Handbook of Gerontology or The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia

Handbook of Gerontology: Evidence-Based Approaches to Theory, Practice, and Policy

Author: Catherine N Dulmus

A multidisciplinary resource that combines the latest research with the best practices for working with older adults

The Handbook of Gerontology: Evidence-Based Approaches to Theory, Practice, and Policy provides an essential source of important theoretical and applied information on gerontology for all mental health professionals interested in optimizing the health and well-being of older adults. Interdisciplinary and incorporating the most current evidence-based practices in its focus, this timely book considers the many factors that affect the way this growing population experiences the world-and provides a positive and proactive guide to administering care.

Integrating the latest research findings with important practice implications for working with an older client population, the Handbook of Gerontology draws on a multidisciplinary team of expert contributors who provide coverage and insight into a diverse range of topics, including:

• A global perspective on aging

• Elder abuse

• Family caregiving

• Parenting grandchildren

• Depression

• Substance abuse

• Alzheimer's disease

• Successful aging and personality

• Biological and cognitive aspects and theories of aging

An exceptional resource for practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and students, the Handbook of Gerontology is essential reading for anyone who works with older adults.

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The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia (Library of Modern Middle East Studies Series)

Author: David Commins

This is a definitive and authoritative account of the conservative interpretation of Islam that is the official creed of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Wahhabism. Muslim critics have dismissed it as a heretical innovation that manipulated a backward people to gain political control. David Commins dismisses the clichés, examines the nature of Wahhabism, and offers original findings as to how Wahhabism rose to dominance in Arabia and projected its influence in the Muslim world. He also assesses the challenges that it faces from radical militants within the Kingdom.

Table of Contents:

1	Islam began as a stranger and will return as a stranger	7
2	Holding fast against idolatry	40
3	Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud and the taming of Wahhabi zeal	71
4	Wahhabism in a modern state	104
5	The Wahhabi mission and Islamic revivalism	130
6	Challenges to Wahhabi hegemony	155
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