Graveyard of clerics: everyday activism in Saudi Arabia.

The article focuses on "Graveyard of Clerics," an ethnographic study of Islamic activism in Saudi Arabia, exploring how political activism unfolds within a highly repressive and surveilled society. The book examines the Islamic Awakening (Sahwa) movement since the 1970s, highlighting how activists engage in everyday, often subtle practices—such as attending study circles, driving, and participating in summer camps—to sustain public life and resist repression. It emphasizes the role of suburbanization and cars as key social units for activism, contrasting with family-based models elsewhere, and details the organizational structures that enabled Islamic activists to succeed in the 2005 municipal elections. The work contributes to anthropological and sociological understandings of Islam and political activism in the Middle East by providing a nuanced, ground-level perspective on Saudi activists' lived experiences.