Peaceful Jihad: The Islamic Civil Rights Movement in Saudi Arabia

Half Title\nSeries Page\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nContents\nFigures\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction\nChapter 1: The history of the Islamic civil rights movement\n	Saudi political discourse: Power and dissent\n	The Islamo-reformist debate of the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s\n	Rise and fall of the Islamic civil rights movement\nChapter 2: Scholars, activists and intellectuals – HASM’s social background\n	Paths to activism – Biographies of HASM’s main members\n	The Islamic intellectual\nChapter 3: Summarizing HASM’s theory\n	Breaking down the walls of oppression\n	Towards a new Islamic culture of rights\n	The shape of the Islamic state\n	Civil society activism as Islamic obligation\nChapter 4: Heroes or heretics? – Reactions to HASM\n	Reactions to HASM in Saudi Arabia\n	International reactions to HASM\nChapter 5: The intellectual foundations of HASM\n	Primary sources of Islam – Quran and hadith\n	‘Classical’ Islamic scholars\n	Islamic reformers and modernists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries CE\n	Contemporary Islamic authors\n	European and American political thinkers and philosophers\n	Contemporary academics and experts in fields other than Islamic sciences\n	International symbols of political activism\n	Islam is the foundation – Summarizing the analysis of the references\nChapter 6: From words to proofs – The language and arguments of HASM\n	Poems, lectures, treatises – The genres of texts\n	Names and labels\n	The political vocabulary\n	Quran, logic and science – The arguments\n	Identity, culture war and antisemitism\n	Ambiguous translations – Comparing Arabic and English texts by HASM\nChapter 7: Ideas and concepts – The building blocks of HASM’s theory\n	Oppression and the distortion of Islam – Defining the problem\n	Islamic doctrine and the sharia\n	The ‘laws of God’ in nature and society\n	Re-defining Salafism\n	The liberating power of Islam\n	The Islamic constitution\n	Shura and democracy\n	The people and their rulers – Allegiance and authority\n	Individual reasoning and consensus\n	Freedom of thought and difference of opinion\n	Citizenship and the community\n	Civil society activism\n	Islamic human rights\n	Peaceful, civil jihad\n	Interconnectedness – Concepts form a theory\nChapter 8: The limits of HASM’s theory\n	The limits of their concept of Islam\n	The limits of ‘Islamic politics’\nConclusion\nAppendix A: Arabic original of HASM’s founding declaration\nAppendix B: English translation of HASM’s founding declaration\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex