Author: Courtney Jean FreerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190861991
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
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 Islamserves as a prominent voice and tool to promote more strictly political, and often populist or reformist, views supported by many Gulf citizens