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ISBN: 0903450151 9780903450157 Year: 1979 Volume: 5 Publisher: Oxford: Clio press,

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Philanthropie in Saudi-Arabien : Bestandsaufnahme und Untersuchung der organisierten wohltätigen Praxis in Djidda
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ISBN: 9783828260030 3828260039 9783828205642 382820564X Year: 2012 Publisher: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg,


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Feminist and Islamic Perspectives : new Horizons of Knowledge and Reform
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ISBN: 9789775895301 9775895308 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cairo : The Women and Memory Forum,

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America's kingdom : mythmaking on the Saudi oil frontier
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ISBN: 9780804754460 0804754462 Year: 2007 Publisher: Stanford (Calif.) : Stanford university press,

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"America's Kingdom debunks the many myths that now surround the United States' "special relationship" with Saudi Arabia, or what is less reverently known as "the deal": oil for security. Taking aim at the long-held belief that the Arabian American Oil Company, ARAMCO, made miracles happen in the desert, Robert Vitalis shows that nothing could be further from the truth. What is true is that oil led the U.S. government to follow the company to the kingdom. Eisenhower agreed to train Ibn Sa'ud's army, Kennedy sent jets to defend the kingdom, and Lyndon Johnson sold it missiles. Oil and ARAMCO quickly became America's largest single overseas private enterprise."--Jacket.


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Awakening Islam
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ISBN: 0674061071 0674049640 9780674049642 9780674061071 0674265254 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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Amidst the roil of war and instability across the Middle East, the West is still searching for ways to understand the Islamic world. Stéphane Lacroix has now given us a penetrating look at the political dynamics of Saudi Arabia, one of the most opaque of Muslim countries and the place that gave birth to Osama bin Laden. The result is a history that has never been told before. Lacroix shows how thousands of Islamist militants from Egypt, Syria, and other Middle Eastern countries, starting in the 1950's, escaped persecution and found refuge in Saudi Arabia, where they were integrated into the core of key state institutions and society. The transformative result was the Sahwa, or "Islamic Awakening," an indigenous social movement that blended political activism with local religious ideas. Awakening Islam offers a pioneering analysis of how the movement became an essential element of Saudi society, and why, in the late 1980's, it turned against the very state that had nurtured it. Though the "Sahwa Insurrection" failed, it has bequeathed the world two very different, and very determined, heirs: the Islamo-liberals, who seek an Islamic constitutional monarchy through peaceful activism, and the neo-jihadis, supporters of bin Laden's violent campaign. Awakening Islam is built upon seldom-seen documents in Arabic, numerous travels through the country, and interviews with an unprecedented number of Saudi Islamists across the ranks of today's movement. The result affords unique insight into a closed culture and its potent brand of Islam, which has been exported across the world and which remains dangerously misunderstood.


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Dealing with the fragmented international legal environment : WTO, international tax and internal tax regulations
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ISBN: 3642046770 3642046886 9786612838774 3642046789 1282838776 Year: 2010 Publisher: Heidelberg ; London : Springer,

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Taxes are sometimes so fundamental to domestic systems that they are almost impossible to change, as when the tax system is part of a nation's majority religion or is linked to another value deeply rooted in local communities, such as housing or farming. There is a danger in the WTO, a Geneva-based entity, making decisions for people living in distant locations with regard to tax issues related to their local needs and wants. The Saudi Arabian tax system exemplifies the tension between religion, tax and trade, because tax has a role in the country's religion and is an essential part of its laws. Therefore, there is a need for maintaining a delicate balance between local needs and international commitments with respect to taxation. This book aims to show directions in which legal order can be preserved as much as possible from within each country, and yet not imposed upon them, and which will help build a peaceful bridge between local and international factors that are important to shaping the global order.


