BYU Studies Quarterly
Article Title
Saudi Arabia: The Islamic State
Keywords
Mormon studies, Islam, Saudi Arabia
Abstract
In the two decades since Iran's Islamic revolution, the rapid pace of change in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa has focused attention on the societies there that proclaim loyalty to Islam. Is Islam on a collision course with Western civilization? Can adherence to its principles be reconciled with living and governing in a modernizing world? How will extremists that speak in the name of Islam affect the future of the Middle Est and neighboring regions? These and many similar questions have been debated at length. Yet, after volumes of political, social, and doctrinal analysis, the impression remains that exaggerated fears and misperceptions, rather an understanding, continue to dominate our view of Islam.
Recommended Citation
Axelgard, Frederick W.
(2001)
"Saudi Arabia: The Islamic State,"
BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 40:
Iss.
4, Article 12.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol40/iss4/12