Saudi Arabia in transition : insights on social, political, economic and religious change
Making sense of Saudi Arabia is crucially important today. The kingdom's western province contains the heart of Islam, and it is the United States' closest Arab ally and the largest producer of oil in the world. However, the country is undergoing rapid change: its aged leadership is ceding...
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • Saudi Arabia in transition, insights on social, political, economic and religious change, edited by Bernard Haykel, Thomas Hegghammer, Stéphane Lacroix, 2015, New York (N.Y.), Cambridge university press, 1 vol. (VII-351 p.), 978-1-10-700629-4 |
Sisällysluettelo:
- 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