Rentier Islamism

Auteur
Courtney Freer is a Research Officer at the Kuwait Programme at London School of Economics and Political Science, where her work focuses on the domestic politics of the Gulf states. She has published in the International Journal of Middle East Studies and Middle Eastern Studies.

Texte du rabat

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 Islam serves as a prominent voice and tool to promote more strictly political, and often populist or reformist, views supported by many Gulf citizens.

Contenu

• Introduction - Uncharted Territory: Political Islam and Rentier States

• Part I: Origins

• Chapter Two - No Taxation, No Representation?: Political Opposition in Rentier States and the Origins of Muslim Brotherhood Movements in the Gulf

• Chapter Three - Systems of Governance and Politics of Opposition in the Super-Rentiers

• Part II: Rise and Fall

• Chapter Four - Education and Influence: Origins of Rentier Islamism

• Chapter Five - Politicians or Preachers?: The Development of Rentier Islamist Agendas in a Post-Arab Nationalist Era

• Part III: Modern Rentier Islamism

• Chapter Six - Rentier Islamism after Pan-Arabism

• Chapter Seven - Challenges and Opposition in the 21st Century

• Chapter Eight - Conclusion: Rentier Islamism: Explaining Ikhwan Politics in the Super-Rentiers

• Notes

• References

• Index