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Historiography in Saudi Arabia

Globalization and the State in the Middle East

Av Jörg Matthias Determann

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Saudi Arabia is generally and justifiably viewed as a country with some of the fewest democratic institutions and the weakest traditions of pluralism. It is therefore surprising to learn that at least in one corner of the Saudi world, there can be found a plurality of opinions and lively debate. Jorg Matthias Determann brings this element to light by analysing an important field of cultural activity in Saudi Arabia: historical writing. Since the 1920s local, tribal, Shi'i and dynastic histories have contributed to a growing plurality of narratives. Paradoxically, this happened because of the expansion of the Saudi state, including state provision of mass education. It was also due to globalizing processes, such as the spread of the internet. In challenging the widely-held perception of Saudi Arabia as an irredeemably closed and monolithic society, Historiography in Saudi Arabia provides a deeper understanding of modern Arab historiography, the Saudi state, and education and scholarship in the Middle East.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2013-10-25
  • Mått: 140 x 218 x 26 mm
  • Vikt: 560 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 352
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781780766645
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Jorg Matthias Determann is Assistant Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. He was previously Postdoctoral Fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient and the Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universitat Berlin, and holds a PhD in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. In 2013, he was one of the two joint winners of the BRISMES Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic.

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'[This book] puts forward a clear argument, namely that with the consolidation and expanssion of the Saudi state, the official historical narrative changed and, additionally, a certainpluralism of historical perspectives developed which Deterann terms "narrative plurality"... Determann's book is clearly written and well-argued. It is based on an impresssibely wide reading and many many interview, the author's long experience in and with the Kingdom here clearly pays off.' Professor Ulrike Freitag, Zentru Moderner Orient and Freie Universitat Berlin 'Matthias Determannn has written a clearly presented, well-organised and convincingly artivularted book on the changing landscape of historiography in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...This is a remarkably lucid, cogently asssembled, and perhaps above all impressibely documented study(both in the vey larde primary literature consulted and also in the number of interviews carried out) that makes a major contribution not only ot its particular field of Saudi, and mroe broadly contemporary Arabic, historiography, but through its historiographical lens also privdes an unusually nuanced reading of Saudi politics, society and culture.' Dr James McDougall. Faculty of History, University of Oxford; 'Determann has produced a well-researched and useful study of the major historiographical trends in Saudi Arabia...his work contributes significantly to our understanding of the complexity of documenting the history of Wahhabism, the Saudi state, and the shifts that occurred in the ideas and practices of historians and the state.' Malek Abisaab, American Historical Review

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