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Contents

Introduction

Wahhabism: A Contested Category

The Role of Intellectuals

The Nature of the Political

1 Wahhabism as a Contested Category

Intellectuals, Imagined Geographies, and Imagined Communities: Wahhabism as Threat

Understanding Wahhabism through a Feminist Lens

Saudi School Textbooks and the Problem of Translation

Wahhabism Is Not So Bad After All

2 On Intellectuals, Prejudice, and Understanding the Social World

On the Collective Identity and Attachment of Intellectuals

Intellectuals and the Nation-State

Making Sense of Truth

3 Dialectics, Ideal Types, Fuzzy Categories, and Analyzing Language

Dialectics

On Fuzziness and Ideal Types

Metaphors, Analogies, Similes, Neologisms, and the Cognitive Structuring of Violent Accounts

Critical Discourse Analysis: Language Is Made in and Makes the World

4 Spreading the Rule of Reason: Liberal Imaginings of Wahhabism

Understanding Liberalism: Many Freedoms?

Understanding Liberalism: Toward an Ideal Type

Wahhabism Restricts Freedoms

Wahhabism as Backward and an Obstacle to Progress

Wahhabism Is a Threat to the Ideal Secular Society

5 Themata, Generative Metaphors, and Making Sense of Liberal Intellectuals’ Representations of Wahhabism

Themata

Generative Metaphors

Individualism, Progress: The Key Themata and Generative Metaphors Influencing Liberal Thinking

6 Those Evil and Violent Savages: The Neoconservative Assault on Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinian Struggle for Self-Determination

Introducing the Neoconservatives

Toward an Ideal Type

The Wahhabi Is a Savage

An Unwavering Support for Israel: Wahhabism and Saudi Arabia as Enemies of the Jewish State

Key Themata: The Holy Land and Welcoming the Savior

Good versus Evil

Animal Metaphors and the Noble Savage

7 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography