Introduction: Unraveling the Myths - the Editors. Wahhabism: Religious Movement and Political Ideology. Wahhabism and the Question of Religious Tolerance - N.J. DeLong-Bas. Wahhabism as an Ideology of State Formation - K.S. Al-Dakhil.

Contestation and Authority in Wahhabi Polemics - D. Commins. Wahhabism and the Saudi State. The Wahhabi Origins of the Contemporary Saudi State - J.S. Habib. The Annexation of the Hijaz - W. Ochsenwald.

State Power, Religious Privilege, and the Myths About Political Reform - G. Okruhlik. Religious Revivalism and Its Challenge to the Saudi Regime - T.C. Jones. Saudi-US Relations. A Most Improbable Alliance: Placing Interests Over Ideology - T.W.

Lippman. Official Wahhabism and the Sanctioning of Saudi-US Relations - F.G. Gause, III. Conclusion. The Impact of the Wahhabi Tradition - J.O. Voll.