(Ebook) Wahhabism and the World: Understanding Saudi Arabia's Global Influence on Islam by Peter Mandaville (Editor) ISBN 9780197532560, 019753256X

(Ebook) Wahhabism and the World: Understanding Saudi Arabia's Global Influence on Islam by Peter Mandaville (Editor) ISBN 9780197532560, 019753256X

The purpose of this volume is to provide an analytical portrait of the Saudi
global daʿwa (religious propagation or “call”) apparatus, explaining its history,
structure, evolution, and role within the kingdom’s broader portfolio of external
relations. Additionally, the various case studies offered in the following pages
seek to contextualize and assess the effects of Saudi religious transnationalism in
various and varying national contexts. Drawing on extensive fieldwork undertaken
by an international team of scholars across multiple world regions, this
study explores the complex— sometimes counterintuitive and contradictory—
interplay between religious influences emanating from Saudi Arabia and local
religious actors and religious cultures in receiving countries. It offers assessments
of how transnational Wahhabism has affected various settings around the world
and provides analytic insights which help to explain how and why these effects
differ from context to context. In addition to presenting cross- cutting research
findings with respect to the broad field of Saudi religious transnationalism, this
study also engages with the debate on the kingdom’s export of Wahhabism as an
object of analysis in its own right and looks at some of the methodological and
epistemological challenges associated with gathering data, navigating indeterminate
terminology, and identifying clear mechanisms of causality linking Saudi
religious influences to specific social, political, and security outcomes.