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Author Shahi, Afshin

Title The Politics of Truth Management in Saudi Arabia
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (422 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on transliteration; Introduction; Focus of the study; Methodology and structure; Notes; 1. Conceptual framework; Truth management; Islamic truth at the macro level; Truth management at the micro level; Leadership; Narrative construction; Socialization; Violence; Conclusion; Notes; 2. Narrative construction and leadership; The genealogy of Wahhabism; Embryonic construction of Wahhabi narratives; Socio-political conditions in Najd before Wahhabism
The Saudi leadership and the expansion of WahhabismTowards formation of the modern Saudi state; Conclusion; Notes; 3. Towards socialization; Introduction; Trans-tribal Saudi-Wahhabi order: towards construction of the nation-state; Towards institution building; Oil: a determining factor for institution building; Dar Al-Ifta; The Ministry of Islamic Affairs: an agent of religious clientelism; Symbolic capital: the guardianship of the holy sites; Ulama; Conclusion; Notes; 4. Education; Introduction; On education; Education in Saudi Arabia: an overview
Religious studies: the wheel of truth management in the education systemRewriting history: contextualizing the 'truth'; Higher education: the continuation of Wahhabization; Paradoxes of reform and dilemmas of the 'new' educational direction; Conclusion; Notes; 5. On violence; Introduction; State and violence: an overview; The use of violence and the Saudi-Wahhabi alliance; Violence: the historic foundation of the modern Saudi state; Mutawwi'in: the violent guardians of morality; Sexual segregation; Violence and political control; Conclusion; Notes; Conclusion; References; Index
Summary Exploring the management of 'truth' in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this book aims to investigate the ways in which the official 'truth' is constructed and institutionalised in the country. The Politics of Truth Management in Saudi Arabia argues that there are two interrelated notions which articulate the ways in which 'truth' is conceptualised in Islam. One, at macro level, constitutes the trans-historical foundational principles of the religion, a set of engrained beliefs, which establish the 'finality', and 'oneness' of Islam in relation to other competing narratives
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Subject Truthfulness and falsehood -- Saudi Arabia
Wahhābīyah.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Truthfulness and falsehood
Wahhābīyah
Saudi Arabia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781134653263
1134653263
9781134653195
1134653190