Madawi al-Rasheed

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Madawi al-Rasheed, 2018

Madawi al-Rasheed ( Arabic مضاوي الرشيد, DMG Maḍāwī ar-Rašīd ; born in October 1962 in Paris , France ) is a social anthropologist from Saudi Arabia . Until 2013 she was professor at the Chair for Theology and Religious Studies at King's College London and since 2017 visiting professor at the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics and Political Science .

Al-Rasheed is also the granddaughter of Mohammed bin Talal al-Rasheed , the last prince of the emirate of Ha'il (now part of Saudi Arabia), and comes from the Āl Raschīd dynasty .

life and work

Madawi al-Rasheed was born in Paris in 1962, her father came from the Āl Raschīd dynasty of Saudi Arabia and her mother was Lebanese . The family moved to Saudi Arabia shortly after their birth, where Madawi al-Rasheed grew up.

When the Saudi King Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz was murdered by his nephew Faisal ibn Musaid in 1975 , the al-Rasheed family was wrongly viewed as the mastermind behind the assassination attempt, as the assassin's mother was a sister of Madawi's father. The family fled accordingly and moved to Lebanon in 1975, where Madawi al-Rasheed graduated from school in 1981. She then studied anthropology and sociology at the American University of Beirut .

When in 1982 as part of the Lebanon war , Israeli troops occupied Lebanon, Al-Rasheed went again into exile and moved to Britain , where they first at Salford University and later at Cambridge University studied and there with a scientific work at Ernest Gellner Ph.D. has been. When she publicly criticized the government of Saudi Arabia in an Al Jazeera television program in 2005 , her Saudi citizenship was revoked.

Al-Rasheed was Professor at the Chair of Theology and Religious Studies at King's College London from 1994 to 2013 and visiting professor at the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics and Political Science since 2017 and visiting professor at the Middle East Institute of the National University in 2016 as part of a break of Singapore . She also lectures irregularly in the United States , Europe and the Middle East and has taught at Goldsmith College, University of London and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Oxford University . Since starting her work at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Al-Rasheed has been researching changes among Saudi Islamists after the Arab uprisings of 2011 , focusing on the reinterpretations of Islamic texts prevalent among a minority of Saudi reformers and activism in pursuit for democratic governance and civil society in Saudi Arabia.

Al-Rasheed was selected for a portrait in the BBC 100 Women series in 2013 . In 2020 she was elected to the British Academy .

Publications (selection)

Madawi al-Rasheed writes about the Arabian Peninsula, Arab migration, globalization, gender issues and religious transnationalism and has written and edited several books in addition to numerous articles in scientific and popular magazines and newspapers.

Books

  • Salman's Legacy: The Dilemmas of a New Era in Saudi Arabia , Oxford University Press, 2018.
  • Muted Modernists: The Struggle over Divine Politics in Saudi Arabia , Oxford University Press 2015.
  • A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia , Cambridge University Press 2013.
  • A History of Saudi Arabia , Second Edition, Cambridge University Press 2010.
  • Contesting the Saudi State: Islamic Voices from a New Generation , Cambridge University Press 2007.
  • Mazaq Al-islah fi al-Saudiyyah fi al-Qarn al-Wahid wa al-Ishrin , al-Saqi, London 2005.
  • A History of Saudi Arabia , Cambridge University Press 2002.
  • Iraqi Assyrian Christians in London: the Construction of Ethnicity , Edwin Mellen Press, New York City 1998.
  • Politics in an Arabian Oasis: the Rashidi Tribal Dynasty , IB Tauris, London 1991.

Editorships

  • M. Al-Rasheed, C. Kersten, M. Shterin (Eds.): Demystifying the Caliphate: Historical Memory and Contemporary Contexts , Hurst and Co., London 2012.
  • M. Al-Rasheed, M. Shterin (Eds.): Dying for Faith: Religiously Motivated Violence in the Contemporary World , IB Tauris, London 2009.
  • Al-Rasheed (Ed.): Kingdom without Borders: Saudi Political, Religious and Media Expansion , Hurst and Co., London 2012.
  • Al-Rasheed (Ed.): Transnational Connections and the Arab Gulf , Routledge, London 2005
  • Al-Rasheed, R. Vitalis (eds.): Counter-Narratives: History, Contemporary Society and Politics in Saudi Arabia and Yemen , Palgrave, New York 2004

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d Maha Abdelrahman: De ‐ exoticizing Saudi Arabia with Madawi Al ‐ Rasheed , Development and Change, December 3, 2019; Pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12558
  2. ↑ a b Madawi al-Rasheed , profile at the London School of Economics and Political Science; accessed on January 8, 2020.
  3. ↑ 100 Women: Who took part? on bbc.com, November 22, 2013; accessed on January 8, 2020.

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personal data
SURNAME Al-Rasheed, Madawi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Al-Rashid, Madawi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saudi Arabian social anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris