Saudi Arabia Backgrounder: who are the Islamists?
ICG MIddle East report No 31.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Saudi Arabia is at a critical stage in both its struggle against terrorism and its on-again, off-again efforts at reform, and Islamism is at the heart of both. The success or failure of the moderate Islamists in providing social, religious and political responses to the country's predicament will, probably as much as anything, determine the ultimate fate of their radical rivals. (pdf file)
The link address is: http://www.icg.org/library/documents/middle_east___north_africa/iraq_iran_gulf/31_saudi_arabia_backgrounder.pdf