Western imaginings : the intellectual contest to define Wahhabism / Rohan Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Rohan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, 1703 or 1704-1792.

Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb.

Wahhābīyah.

Islamic fundamentalism.

Physical Description:

viii, 224 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, [2018]

Contents:

Introduction

Wahhabism as a contested category

On intellectuals, prejudice, and understanding the social world

Dialectics, ideal types, fuzzy categories, and analyzing language

Spreading the rule of reason: liberal imaginings of Wahhabism

Themata, generative metaphors, and making sense of liberal intellectuals' representations of Wahhabism

Those evil and violent savages: the neoconservative assault on Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinian struggle for self-determination

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-222) and index.

ISBN:

977416864X

9789774168642

OCLC:

1002666585

Publisher Number:

99976143016