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Justice, Charity, and the Common Good: In Search of Islam in Gulf Petro-Monarchies
- The Middle East Journal
- Middle East Institute
- Volume 71, Number 4, Autumn 2017
- pp. 563-585
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Abstract:
The article probes the effects of Islamic doctrine on the allocation of hydrocarbon revenues and vice versa and the significance of this relationship for politics. It explores two areas of (state-directed) distributive activity—government subsidies and charitable giving—in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and Oman. It demonstrates how both oil revenues and Islamic doctrine are mobilized to consolidate state authority and how both have been manipulated and deliberately interconnected as tools of state power.