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
A comprehensive account of the current contest among Western intellectuals to define Wahhabism
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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