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Urban planning in Saudi Arabia
by Jessica PolebaumFrom Jidda, Nicolai Ouroussoff reports on a Saudi governemnt plan to engineer four new urban centers—what the planners are calling “economic cities”—in the Arabian desert, all to be completed by...
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Reinventing Ramadan in Saudi Arabia
by Laura DuaneYoung people in Saudi Arabia are trying to return Ramadan to its more traditional roots, reports the Washington Post: The trend has partly been inspired by Ahmad al-Shugairi, a popular...
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Rethinking ikhtilat in Saudi Arabia
by Jessica PolebaumThe Economist reports that certain elements of the Saudi clerical elite are reconsidering the validity of the ban on ikhtilat, the mixing of sexes: In the past few months top...
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The Islamic State’s intellectual genealogy (and what you need to read to understand it)
by Alexander Thurston...ISIS. English Source: Thomas Hegghammer and Stéphane Lacroix, “Rejectionist Islam in Saudi Arabia: The Story of Juhayman al-Utaybi Revisited.” Arabic Source: Al-‘Utaybi’s page at al-Maqdisi’s website. 7. Muhammad Nasir al-Din...
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Salafism in Nigeria: An introduction
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Alexander Thurston
...“the pious predecessors”). If you ask most journalists and security analysts, they will tell you that Salafism is a hardline form of Islam exported from Saudi Arabia and associated with...
Religions and their publics
Faith in the nation: Nigerian publics and their religions
by Rudolf P. Gaudio
...other gatekeepers. Nigerians’ sensitivity to the perils of traveling-while-Nigerian was piqued in September 2013 when hundreds of Muslim Nigerian women who had flown to Saudi Arabia to perform the hajj...
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The Arab Gulf States: Beyond Oil and Islam
by Jake Alter...too hard to change our picture of the Gulf. Describing the oil giant Aramco’s entrance into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Foley writes: “Building on a tradition of Saudi-Wahhabi tolerance...