Refining the Common Good
Oil, Islam and Politics in Gulf Monarchies
Series: Cambridge Middle East Studies;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 21 November 2024
- ISBN 9781009463317
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages228 pages
- Size 235x159x18 mm
- Weight 460 g
- Language English 605
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Short description:
This study examines how Arab Gulf monarchies harness both oil revenues and Islamic doctrine to achieve their political goals.
MoreLong description:
How has Islam as a set of beliefs and practices shaped the allocation of oil revenues in Arab Gulf monarchies? In turn, how has oil wealth impacted the role of Islamic doctrine in politics? Refining the Common Good explores the relationship between Islamic norms and the circulation of oil wealth in Gulf monarchies. The study demonstrates how both oil (revenues) and Islam (as doctrine) are manipulated as tools of state power, and how religious norms are refined for the sake of achieving narrow secular interests. Miriam R. Lowi examines different institutionalized practices financed by hydrocarbon revenues and sanctioned, either implicitly or explicitly, by Islam, and uses evidence from Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia to show how these practices are infused with political purpose. The dynamic relationship between oil wealth and Islamic doctrine is exploited to contribute to the management and control of society, and the consolidation of dynastic autocracy.
'Lowi explores the material and the moral sides of Gulf politics, showing how they are linked through the political process in general and by regime strategies and tactics in particular.' Nathan J. Brown, George Washington University
Table 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.
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