Kingdom without borders : Saudi political, religious and media frontiers / Madawi Al-Rasheed, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Al-Rasheed, Madawi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic fundamentalism.

Religion and politics.

Saudi Arabia--Politics and government--1932-.

Saudi Arabia.

Politics and government.

Saudi Arabia--Foreign relations--1932-.

International relations.

Religion and politics--Saudi Arabia.

Islamic fundamentalism--Saudi Arabia.

Physical Description:

xii, 383 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2008]

Contents:

Introduction : an assessment of Saudi political, religious and media expansion / Madawi Al-Rasheed

Politics beyond frontiers. Between imara, empire and oil : Saudis in the frontier society of the Persian Gulf / Nelida Fuccaro

Saudi expansion : the Lebanese connection, 1924-1952 / Fawwaz Traboulsi

Determinants and characteristics of Saudi role in Lebanon : the post-civil war years / As'ad Abu Khalil

Ambivalent ally : Saudi Arabia and the 'war on terror' / Roger Hardy

Producing 'reformed Islam' : a Saudi contribution to the US projects of global governance / Salwa Ismail

Kingdom with borders : the political economy of Saudi-European relations / Paul Aarts, Roos Meertens and Joris van Duijne

The prospects and limits of religious expansion. The refutation of Wahhabism in Arabic sources, 1745-1932 / Hamadi Redissi

The role of religious ideology in the expansionist policies of Saudi Arabia / Saeed Shehabi

The minaret and the palace : obedience at home and rebellion abroad / Madawi Al-Rasheed

Yusuf al-Uyairi and the transnationalisation of Saudi jihadism / Roel Meijer

Salafism in Yemen : a 'Saudisation'? / Laurent Bonnefoy

Saudi expansion, salafi campaign and Arabised Islam in Indonesia / Noorhaidi Hasan

The 'Arab' in global militancy / Faisal Devji

Saudi Arabian expansion in the United States : half-hearted missionary work meets rock-solid resistance / Eleanor Abdella Doumato

The media and multiple actors. Saudi Arabia's media mask / Mai Yamani

Maintaining Saudi Arabia's cordon sanitaire in the Arab media / Andrew Hammond

Bedouinisation or liberalisation of culture? the paradox in the Saudi monopoly of the Arab media / Noha Mellor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231700689

0231700687

OCLC:

226966631