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Saudi Arabia : the shape of a client feudalism / Geoff Simons.
Van Pelt Library JC599.S33 S58 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simons, Geoff, 1939-2011.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human rights--Saudi Arabia.
- Human rights.
- Saudi Arabia.
- Human rights--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 415 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- Geoff Simons describes the current human-rights situation in Saudi Arabia with reference to corruption, the treatment of dissidents, the penal system, the suppression of women, slavery and other aspects. A detailed history, from pre-Islamic times to the present, is provided, with attention to the influence of Mohammed, the Saudi ascendancy, the role of the West, the discovery of oil and the wars in the region. Attention is also given to the various economic, political, and religious problems that face the Saudi regime and the Saudi response.
- Contents:
- Part I The Feudal Frame 1
- 1 Islam, Law and Human Rights 3
- The Human Rights Framework 4
- The Islamic Source 8
- The Sharia Imperative 16
- The Closed Society 20
- The Corrupt Culture 26
- The Treatment of Dissidents 32
- The Practical Penology 39
- The Sexual Suppression 50
- The Survival of Slavery 62
- Part II The History 69
- 2 Religious Roots 71
- The Early Arabians 73
- The Pagan Culture 79
- Muhammed 85
- The Context 85
- The Life 90
- A Prophet? 98
- The Holy Koran 103
- The Islamic Frame 108
- 3 Conquest and Decline 111
- The Arab Expansion 112
- From Umayyad to Abbasid 119
- The Arab Decline 130
- The Ottoman Era 137
- 4 Saudi Ascendancy 144
- The Wahhabist Soul 145
- The Saudi Ascendancy 149
- Britain and the Arab Revolt 173
- Towards Saudi Arabia 177
- 5 The Oil State 185
- Ibn Saud
- The Final Years 186
- The Dynasty Continues 196
- King Saud 196
- King Faisal 200
- King Khaled 205
- King Fahd 208
- The Britain Factor 210
- The US Factor 213
- Black Gold 221
- The Yemen Wars
- I 226
- The Arab
- Israeli Wars 231
- Part III The Modern Client 235
- 6 Wars, Rumours of Wars 237
- The Arms Ploy 241
- The Iran
- Iraq War (1980-8) 255
- The 1991 Gulf War 262
- II 274
- 7 The Gathering Clouds 280
- Problems 281
- An Economic Predicament? 287
- Feudalism or Change? 300
- Custodian of Islam? 308
- The Dissident Revolt 316
- The Violent Option 325
- I International Human Rights Instruments Signed or Ratified by Arab and Islamic Countries but not by Saudi Arabia 336
- II The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam 338
- III Articles of Government 344
- IV Articles of the Shura (Consultative Council) 354
- V Council of Ministers
- Rules 359.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-395) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312215509
- OCLC:
- 38738925
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