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Graveyard of clerics : everyday activism in Saudi Arabia
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ISBN: 9781503612464 1503612465 9780804799805 0804799806 Year: 2020 Publisher: Stanford Stanford University Press

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Graveyard of Clerics is an ethnographic study of political action in Saudi Arabia. The book studies two phenomena that have rarely been analyzed together in the Middle East: urban sprawl and the politicization of religious activism. Suburbs emerged in Saudi Arabia after WWII, when the US oil company Aramco built racially segregated housing for its American employees and its Saudi, Arab, and Asian workforce. The country became an early non-western testing ground for urban growth techniques that, perfected in the United States before WWII, were widely exported during the Cold War: state guaranteed mortgages, standardized building and subdivision, and extensive freeway systems. Cheap gas, safe loans, and real estate speculation metamorphosed the Saudi landscape from the 1970s onward. Saudis started fleeing the inner cities, choked with car traffic and invaded by foreign migrants, to the peace and isolation of the suburbs. At the same time, autonomous religious movements emerged in the suburbs of Riyadh, Jeddah, Mecca, Medina, and Dammam between the late 1960s and the early 1980s. The Saudi Muslim Brotherhood, created by activists who had fled Egypt, Syria, and Iraq to avoid repression, developed within the cracks of the fledgling educational system. Various Salafi groups soon appeared in reaction to both the Muslim Brotherhood and the increased state control of religion and social life. In the 1970s and 1980s, the relative isolation of the suburbs allowed for the constitution and mobilization of vast activist networks. Religious activists politicized the suburban spaces where consumer debt and welfare benefits, boosted by the oil boom of the 1970s, had fostered political apathy. Islamists found followers through their powerful critique of the religious establishment (the senior Saudi 'ulama') and the country's military and economic alliance with the United States. Scholarship on Saudi religious movements typically focuses on ideology and rarely mentions the impact of US imperial policies on state building and space making. Graveyard of Clerics contests these well-trod narratives, which (1) fail to explain the emergence and resilience of vast political networks in highly repressive environments, (2) overlook the anti-imperialist undertone of religious protests, and (3) focus on elites while being oblivious of the vast majority of everyday activists. Combining interviews, archival research, analysis of secondary sources, and extensive field research, Graveyard of Clerics contends that activists use the spatial resources offered by urban sprawl to organize and protest. Taking Riyadh as a case study, Menoret analyzes what happens to Islamic activists when they hail from a wealthy, religious society. In the suburbs of Riyadh, religious activism is not primarily an expression of socioeconomic frustration. It most often represents conservative, homeowner-based politics in an environment that Islamic activists view as both questionable and promising. Th e book thus contributes to three bodies of literature: the study of global suburbs, the study of religion in Saudi Arabia, and the study of political activism in suburban spaces.


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La guerre d'après
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ISBN: 2226137548 9782226137548 Year: 2003 Publisher: Paris Albin Michel

