EVENT

STATE AND RELIGION IN SAUDI ARABIA

Private: Walter Posch in conversation with Guido Steinberg
LOCATION:
Bruno Kreisky Forum
Seminar
Conference

Written registration is required for participation.
The 2 G rule (vaccinated or recovered) and a maximum of 70 participants apply.

Walter Posch in conversation with Guido Steinberg

STATE AND RELIGION IN SAUDI ARABIA
History and present of Wahhabism

The Wahhabis have dominated Saudi Arabia's religious policy for more than 250 years, imposing their interpretation of Islam in the country and exporting it abroad. Since 2017, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman has been endeavouring to push back the influence of the Wahhabi religious scholars and reform the state, economy and society. The lecture deals with the past and present of the relationship between religion and politics in Saudi Arabia.

Guido Steinberg, Islamic scholar and author, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Berlin
Walter Posch, Senior Fellow, Institute for Peacekeeping and Conflict Management (IFK), National Defence Academy

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