“...The Salafi movement as it has developed in Yemen since the early 1980s has long been described as essentially quietist: Salafi leaders and activists in the...”

“...It is generally assumed that contemporary religious identities in Yemen are more or less equally divided between two Islamic sects: Shiite Zaydism and Sunni...”

“...Friday Seminar at the University of Oslo, Centre for Islamic and Middle East Studies (CIMS) with Laurent Bonnefoy, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches...”

“...This book is the result of extensive research and field work carried out by the author in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. It offers an original approach to Salafism...”

“...Monographs in social sciences dealing with Soqotra are few. Their number appears inversely proportional to the fascination that this Yemeni archipelago...”

“...Gabriele Vom Bruck has long been a remarkable analyst of social dynamics within Zaydi Hashemite families in Yemen. Her previous volume Islam, Memory and...”

“...Gabriele Vom Bruck has long been a remarkable analyst of social dynamics within Zaydi Hashemite families in Yemen. Her previous volume Islam, Memory and...”

“...Arabian Humanities in its eleventh issue reasserts the relevance of comparative studies on the Arabian Peninsula with a focus on the construction of urban...”

“...For a political scientist, venturing into the seven chapters of Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula may at first be seen as quite an endeavor. To be honest, I...”