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Islamic fundamentalism --- Wahhābīyah --- Terrorism --- Petroleum industry and trade --- History --- Religious aspects --- Islam --- Āl Saʿūd, House of --- Saudi Arabia --- United States --- Europe --- Politics and government --- Kings and rulers --- Foreign relations --- Comité permanent de Contrôle des services de renseignement et de sécurité (Comité permanent R) --- terrorisme --- Arabie saoudite --- Saudova Arabija --- Saudijska Arabija --- Саудиска Арабија --- Arabia Saudí --- Arabia Saudyjska --- Saoedi-Arabië --- Arabia Saudita --- Arábia Saudita --- Saúdská Arábie --- Saudi Araabia --- Saudo Arabija --- Saudi-Arabien --- Szaúd-Arábia --- Arabia Saudită --- Σαουδική Αραβία --- Saudská Arábia --- Saūda Arābija --- Saudi-Arabia --- Саудитска Арабия --- An Araib Shádach --- l-Għarabja Sawdita --- Arabia Saudite --- Saudiarabien --- Саудијска Арабија --- Koninkrijk Saoedi-Arabië --- Mbretëria e Arabisë Saudite --- Konungariket Saudiarabien --- Kraljevina Saudijska Arabija --- Кралство Саудиска Арабија --- Kraljevina Saudova Arabija --- Saūda Arābijas Karaliste --- Szaúd-arábiai Királyság --- Reino de Arabia Saudí --- Royaume d’Arabie saoudite --- Koninkrijk Saudi-Arabië --- Кралство Саудитска Арабия --- Saudskoarabské kráľovstvo --- Saúdskoarabské království --- Reino da Arábia Saudita --- Království Saúdské Arábie --- Краљевина Саудијска Арабија --- Βασίλειο της Σαουδικής Αραβίας --- Kongeriget Saudi-Arabien --- das Königreich Saudi-Arabien --- Saudi-Arabian kuningaskunta --- Regatul Arabiei Saudite --- Saudo Arabijos Karalystė --- Saudi-Arabië --- ir-Renju tal-Għarabja Sawdita --- Regno dell’Arabia Saudita --- Królestwo Arabii Saudyjskiej --- Kingdom of Saudi Arabia --- Saudi Araabia Kuningriik --- τρομοκρατία --- terroriżmu --- sceimhlitheoireacht --- terorisms --- terrorismo --- terrorism --- terrorizmus --- terorizam --- terorismus --- terorizem --- тероризам --- Terrorismus --- terorism --- terorizmus --- terrorizëm --- тероризъм --- terorizmas --- terroryzm --- terrorismi --- καταστολή της τρομοκρατίας --- terrorismo nero --- Bekämpfung des Terrorismus --- terrorista szervezet --- lucha contra el terrorismo --- терористичка група --- répression du terrorisme --- eliminim i terrorizmit --- lucha antiterrorista --- terorizmo išnaikinimas --- bekæmpelse af terrorisme --- grupo terrorista --- terrorszervezet --- potlačování terorismu --- elimination of terrorism --- brigate rosse --- bekämpande av terrorism --- combate contra o terrorismo --- antiterorizam --- kamp mot terrorism --- lupta împotriva terorismului --- terroristacsoport --- terrorismo di Stato --- πάταξη της τρομοκρατίας --- bestrijding van het terrorisme --- repressão do terrorismo --- борба против тероризам --- boj proti terorismu --- terrorizmus elleni küzdelem --- lotta al terrorismo --- terrorismo rosso --- zničenie terorizmu --- strage di Stato --- represión del terrorismo --- borba protiv terorizma --- repressione del terrorismo --- euroterrorismo --- terrorismin torjunta --- lutte contre le terrorisme --- антитероризам --- terorisma apkarošana --- terrorismivastane võitlus --- banda armada --- Vast Comité van Toezicht op de inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten (Vast Comité I) --- Islamic fundamentalism - Saudi Arabia. --- Wahhābīyah - Saudi Arabia - History --- Terrorism - Religious aspects - Islam --- Petroleum industry and trade - Saudi Arabia --- Saudi Arabia - Politics and government --- Saudi Arabia - Kings and rulers --- Saudi Arabia - Foreign relations - United States --- United States - Foreign relations - Saudi Arabia --- Saudi Arabia - Foreign relations - Europe --- Europe - Foreign relations - Saudi Arabia


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A history of Jeddah : the gate to Mecca in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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ISBN: 9781108478793 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

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"Jeddah was characterised bv a cosmopolitan population, resulting from the city's close connection to maritime trade and its function as the port of Mecca, the holymost city of Islam. Locally, this was conceptualised as the responsibility of hospitality for the guests of God. The study traces different groups of migrants and follows their integration into the city's evolving urban fabric from the late Ottoman to early Saudi period. Its focus are the social, professional and religious institutions ordering life in the city and allowing newcomers to establish themselves. With increasing Western attempts to control the pilgrimage and establish their influence, the Ottoman authorities tightened immigration rules. However, only Saudi Arabian modernisation and large scale labour immigration fundamentally altered the immigration regime. The clear boundaries between nationals and foreigners increasingly limited possibilities for social integration. This notwithstanding, the history of hospitality, in connection with the urban space of old Jeddah, has become a key component of local pride and identity"--


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Oil and security policies : Saudi Arabia, 1950-2012
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ISBN: 9004277730 9789004277731 9789004277748 9004277749 Year: 2016 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill,

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With one quarter of proven oil reserves and the largest oil production in the world, Saudi Arabia has been at the center of world politics. Its vast oil resources have been utilized in various ways to maximize internal and external security. While oil revenue allowed the Saudi state to buy off legitimacy at home and abroad, the Saudi state exploited oil supply to either forge alliances with or pressure consuming and producing countries. By providing an insightful account of how oil resources shaped Saudi security policies since the mid-twentieth century, Islam Y. Qasem offers a timely contribution to the study of oil politics and the interrelationship between economic interdependence and security.

