Graveyard of clerics everyday activism in Saudi Arabia

The inside story of political protest in Saudi Arabia—on the ground, in the suburbs, and in the face of increasing state repression. Graveyard of Clerics takes up two global phenomena intimately linked in Saudi Arabia: urban sprawl and religious activism. Saudi suburbia emerged after World War II as...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ménoret, Pascal
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Standford, California Stanford University Press 2020, ©2020
Series:Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
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Collection: DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Graveyard of clerics
  • La mubala
  • How can the state torture clerics?
  • Get in your car and drive
  • Aramco's Levittown
  • Blessed are the strangers
  • Subdivision frenzy
  • The genie was out of the bottle
  • We could use the pork rind
  • Make the way narrower for them
  • The Harry Potter dissent
  • All streets are joyriding streets
  • Muslim Brothers and Salafis
  • The best among you
  • The Talal Affair
  • A State within the State
  • The door whence the wind comes
  • Fierce and loud
  • How were you fucked?
  • Those damned liberals
  • Undesirable
  • People did not fall from the sky
  • Brats and braggarts
  • Detained