By Khabrein.info Correspondent,
New Delhi, April 13: A leading New Delhi-based publishing house, Global Media Publications (www.GMPublications.com) released an important book on history and culture of Saudi Arabia in a small book release ceremony at its office. The book titled State and Society in Saudi Arabia: History of State Formation and Social Development discusses the evolution of a modern nation sate in Arab as Saudi Arabia.
Not many books have been published on the formation of Saudi Arabian nation that discuss the way the Saudi Arabian state came into being, how a place, that was known for its deserts and Bedouins was transformed in a short period of time into a prosperous, well organized and a powerful nation state.
This book is an exercise in the direction of understanding and analyzing the phenomenon of the emergence of first modern Islamic Arab nation state in the Arabian peninsular region. A broader aspect of this book is related to the dynamics and philosophy of its transformation without questioning and compromising its Islamic and traditional sociological and cultural foundation. The main objective of modernization and transformation of Saudi Arabia has been to achieve a total compatibility and harmonious relationship between state, society and Islam.
State and Society in Saudi Arabia also takes into account how the political regime in Saudi Arabia has appropriated an intervening role for itself in every aspect of society, economy, cultural and political affairs of Saudi nation state. This also reflects the nature of the state and its dominant influence on the trajectory of the social and economic transformation. The book also deals with the puritan ideology of Wahhabism and its relationship with the Saudi polity. Wahhabism emphasized the imperative of purging out the elements of neo-jahiliyya, tribalism and polytheistic rituals which had penetrated the Arabs’ socio-political edifice and had degenerated and fossilized the inherent dynamics of Arabian social, cultural and political system. The ideology of Wahhabism emphasized the necessity of the regeneration of the fundamental and true values of Islam.
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