Salman's legacy : the dilemmas of a new era in Saudi Arabia / Madawi Al-Rasheed, editor.

Publication:

[New York, New York] : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Format/Description:

Book
xiii, 367 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subjects:

Salmān ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz, King of Saudi Arabia, 1935-
Saudi Arabia -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
Saudi Arabia -- History -- 21st century.

Contents:

Introduction: the dilemmas of a new era
Part I. State and society
Saudi regime stability and challenges
Mystique of monarchy: the magic of royal succession in Saudi Arabia
Challenges to the Saudi distributional state in the age of austerity
Beyond sectarianism and ideology: regionalism and collective political action in Saudi Arabia
From Hasm to Hazm: Saudi feminism beyond patriarchal bargaining
Part II. Saudi Arabia and transnational Salafiyya
Producing Salafism: from invented tradition to state Agitprop
Transnational religious community and the Salafi mission
Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia, and the Islamic state: 'Abdullah ibn Jibrin and Turki al-Bin'ali
Parricide in the kingdom: genealogy, nationalism, and the Islamic state challenge
Part III. Foreign relations
Saudi Arabia and the Cold War
King Salman and his son: winning the USA, losing the rest
China's 'rise' in the Gulf: a Saudi perspective.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-349) and index.

Contributor:

Al-Rasheed, Madawi, editor.

ISBN:

0190901748
9780190901745

OCLC:

1019747735

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