Description
Summary: | While scholars have long looked at the role of political Islam in the Middle East, it has been assumed that domestic politics in the wealthy monarchical states of the Arabian Gulf, so-called ""rentier states"" where taxes are very low and oil wealth subsidizes the needs of citizens, are largely unaffected by such movements. Using contemporary history and original empirical research, Courtney Freer updates traditional rentier state theory and argues that political Islam serves as a prominent voice and tool to promote more strictly political, and often populist or reformist, views supported by m
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 281 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780190862008 0190862009 9780190862022 0190862025 |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 26, 2018). |