TY  - BOOK
AU  - Farquhar,Michael
TI  - Circuits of faith: migration, education, and the Wahhabi mission 
T2  - Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
SN  - 9780804798358
AV  - LG359.M47 .F37 2017
U1  - 297.7/709538 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Jāmiʻah al-Islāmīyah bi-al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah
KW  - Influence
KW  - Foreign students
KW  - Islamic religious education
KW  - Saudi Arabia
KW  - Wahhābīyah
KW  - Islam and state
KW  - Islamic fundamentalism
KW  - Transnationalism
KW  - Wahhabiten
KW  - gnd
KW  - Salafija
KW  - Daʻwa
KW  - Transnationale Politik
KW  - Religion
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Saudi-Arabien
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-259) and index; Transformations in the late Ottoman Hijaz -- Wahhabi expansion in Saudi-occupied Mecca -- National politics and global mission -- Migration and the forging of a scholarly community -- Rethinking religious instruction -- A Wahhabi corpus in motion -- Leaving Medina
N2  - "Circuits of Faith offers the first examination of the Islamic University and considers the efforts undertaken by Saudi actors and institutions to exert religious influence far beyond the kingdom's borders. Michael Farquhar draws on Arabic sources, including biographical materials, memoirs, syllabi, and back issues of the Islamic University journal, as well as interviews with former staff and students, to explore the institution's history and faculty, the content and style of instruction, and the trajectories and experiences of its students. Countering typical assumptions, Farquhar argues that the project undertaken through the Islamic University amounts to something more complex than just the one-way "export" of Wahhabism. Through transnational networks of students and faculty, this Saudi state-funded religious mission also relies upon, and has in turn been influenced by, far-reaching circulations of persons and ideas"--Back cover
ER  -