activists won local elections and found opportunities to protest government actions—until they faced a new wave of repression under the current Saudi leadership. Pascal Menoret spent four years in Saudi Arabia in the places where today's Islamic activism first emerged. With this book, he tells the stories of the people actively countering the Saudi state and highlights how people can organize and protest even amid increasingly intense police repression. This book changes the way we look at religious activism in Saudi Arabia. It also offers a cautionary tale: the ongoing repression by Saudi elites—achieved often with the complicity of the international community—is shutting down grassroots political movements with significant consequences for the country and the world
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
DOI:
10.1515/9781503612471
