Abstract
During the Gulf crisis precipitated by the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait, two ‘Islamic’ conferences were held, in one and the same week, in Iraq and Saudi Arabia respectively. Both were convened in the name of Islam, and both hosted an impressive array of Islamic scholars and clergy; yet they went in diametrically opposite directions — one condemned the annexation as a non-Islamic act of aggression, while the other praised the Iraqi leadership for raising the flags of the Islamic cause! How can two equally ‘Islamist’ conferences arrive at such contradictory conclusions, and is Islam a monolithic or a diversified system of ideas and way of life?
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Ayubi, N. (1999). The Politics of Islam in the Middle East with Special Reference to Egypt, Iran and Saudi Arabia. In: Haynes, J. (eds) Religion, Globalization and Political Culture in the Third World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27038-5_4
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