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Petroleum industry and trade --- Energy consumption --- Internal security --- National security --- Security, International --- Collective security --- International security --- International relations --- Disarmament --- International organization --- Peace --- National security policy --- NSP (National security policy) --- Security policy, National --- Economic policy --- Military policy --- Security, Internal --- Insurgency --- Subversive activities --- Consumption of energy --- Energy efficiency --- Fuel consumption --- Fuel efficiency --- Power resources --- Energy conservation --- Energy industries --- Oil industries --- Political aspects --- Government policy --- Saudi Arabia --- Foreign relations. --- E-books --- BPB1604 --- Arabie Saoudite --- Industrie pétrolière --- Relation internationale --- Politique de défense --- Sécurité internationale --- διεθνής ασφάλεια --- internationale Sicherheit --- international sikkerhed --- tarptautinis saugumas --- kansainvälinen turvallisuus --- international security --- меѓународна безбедност --- medzinárodná bezpečnosť --- siguri ndërkombëtare --- rahvusvaheline julgeolek --- internationell säkerhet --- segurança internacional --- международна сигурност --- starptautiskā drošība --- seguridad internacional --- sicurezza internazionale --- mednarodna varnost --- bezpieczeństwo międzynarodowe --- međunarodna sigurnost --- mezinárodní bezpečnost --- међународна безбедност --- internationale veiligheid --- nemzetközi biztonság --- securitate internațională --- sigurtà internazzjonali --- equilibrio internacional --- internationell jämvikt --- međunarodna ravnoteža --- světová rovnováha --- διεθνής ισορροπία --- ekuilibër ndërkombëtar --- medzinárodná rovnováha --- tarptautinė pusiausvyra --- меѓународна рамнотежа --- internationaal evenwicht --- equilíbrio internacional --- drošības intereses --- starptautiskais līdzsvars --- internationales Gleichgewicht --- nemzetközi egyensúly --- international balance --- Διάσκεψη του Ελσίνκι --- equilibrio internazionale --- rahvusvaheline tasakaal --- echilibru internațional --- équilibre international --- mezinárodní rovnováha --- αμυντική πολιτική --- politikë e mbrojtjes --- kaitsepoliitika --- одбранбена политика --- védelmi politika --- defensiebeleid --- aizsardzības politika --- politika tad-difiża --- gynybos politika --- política de defensa --- politică de apărare --- политика на отбраната --- política de defesa --- puolustuspolitiikka --- Verteidigungspolitik --- obranná politika --- forsvarspolitik --- obrambna politika --- obrambena politika --- politica di difesa --- försvarspolitik --- defence policy --- одбрамбена политика --- polityka obronna --- valstybės gynyba --- valsts aizsardzība --- militärt program --- národní obrana --- mbrojtje kombëtare --- nationalt forsvar --- πολιτική άμυνας --- seguridad nacional --- národná obrana --- Militärprogramm --- Landesverteidigung --- politika obrany --- kaitseprogramm --- programa militar --- militært program --- program ushtarak --- védelempolitika --- katonai program --- defence programme --- forsvaret --- programma militare --- gynybos programa --- défense nationale --- militārā programma --- política militar --- maanpuolustus --- programme militaire --- vojenská doktrína --- program i mbrojtjes --- nacionalna obrana --- karinė programa --- sotilasohjelma --- bezpečnost státu --- aizsardzības programma --- nationellt försvar --- στρατιωτικό πρόγραμμα --- Verteidigung des Staatsgebiets --- védelmi program --- apărare națională --- militair programma --- riigikaitse --- defensa nacional --- obrana státu --- national defence --- nationale