Refining the Common Good: Oil, Islam and Politics in Gulf Monarchies

by Miriam R. Lowi

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009463314
• ISBN13: 9781009463317
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"