湾岸王政諸国における石油、イスラーム、政治 Refining the Common Good : Oil, Islam and Politics in Gulf Monarchies (Cambridge Middle East Studies)

Lowi, Miriam R.

Cambridge University Press（2024/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 228 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009463317
• DDC分類 322.109536

Full 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.

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.