Miriam R. Lowi

Refining the Common Good

Oil, Islam and Politics in Gulf Monarchies

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009463287
• ISBN-10: 1009463284
• Artikelnr.: 70898563

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.