Saudi Arabia in transition : insights on social, political, economic and religious change

Saudi Arabia in transition : insights on social, political, economic and religious change / edited by Bernard Haykel (Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University), Thomas Hegghammer (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment), Stéphane Lacroix (Sciences Po, Paris).

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Other Authors: Haykel, Bernard, 1968-, Hegghammer, Thomas, Lacroix, Stéphane, 1978-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Social change > Saudi Arabia.
Islam > Social aspects > Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia > Social conditions.
Saudi Arabia > Politics and government > 1982-
Saudi Arabia > Economic conditions.
Saudi Arabia > Religion.
Holy Cross Note:"Reprinted 2016" -- Title page verso.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / Bernard Haykel, Thomas Hegghammer and Stephane Lacroix
  • Part I. Politics
  • 2. Rentier exceptionalism : oil and political mobilization in Saudi Arabia / Gregory Gause
  • 3. The dogma of development : technopolitics and power in Saudi Arabia / Toby Jones
  • 4. Enforcing the state's Islam : the functioning of the committee of senior scholars / Nabil Mouline
  • Part II. Oil
  • 5. Saudi Arabia and the world oil market / Giacomo Luciani
  • 6. The political economy of regional development in post-World War II Saudi Arabia / Steffen Hertog
  • 7. Oil in Saudi Arabian culture and politics : from tribal poets to Al-Qaeda's ideologues / Bernard Haykel
  • Part III. Islam and Islamism
  • 8. From Wahhabi to Salafi / David Commins
  • 9. Understanding stability and dissent in the kingdom : the role of the jama'at in Saudi politics / Stéphane Lacroix
  • 10. The struggle for authority : the Shaykhs of Jihadi-Salafism in Saudi Arabia, 1997-2003 / Saud al-Sarhan
  • 11. "Classical" and "global" jihadism in Saudi Arabia / Thomas Hegghammer
  • Part IV. Social Change
  • 12. Raiders and traders : a poet's lament of the end of the Bedouin heroic age / Abd al-Aziz H. Al Fahad
  • 13. Rootless trees : genealogical politics in Saudi Arabia / Abd al-Aziz H. Al Fahad
  • 14. Caught between religion and state : women in Saudi Arabia / Madawi al-Rasheed
  • 15. Engendering Saudi consumerism : a study of young women's practices in Riyadh's shopping malls / Amélie Le Renard.

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