Political Quietism in Islam

Saud al-Sarhan (PhD, University of Exeter) is Secretary General at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was previously the Director of Research at KFCRIS. He is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at Exeter University, UK, an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at King’s College London, and a Distinguished International Affairs Fellow of the National Council on US-Arab Relations, USA.

Introduction
Saud al-Sarhan, The King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Saudi Arabia; and Faisal Abullhassan, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Part I – The Concept of Political Quietism: Its Problematics and the Islamic Context
1 – Making Sense of ‘Political Quietism’—An Analytical Intervention
Jan-Peter Hartung, University of Göttingen, Germany
2 – Expressions of Political Quietism in Islamic History
Ebrahim Moosa, University of Notre Dame, USA; and Nicholas Roberts, Sewanee: The University of the South, USA
Part II – Political Quietism in Classical Islam
3 – The Rightly-Guided Caliphs: The Range of Views Preserved in Hadith
Robert Gleave, University of Exeter, UK; and Christopher Melchert, University of Oxford, UK
4 – “Patience in Our Situation Is Better than Sedition”: The Shift to Political Quietism in the Sunni Tradition
Saud al-Sarhan, The King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Saudi Arabia
5 – Quietism and Political Legitimacy in Imami Shi'i Jurisprudence: al-Sharif al-Murtada’s Treatise on the Legality of Working for the Government Reconsidered
Robert Gleave, University of Exeter, UK
Part III – Political Quietism in Modern and Contemporary Islamic Thought
6 – “I’m Only a Village Farmer and a Dervish’: Between Political Quietism and Spiritual Leadership: Early Modern Shi'i Sufism and the Challenge of Modernity
Alessandro Cancian, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK
7 – Legal Discourses on Hijra in the Caucasus after the Fall of the Caucasus Imamate: Risalat al-sharifa by the Dagestani Scholar 'Abd al-Rahman al-Thughuri
Mogamed Gizbulaev, Princeton University, USA
8 – Constitutionalism as Quietist Strategy: The Case of Tunisia
Jeremy Kleidosty, University of Helsinki, Finland
9 – “Dropping a Thick Curtain of Forgetting and Disregard”: Modern Shi'i Quietism Beyond Politics
Rainer Brunner, The French National Center for Scientific Research, France
10 – Public Piety and the Politics of Preaching Among Female Preachers in Riyadh
Laila Makboul, University of Oslo, Norway
11 – The Gülen Movement in Azerbaijan: Political Quietism or Taqiyya?
Fuad Aliyve, ADA University, Azerbaijan
12 – The Neo-Traditionalist Critique of Modernity and the Production of Political Quietism
Walaa Quisay, University of Oxford, UK