Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Saudi Sufism in the Context of Wahhabi Dogma and State Power 2 Sufism as a Discursive Tradition 3 Classical and Contemporary Wahhabism 4 Sources Employed in This Book1 The Standing Shrine 1 The Prophet''s Tomb as Unfinished Reform 2 Ibn Taymiyya and Early Wahhabi Scholars on the Tomb of the Prophet 3 Modern-Day Wahhabi Teachings on the Tomb of the Prophet 4 Wahhabi Teachings on Tombs, Istighatha , and Ziyara of the Tomb of the Prophet 5 Excessive veneration of the Prophet: A Christian-Like Problem?2 The Polemical Sufi Teacher 1 Muammad Alawi al-Maliki: The Life of a Sufi Scholar in Saudi Arabia 2 Al-Maliki''s Rila s, Isnad s, and Ijaza s 3 Al-Maliki''s Students and Writings 4 The Intermediary Life of the Prophet ( al-ayat al-barzakhiyya ) in Mafahim 5 Al-Maliki''s Textual Argumentation of Intercession 6 Re-Affirming Divine Sovereignty: The Charge of ghuluww and the Prophet''s Attributes 7 Al-Maliki on the Visitation and the Preservation of the Tomb of the Prophet3 Facing the Wahhabi Orthodoxy 1 Wahhabi Orthodoxy and Saudi Political Rule 2 The Institutions of Wahhabi Orthodoxy 3 The Events of 1979 and the Appeal to Wahhabi Orthodoxy in Times of Crisis 4 Early Wahhabi Views on Sufism 5 Late Wahhabi Views on Sufism 6 Sufism as the Other 7 Refutation of al-Maliki by the Committee of Senior Scholars 8 The Wahhabi Scholarly Refutation of al-Maliki 9 The Refutation of Mafahim 10 The Refutation from al-awa4 The Memory of the Meccan School 1 Al-Maliki as Heir of the Meccan School 2 The Men of Meccan Isnad s Prior to the Establishment of the Saudi State 3 The Meccan School in a Changing Political Environment 4 Saudi Rule and the Public Demise of the Meccan School 5 Wahhabism as Breaking the Chain of Connection to the Prophet 6 The Regionalist Dimensions of the Debate on Sufism in Saudi Arabia 7 The Regional Dimension of the Debate on Sufism in Saudi Arabia 8 Takfir in Wahhabi Teachings 9 The Critique of Takfir in Mafahim and the Response of ali al-Shaykh 10 Al-Maliki''s Tadhir and the Modern Politicization of Takfir in Saudi Arabia 11 The Path towards the National Dialogue in 2003 12 The Legacy of al-Maliki5 The Ba Alawi Sayyids in Modern Saudi Arabia 1 Narratives of Exile and Preaching in Ba Alawi Communal Consciousness 2 Alawi Gathering Spaces and Corresponding Ethics 3 Female Ethical Concerns in Contemporary Ba Alawi Teachings 4 Alawi Blood Genealogies and Notions of Communal Balance 5 An Exploration of the Alawi Silsila 6 The Alawi Path of the Ancestors ( Salaf ) 7 Biography and Prosopography as Tools of Tradition 8 Amad Mashhur al-addad: The Exemplary Caller unto God6 Authority, Accommodation, and Pedagogy in the Majlis 1 Knowledge and Authority in Contemporary Sufi Teaching in Saudi Arabia 2 Contemporary Traditionalist Construction of Authority 3 The New Media and the New Spaces of Traditionalist Expansion 4 Wahhabi Attacks against al-Jifri and the New Spaces of Religious Contestation 5 The Search for Sectarian Coexistence after the National Dialogue 6 Abdullah Fadaq as the Public Face of Saudi Sufism 7 Sufi Pedagogy in Contemporary Saudi Arabia 8 Hadith Study in Contemporary Sufi Gatherings in the ijaz 9 Emulating, Connecting with, and Attaining a Vision of the Prophet 10 The Pedagogical, Spiritual, and Cultural Dimension of ijazi Nashid 7 The Majlis is Closed 1 The Rise of MBS and International Anti-Revolutionary Ecumenism 2 The Politics Traditionalism: Is There One? 3 The Reconfiguration of the Role of Religion in KSA 4 The Wahhabization of a Shrinking Religious Field at the Expense of Religious Pluralism Conclusions Bibliography Index.