{"product_id":"awakening-islam-stephane-lacroix-9780674049642","title":"Awakening Islam: The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmidst the roil of war and instability across the Middle East, the West is still searching for ways to understand the Islamic world. St駱hane Lacroix has now given us a penetrating look at the political dynamics of Saudi Arabia, one of the most opaque of Muslim countries and the place that gave birth to Osama bin Laden. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe result is a history that has never been told before. Lacroix shows how thousands of Islamist militants from Egypt, Syria, and other Middle Eastern countries, starting in the 1950s, escaped persecution and found refuge in Saudi Arabia, where they were integrated into the core of key state institutions and society. The transformative result was the Sahwa, or \"Islamic Awakening,\" an indigenous social movement that blended political activism with local religious ideas. \u003ci\u003eAwakening Islam\u003c\/i\u003e offers a pioneering analysis of how the movement became an essential element of Saudi society, and why, in the late 1980s, it turned against the very state that had nurtured it. Though the \"Sahwa Insurrection\" failed, it has bequeathed the world two very different, and very determined, heirs: the Islamo-liberals, who seek an Islamic constitutional monarchy through peaceful activism, and the neo-jihadis, supporters of bin Laden's violent campaign. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAwakening Islam\u003c\/i\u003e is built upon seldom-seen documents in Arabic, numerous travels through the country, and interviews with an unprecedented number of Saudi Islamists across the ranks of today's movement. The result affords unique insight into a closed culture and its potent brand of Islam, which has been exported across the world and which remains dangerously misunderstood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e St駱hane LaCroix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674049640\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674049642\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.76w x 1.29d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Washington Institute Book Prize - Bronze Medal Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2011 pg. 6\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/25\/2012 pg. 39","brand":"St駱hane LaCroix","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43925549383935,"sku":"9780674049642","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_431e17c5-2ea6-4d16-95e5-aa1cd81ae332.jpg?v=1681077931","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/awakening-islam-stephane-lacroix-9780674049642","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}