Western Imaginings - Rohan Davis

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Résumé :
Wahhabism is often understood as a radical version of Islam responsible for inspiring and motivating Islamic terrorism. In contrast to the existing literature that treats Wahhabism as a historical phenomenon or a monolithic theological ideology, a literature often written by authors keen to promote geopolitical interests or with ideological axes to grind, Western Imaginings: The Intellectual Contest to Define Wahhabism considers Wahhabism as a discursive construct crafted and popularized by a Western intellectual elite. This comprehensive study speaks to how and why Western intellectuals have chosen to represent Wahhabism in specific ways.

Biographie:
Rohan Davis holds a PhD from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He specializes in the sociology of intellectuals tradition and has a keen interest in the neo-conservative and liberal intellectual traditions.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Wahhabism as a Contested Category
2. On Intellectuals, Prejudice, and Understanding the Social World
3. Dialectics, Ideal Types, Fuzzy Categories, and Analyzing Language
4. Spreading the Rule of Reason: Liberal Imaginings of Wahhabism
5. Themata, Generative Metaphors, and Making Sense of Liberal Intellectuals' Representations of Wahhabism
6. Those Evil and Violent Savages: The Neoconservative Assault on Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinian Struggle for Self-Determination
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index