Portraits of Saudi Arabia
E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten
ISBN: 978-0-520-96451-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
With vivid descriptions and moving personal narratives, Danforth takes us across the Kingdom, from the headquarters of Saudi Aramco, the country’s national oil company on the Persian Gulf, to the centuries-old city of Jeddah on the Red Sea coast with its population of undocumented immigrants from all over the Muslim world. He presents detailed portraits of a young woman jailed for protesting the ban on women driving, a Sufi scholar encouraging Muslims and Christians to struggle together with love to know God, and an artist citing the Quran and using metal gears and chains to celebrate the diversity of the pilgrims who come to Mecca.
Crossing the Kingdom paints a lucid portrait of contemporary Saudi culture and the lives of individuals, who like us all grapple with modernity at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
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Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1 • Can Oil Bring Happiness? Alternate Visions of Saudi Aramco
2 • Driving While Female: Protesting the Ban on Women Driving
3 • Saudi Modern: Art on the Edge
4 • Finding Science in the Quran: Creationism and Concordism in Islam
5 • Roads of Arabia: Archaeology in Service of the Kingdom
6 • Saving Jeddah, the Bride of the Red Sea
7 • Who Can Go to Mecca? Conversion and Pilgrimage in Islam
Notes
Bibliography
Index