The Saudi Social Awakening: Explaining Rapid Social Change

Masooda Bano is Professor of Development Studies and Senior Golding Fellow at Brasenose College, University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of Female Islamic Education Movements (2017), The Rational Believer (2012), Breakdown in Pakistan (2012) and co-author of Religion in Development (2009). She is currently directing a five-year major research project entitled 'Changing Structures of Islamic Authority and Consequences for Social Change - A Transnational Review' supported by the European Research Council.