‫مساءلة الدولة السعودية: اصوات اسلامية من الجيل الجديد‬

Cambridge Middle East Studies #25

by Madawi AlRasheed مضاوي الرشيد

يُنظَرُ إلى مصطلحي "وهّابي" و"سلفي" على أنّهما متداخلان، وغالباً ما يُسَاءُ فهمهما. ولأنّها تعتمد مصادر دينية كلاسيكية، ومقابلات وقراءات معاصرة، تقدّم الرشيد اثنوغرافيا وصفية جامعة، تستكشف من خلالها التخوم المتحرّكة بين السياسة والدين. وفي سعيها لردم الهوّة بين النصّ والسياق، تسبر المؤلّفة كيف يستغلّ المواطنون والدولة معاً الخطاب الديني من أجل تحقيق غايات سياسية، وكيف أن هذا الاستغلال يولّد ردود أفعال، غير متوقّعة، تفلتُ سيطرتها من أيدي الذين أطلقوها.

Genres: Politics, History

592 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 30, 2006

About the author

Madawi Al-Rasheed is Visiting Professor at the Middle East Centre at LSE and Research Fellow at the Open Society Foundation. She was Professor of Anthropology of Religion at King’s College, London between 1994 and 2013. Previously, she was Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. She also taught at Goldsmith College (University of London) and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford.

Reviews

[Diane · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book looks at Islamic opposition movements in Saudi Arabia. The book is well-researched and well-written, but it assumes the reader already has a general knowledge of Saudi Arabia. It also is written in academic jargon, although it is not too hard to understand.

[فهد · Rating 4 out of 5]

الترجمة كانها من ذكاء صناعي، سيئة جدا جدا

[JP · Rating 2 out of 5]

I won't lie; I didn't finish this cover to cover. I took a class in college on this topic and found it very interesting. And I give credit to Mr. Al-Rasheed because as a Muslim, he has done a great deal of research and provides an interesting perspective on fundamental Islam.

Sure, I think all fundamental religion is poisonous to our world, but that doesn't make me discredit Al-Rasheed's sometimes apologetic tone. He isn't afraid to really look at the core issues of fundamental Islam and find where the prime points of tension exist. In accomplishing that, this book is quite useful.

However, while this book is purely academic in style and purpose, it fails to really make any analytical statements or arguments aside from summarizing and clarifying a crapload of stuff religious leaders and fundamentalists have written.

I don't need to hear the author appease me by saying all these Muslim fundamentalists are insane and should be nuked on sight. I would just like to hear some solutions to the issues that apparently seem unresolvable.