International Teachers of English in the ‘New’ Middle East: Saudi Arabia in Focus

The term Islam in Arabic means ‘مﻼﺳ’, i.e. ‘peace’ in English. The actual religion in terms of the God is Islam – submission to his will. Islam is a religious practice revealed by the Prophet Mohammed Peace Be Upon Him since 1816 (Cook et al., 2010). Central to this notion of Islam is ‘peace’ with the ‘self’ and the ‘other’. The name of Islam is not attached to a particular ethnic group or society, nor is it related to a certain time or place. Instead, it is related ‘to the central ideas of the religion’ (Nasr, 2004). Today, Islam is considered