This project, funded by the Open Society Foundation Fellowship Programme, focused upon mutations among Saudi Islamists after the 2011 Arab Uprisings. It examined the new reinterpretations of Islamic texts prevalent among a small minority of Saudi reformers and their activism in the pursuit of democratic governance and civil society. The result of this research project, sponsored by the Open Society Foundation Fellowship Programme, appeared in a monograph entitled Muted Modernists: The Struggle Over Divine Politics in Saudi Arabia (Hurst & OUP, 2015). 

Publications

Madawi Al-Rasheed, 'Saudi Arabia's Modern Islamists: and their forgotten campaign for democracy', Foreign Affairs (July 2017). 

Madawi Al-Rasheed, 'Saudi regime resilience after the 2011 Arab popular uprisings', Contemporary Arab Affairs 9/1 (November 2016), pp. 13-26.

Madawi Al-Rasheed, Muted Modernists: The Struggle over Divine Politics in Saudi Arabia (London/New York: Hurst/Oxford UP, 2015). 

Madawi Al-Rasheed, 'Is it always good to be King? Saudi regime resilience after the 2011 Arab popular uprisings', LSE Middle East Centre Paper Series 12 (December 2015). 

Principal Investigator