Refining the Common Good - Oil, Islam and Politics in Gulf Monarchies

"This innovative study explores a novel dimension of elite politics in Arab Gulf monarchies where both oil and Islam are ubiquitous: how rulers exploit both oil revenues and Islamic norms to manage and control their populations, build community, and protect and enrich dynastic autocracies"--

List of contents

1. Oil and Islam in the Gulf; 2. Islamic norms, interpretations, applications; 3. The state and the political economy of distribution; 4. Society responds; 5. Imported labor: building/appeasing the nation; 6. Charity as politics 'writ small'; 7. Islamic banking and finance: a political economy of accumulation; 8. Reflections on Islam and politics in the oil era.

About the author

Miriam R. Lowi is Professor in the Department of Political Science at The College of New Jersey. She is the author of Oil Wealth and the Poverty of Politics: Algeria Compared (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Water and Power: the Politics of a Scarce Resource in the Jordan River Basin (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Summary

This innovative study explores a novel dimension of elite politics in Arab Gulf monarchies where both oil and Islam are ubiquitous: how rulers exploit both oil revenues and Islamic norms to manage and control their populations, build community, and protect and enrich dynastic autocracies.

Foreword

This study examines how Arab Gulf monarchies harness both oil revenues and Islamic doctrine to achieve their political goals.

Product details

• Authors: Miriam R. Lowi, Miriam R. (The College of New Jersey) Lowi, Lowi Miriam R.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2024
• EAN: 9781009463317
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0946331-7
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Cambridge Middle East Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Islam, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, RELIGION / Islam / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Political structure & processes, Political Economy, Arabian Peninsula, Religious and theocratic ideologies, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Political structure and processes, Religious & theocratic ideologies