Searching For The Unmediated Allah's Word:Islamic Activism In The Arabian Gulf And The Conceptualization Of “Islamic Tradition”
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2446-5240.malala.2025.235292Keywords:
al-sahwa, islamism, islamic jurisprudence, Saudi ArabiaAbstract
The Islamic movement in Saudi Arabia, al-Sahwa, questioned the internal and external policies of the Saudi monarchy and sought to define a politically engaged Islamic identity, grounded in the example of the People of the Sunna. The fatwas issued by its members articulated the concepts of renewal, reform, and puritanism, in conjunction with the quietist tradition of Muhammad Ibn al-Wahhab. This work aims to observe how translocality studies aid in understanding Islamic activism in the Gulf, and their conceptualization of “Islamic tradition”. Thus, it seeks to comprehend the Sahwa discourse as a product that extends beyond local issues, pursuing a translocal rhetoric of true Muslim conduct at the end of the 20th century.
Downloads
References
AL-RASHEED, Madawi. Contesting the Saudi state: Islamic voices from a new generation. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
ASAD, Talal. The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam. Qui Parle 17: 1–30. 2009 [CrossRef]
ALSHAMSI, MansoorJassem. Islam andpoliticalreform in Saudi Arabia: The quest for politicalchangeand reform. Routledge, 2012.
CORÃO. Tradução para a lingua portuguesapor Helmi Nasr. Society of the Revival of the Islamic Heritage, 2014.
DERRIDA, Jacques. A Escritura e a Diferença. Trad. Maria Beatriz Marques Nizza da Silva. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 2002
ISMAIL, Raihan. Rethinking Salafism: The Transnational Networks of Salafi'Ulama in Egypt, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. Oxford University Press, 2021.
KESKIN, Tugrul (Ed.). The sociology of Islam: secularism, economy and politics. UWA Publishing, 2012.
LACROIX, Stéphane. Awakening Islam: The politics of religious dissent in contemporary Saudi Arabia. Harvard University Press, 2011.
MANDAVILLE, Peter G. Transnational Muslim politics: Reimagining the umma. Routledge, 2003.
OUDA, Salman B. Pitfalls in the Quest for Knowledge. Islamtoday.com. (s.d.). Acesso em: 23/03/2025
OUDA, Salman B. Islam and Secularism. Islamtoday.com. (s.d). Acesso em: 23/03/2025
PEDROSO JUNIOR. N. C. Jacques Derrida e a desconstrução: uma introdução. Encontros de Vista, [S. l.], v. 5, n. 1, p. 48–59, 2021. Disponível em: https://www.journals.ufrpe.br/index.php/encontrosdevista/article/view/4411. Acesso em: 25 mar. 2025.
QARADAWI, Yusuf. Jurisprudence of Priorities. New Vision for Translation and Culture. Cairo, 2012
QARADAWI, Yusuf. How to Approach the Qur´an. Al-Falah Foundation. Cairo, 2001
QARADAWI, Yusuf. Islamic Awakening Between Rejection and Extremism. The International Institute of Islamic Thought. Herndon, 2006
SHAHAM, Ron. Rethinking Islamic legal modernism: the teaching of Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Brill, 2018.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2026 Luisa Pastorini de Castro
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
This journal offers free access to its content, following the principle that making free of charge-scientific knowledge available to the public provides greater worldwide democratization of knowledge. No fees will be charged for submitting work and/or publishing in the journal, as well as for reading, downloading, copying, distributing, printing, searching or referencing after publication. Readers and interested parties are free to share (copy or distribute the material in any media and format) and to transform or adapt parts of the material as long as it is for non-commercial use and the appropriate credit is given to the author and the journal, indicating how the data has been used and/or manipulated.
