Saudi Arabia in Transition

This book presents new insights and the most up-to-date research on Saudi Arabia's social, cultural, economic and political dynamics.

1. Introduction Bernard Haykel, Thomas Hegghammer and Stéphane Lacroix; Part I. Politics: 2. Rentier exceptionalism: oil and political mobilization in Saudi Arabia Gregory Gause; 3. The dogma of development: technopolitics and power in Saudi Arabia Toby Jones; 4. Enforcing the state's Islam: the functioning of the committee of senior scholars Nabil Mouline; Part II. Oil: 5. Saudi Arabia and the world oil market Giacomo Luciani; 6. The political economy of regional development in post-World War II Saudi Arabia Steffen Hertog; 7. Oil in Saudi Arabian culture and politics: from tribal poets to Al-Qaeda's ideologues Bernard Haykel; Part III. Islam and Islamism: 8. From Wahhabi to Salafi David Commins; 9. Understanding stability and dissent in the kingdom: the role of the jama'at in Saudi politics Stéphane Lacroix; 10. The struggle for authority: the Shaykhs of Jihadi-Salafism in Saudi Arabia, 1997-2003 Saud al-Sarhan; 11. 'Classical' and 'global' jihadism in Saudi Arabia Thomas Hegghammer; Part IV. Social Change: 12. Raiders and traders: a poet's lament of the end of the Bedouin heroic age Abd al-Aziz H. Al Fahad; 13. Rootless trees: genealogical politics in Saudi Arabia Abd al-Aziz H. Al Fahad; 14. Caught between religion and state: women in Saudi Arabia Madawi al-Rasheed; 15. Engendering Saudi consumerism: a study of young women's practices in Riyadh's shopping malls Amélie Le Renard.