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In one country, Pakistan, in a single year, (1983), > "the money sent home by Gulf emigrants amounted to $3 billion, compared with > a total of $735 million given to the nation in foreign aid. .... The > underpaid petty functionary of yore could now drive back to his hometown at > the wheel of a foreign car, build himself a house in a residential suburb, > and settle down to invest his savings or engage in trade.... he owed nothing > to his home state, where he could never have earned enough to afford such > luxuries." Muslims who had moved to Saudi Arabia, or other "oil-rich monarchies of the peninsula" to work, often returned to their poor home country following religious practice more intensely, particularly practices of Wahhabi Muslims. Having "grown rich in this Wahhabi milieu" it was not surprising that the returning Muslims believed there was a connection between that milieu and "their material prosperity", and that on return they followed religious practices more intensely and that those practices followed tenets of Wahhabism.
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In one country, Pakistan, in a single year, (1983), > "the money sent home by Gulf emigrants amounted to $3 billion, compared with > a total of $735 million given to the nation in foreign aid.... The underpaid > petty functionary of yore could now drive back to his hometown at the wheel > of a foreign car, build himself a house in a residential suburb, and settle > down to invest his savings or engage in trade... he owed nothing to his home > state, where he could never have earned enough to afford such luxuries." Muslims who had moved to Saudi Arabia, or other "oil-rich monarchies of the peninsula" to work, often returned to their poor home country following religious practice more intensely, particularly practices of Wahhabi Muslims. Having "grown rich in this Wahhabi milieu," it was not surprising that the returning Muslims believed that there was a connection between that milieu and "their material prosperity" and that when they returned, they followed religious practices more intensely, which followed Wahhabi tenants. Kepel gives examples of migrant workers returning home with new affluence, asking to be addressed by servants as "hajja" rather than "Madame" (the old bourgeois custom).
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