The growing salience of moderate Islam

• Main Authors: Mohamed Bin Ali, Muhammad Haziq Jani
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Social Sciences; Country and Region Studies; Religion in Contemporary Society
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174592
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In steering his country towards an economy more broadly based on foreign direct investments and less reliant on oil, Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman has transformed the austere Wahhabi form of Islam in Saudi Arabia into a more moderate transnational variety. Other countries in the Middle East and S...