Laila Makboul

• Makboul, Laila (2022). Religiøse reformer og kampen om Saudi-Arabias framtid. In Thorbjørnsrud, Berit Synnøve & Nordenson, Jon (Ed.), Globale Veikryss. Golfmonarkiene i endring. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202757090. p. 121–144.

• Makboul, L. (2020). Going Online. Saudi Female Intellectual Preachers in the New Media. In S. Stjernholm & E. Özdalga (Eds.), Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond: Historical and Contemporary Case Studies: Edinburgh University Press.

• Makboul, L. (2019). Public piety and the politics of preaching among female preachers in Riyadh In S. al-Sarhan (Ed.), Political quietism in Islam. Sunni and Shi'i thought and practice. London: I.B. Tauris.

• Makboul, L. (2017). Beyond Preaching Women: Saudi Dāʿiyāt and Their Engagement in the Public Sphere. Die Welt des Islams, 57(3-4), 303-328.

• Makboul, Laila (2022). Religiøse reformer og kampen om Saudi-Arabias framtid. In Thorbjørnsrud, Berit Synnøve & Nordenson, Jon (Ed.), Globale Veikryss. Golfmonarkiene i endring. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202757090. p. 121–144.
• Makboul, Laila (2020). Going Online. Saudi Female Intellectual Preachers in the New Media. In Stjernholm, Simon & Özdalga, Elisabeth (Ed.), Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond: Historical and Contemporary Case Studies.. Edinburgh University Press. ISSN 9781474467476.
• Makboul, Laila (2019). Public Piety and the Politics of Preaching Among Female Preachers in Riyadh. In Al-Sarhan, Saud (Eds.), Political Quietism in Islam: Sunni and Shi’i Practice and Thought.. I.B. Tauris. ISSN 9781838602192.
• Makboul, Laila (2017). Beyond Preaching Women: Saudi Dāʿiyāt and Their Engagement in the Public Sphere. Die Welt des Islams: International Journal for the Study of Modern Islam. ISSN 0043-2539. 57(3-4), p. 303–328. doi: 10.1163/15700607-05734p03. Full text in Research Archive

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• Makboul, Laila (2019). Religion, makt og kampen om Saudi Arabias fremtid. Den norske atlanterhavskomite, Ukens analyse.
• Makboul, Laila & Almestad, Ida Nicolaisen (2018). Riyadh. Arkaisk familiesete med reformambisjoner. In Butenschøn, Nils A (Eds.), Brennpunkt Midtøsten. Byene som prisme. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 978-82-15-02812-5. p. 131–149.
• Selstø, Ragnhild Sofie & Makboul, Laila (2017). Ny, nasjonal plan skal løfte Saudi-Arabia.
• Pileberg, Silje & Makboul, Laila (2017). Populære saudiske kvinner vil ha tradisjonelle kjønnsroller. [Internet]. Forskning.no.
• Haakonsen, Andreas & Makboul, Laila (2017). Slik ble predikanten Twitter-dronning. [Newspaper]. Vårt Land.
• Nåvik, Margrete & Makboul, Laila (2017). Frigjort twitterdronning med niqab. [Radio]. NRK P1 - Mellom himmel og jord .
• Makboul, Laila (2017). "Terrorens rike. Hvordan en voldelig sekt fra en arabiske ørken radikaliserte islam" [bok], anmeldt av Laila Makboul. Babylon - Nordisk tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier. ISSN 1503-5727. 1(1), p. 76–77.
• Bendiksen, Kristian & Makboul, Laila (2017). Hverdagsliv for kvinner i Saudi-Arabia. [Radio]. Studio 2 - P2.
• Castello, Claudio & Makboul, Laila (2017). Forsker på kvinnekamp i Saudi-Arabia. [Newspaper]. Utrop.
• Makboul, Laila (2016). Public piety: Female preachers in Saudi Arabia. The New Middle East Blog.
• Makboul, Laila (2015). The loss of a father and the rebirth of a new – seen from inside the Kingdom. The New Middle East Blog.
• Makboul, Laila (2015). Kampen om wahhabismen. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
• Makboul, Laila (2015). «Drittlandet» Saudi-Arabia. NRK Ytring.
• Makboul, Laila (2019). Pious Power: Epistemology, Discourses and Practices of Female Intellectual Preachers in Saudi Arabia. 07 Gruppen. Show summary

  This study seeks to explore current female intellectual preachers in Saudi Arabia, known as al-dāʿiyāt al-muthaqqafāt. These women stand out from other female preachers in that they make use of their cultural, religious and intellectual capital to engage in the public sphere. Analysing their historical emergence, their fields of engagement and their epistemology, I seek to understand their presence in contemporary Saudi Arabia and what they can tell us about Islamist women’s engagement in religious, cultural, social and political domains. To include both the capacities of the subjects themselves and the structures within which they operate, I approach dāʿiyāt muthaqqafāt from a holistic perspective, guided by their own perception of Islamic culture as a comprehensive tradition. Contrary to the prevalent scholarly literature on female preachers, I argue that these women actively engage in spaces and discourses beyond female-related issues. Through the concepts of daʿwa (preaching) and thaqāfa (culture), I explore how historical, economic, social and political contexts have influenced the interpretation of their role in the society. Perceiving their presence as necessary for cultivating pious subjects, they have utilised daʿwa to extend their presence in the public sphere as preachers. Understanding Islam as a comprehensive religion that refuses any compartmentalization into a secularized notion of a “religious sphere”, thaqāfa has enabled their public intervention as intellectuals in issues beyond those specific to religion. Although dāʿiyāt muthaqqafāt construct their own emancipatory discourses and practices, many of their modalities of agency have been framed as a struggle against a perceived Western culture. Consequently, this study highlights how their trajectory is intimately intertwined with the perceived Western “otherness” that they seek to counter. In the process of mirroring themselves against the so-called West, they have ultimately allowed for a considerable degree of appropriation.

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