Kingdom without borders
Subtitle: Saudi political, religious and media frontiers
By: Madawi Al-Rasheed, editor.
Contributors: Al-Rasheed, Madawi.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780231700689
Subjects: Religion and politics -- Saudi Arabia; Islamic fundamentalism -- Saudi Arabia; Saudi Arabia -- Politics and government -- 1932-; Saudi Arabia -- Foreign relations -- 1932-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : an assessment of Saudi political, religious and media expansion / Madawi Al-Rasheed; title: Politics beyond frontiers. Between imara, empire and oil : Saudis in the frontier society of the Persian Gulf / Nelida Fuccaro; title: Saudi expansion : the Lebanese connection, 1924-1952 / Fawwaz Traboulsi; title: Determinants and characteristics of Saudi role in Lebanon : the post-civil war years / As'ad Abu Khalil; title: Ambivalent ally : Saudi Arabia and the 'war on terror' / Roger Hardy; title: Producing 'reformed Islam' : a Saudi contribution to the US projects of global governance / Salwa Ismail; title: Kingdom with borders : the political economy of Saudi-European relations / Paul Aarts, Roos Meertens and Joris van Duijne; title: The prospects and limits of religious expansion : the refutation of Wahhabism in Arabic sources, 1745-1932. The role of religious ideology in the expansionist policies of Saudi Arabia / Saeed Shehabi; title: The minaret and the palace : obedience at home and rebellion abroad / Madawi Al-Rasheed, Yusuf al-Uyairi; title: The transnationalisation of Saudi jihadism / Roel Meijer; title: Salafism in Yemen : a 'Saudisation'? / Laurent Bonnefoy; title: Saudi expansion, salafi campaign and Arabised Islam in Indonesia / Noorhaidi Hasan; title: The 'Arab' in global militancy / Faisal Devji; title: Saudi Arabian expansion in the United States : half-hearted missionary work meets rock-solid resistance / Eleanor Abdella Doumato; title: The media and multiple actors. Saudi Arabia's media mask / Mai Yamani; title: Maintaining Saudi Arabia's cordon sanitaire in the Arab media / Andrew Hammond; title: Bedouinisation or liberalisation of culture? the paradox in the Saudi monopoly of the Arab media / Noha Mellor.