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Author Mouline, Nabil, author.

Title The clerics of Islam : religious authority and political power in Saudi Arabia / Nabil Mouline ; translated by Ethan S. Rundell
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (333 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents 1 The Birth of the Hanbali Tradition 17 -- 2 Shedding New Light on the Life of Muhammad Ibn Abd Al-Wahhab 46 -- 3 Hanbali-Wahhabism in the Nineteenth Century: Grandeur and Decadence 70 -- 4 The Birth of a Kingdom and the Renaissance of a Tradition 94 -- 5 Routinization and Institutionalization of Hanbali-Wahhabism 119 -- 6 The Committee of Grand Ulama: An Organization in the Service of the Prince ... and the Population 146 -- 7 Raising the Veil on the Conditions of Access to the Religious Establishment 171 -- 8 Religious Authority in Practice: The Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice 203 -- 9 At the Crossroads: The Religious Establishment Put to the Test of the Saudi Politico-Religious Space 235
Summary "Followers of Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Wahhab, often considered to be Islam's Martin Luther, shaped the political and religious identity of the Saudi state while also enabling the significant worldwide expansion of Salafist Islam. Studies of the movement he inspired, however, have often been limited by scholars' insufficient access to key sources within Saudi Arabia. Nabil Mouline was granted rare interviews and admittance to important Saudi archives in preparation for this groundbreaking book, the first in-depth study of the Wahhabi religious movement from its founding to the modern day. Gleaning information from both written and oral sources and employing a multidisciplinary approach that combines history, sociology, and Islamic studies, Mouline presents a new reading of this movement that transcends the usual resort to polemics"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Translated from the French
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Subject Ulama -- Saudi Arabia -- History
Wahhābīyah -- Saudi Arabia -- History
Islam and state -- Saudi Arabia -- History
Islam and politics -- Saudi Arabia -- History
RELIGION -- Islam -- History.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious.
RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
Islam and politics
Islam and state
Ulama
Wahhābīyah
Wahhabiten
Politik
Ulema
Islam
Staat
Saudi Arabia
Saudi-Arabien
Saudi-Arabië.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Rundell, Ethan S., translator.
LC no. 2014007139
ISBN 9780300206616
0300206615
Other Titles Clercs de l'islam. English