Reddit reviews Awakening Islam: The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia
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Excellent post, this book was a really eye opener for me, it describes a political movement that developed in Saudi from the 1970s onwards, the insightfulness came from the picture it paints of saudi society, it is really very nuanced
https://www.amazon.com/Awakening-Islam-Politics-Religious-Contemporary/dp/0674049640
The time you're referring to is called "sahwa" in Arabic, means awakening. Basically, it describes a phenomenon where Saudi got very religious around the 80's due to some social and political factors. There's a good book that documents that period, I hope this is the english translation of it (I read it in Arabic so I'm not sure of what the English title is)
Islamism is a very broad tent, not all islamists are violent and many want to live in normal democratic societies with civil rights. I can recommend some good books on the subject
Islamism and Democracy in India
https://press.princeton.edu/titles/9065.html
Awakening Islam
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Awakening-Islam-Religious-Dissent-Contemporary/dp/0674049640
The Islamist
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/may/06/politics?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard
Muted modernists
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2016/07/27/book-review-muted-modernists-the-struggle-over-divine-politics-in-saudi-arabia-by-madawi-al-rasheed/