defensie --- difesa nazionale --- military programme --- nemzetvédelem --- defesa nacional --- εθνική άμυνα --- honvédelem --- mednarodni odnosi --- rahvusvahelised suhted --- tarptautiniai santykiai --- internationella förbindelser --- mezinárodní vztahy --- nemzetközi kapcsolatok --- меѓународни односи --- marrëdhënie ndërkombëtare --- kansainväliset suhteet --- international relations --- relazioni internazionali --- међународни односи --- relazzjonijiet internazzjonali --- международни отношения --- relación internacional --- starptautiskās attiecības --- internationale relationer --- internationale betrekking --- internationale Beziehungen --- διεθνείς σχέσεις --- stosunki międzynarodowe --- medzinárodné vzťahy --- relações internacionais --- relații internaționale --- međunarodni odnosi --- internacionální styky --- államközi kapcsolatok --- internationale forbindelser --- starptautiski sakari --- mezinárodní styky --- zwischenstaatliche Beziehungen --- internationale anliggender --- πετρελαιοβιομηχανία --- öljyteollisuus --- Erdölindustrie --- нафтна индустрија --- naftna industrija --- indústria petrolífera --- ropný priemysel --- ropný průmysl --- петролна индустрия --- industrija taż-żejt --- industria petrolera --- industri e naftës --- olieindustri --- industria petrolului --- oljeindustri --- naftos pramonė --- naftatööstus --- przemysł naftowy --- industria petrolifera --- aardolie-industrie --- naftas rūpniecība --- oil industry --- нафтена индустрија --- olajipar --- Ölgesellschaft --- kőolajipar --- εταιρεία πετρελαίων --- naftas uzņēmums --- compagnie pétrolière --- aardoliemaatschappij --- ropná spoločnosť --- oljeföretag --- shoqëri nafte --- průmysl ropy --- öljy-yhtiö --- compañía petrolera --- industria del petróleo --- aardolieproducten --- companie petrolieră --- ropná společnost --- compagnia petrolifera --- naftna tvrtka --- petroleum industry --- olieselskab --- naftos bendrovė --- Mažeikių naftos perdirbimo gamykla --- Mineralölkonzern --- priemysel ropy --- naftaettevõte --- oil company --- olajipari vállalkozás --- Erdölgesellschaft --- industrie petrolieră --- companhia petrolífera --- Saudova Arabija --- Saudijska Arabija --- Саудиска Арабија --- Arabia Saudí --- Arabia Saudyjska --- Saoedi-Arabië --- Arabia Saudita --- Arábia Saudita --- Saúdská Arábie --- Saudi Araabia --- Saudo Arabija --- Saudi-Arabien --- Szaúd-Arábia --- Arabia Saudită --- Σαουδική Αραβία --- Saudská Arábia --- Saūda Arābija --- Saudi-Arabia --- Саудитска Арабия --- An Araib Shádach --- l-Għarabja Sawdita --- Arabia Saudite --- Saudiarabien --- Саудијска Арабија --- Koninkrijk Saoedi-Arabië --- Mbretëria e Arabisë Saudite --- Konungariket Saudiarabien --- Kraljevina Saudijska Arabija --- Кралство Саудиска Арабија --- Kraljevina Saudova Arabija --- Saūda Arābijas Karaliste --- Szaúd-arábiai Királyság --- Reino de Arabia Saudí --- Royaume d’Arabie saoudite --- Koninkrijk Saudi-Arabië --- Кралство Саудитска Арабия --- Saudskoarabské kráľovstvo --- Saúdskoarabské království --- Reino da Arábia Saudita --- Království Saúdské Arábie --- Краљевина Саудијска Арабија --- Βασίλειο της Σαουδικής Αραβίας --- Kongeriget Saudi-Arabien --- das Königreich Saudi-Arabien --- Saudi-Arabian kuningaskunta --- Regatul Arabiei Saudite --- Saudo Arabijos Karalystė --- Saudi-Arabië --- ir-Renju tal-Għarabja Sawdita --- Regno dell’Arabia Saudita --- Królestwo Arabii Saudyjskiej --- Kingdom of Saudi Arabia --- Saudi Araabia Kuningriik --- beartas cosanta --- caidreamh idirnáisiúnta --- slándáil idirnáisiúnta --- tionscal ola --- Sécurité internationale --- Industrie pétrolière --- Politique de défense

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