State, Society and Economy in Saudi Arabia

Abstract

1. Introduction Tim Niblock 2. The Ideological Basis: Ibn Abd al-Wahhab's Muslim Revivalism Derek Hopwood 3. The Precarious Monarchy: Britain, Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud and the Establishment of the Kingdom of Hijaz, Najd and its Dependencies, 1925-1932 Peter Sluglett and Marion Farouk-Sluglett 4. King Abd al-Aziz's Changing Relationship with the Gulf States during the 1930s Rosemarie Said Zahlan 5. Social Structure and the Development of the Saudi Arabian Political System Tim Niblock 6. Secular and Religious Opposition in Saudi Arabia James Buchan 7. A Curious and Close Liaison: Saudi Arabia's Relations with the United States Fred Halliday 8. Aspects of Saudi Arabia's elations with other Gulf States John Duke Anthony 9. Social Change in Modern Saudi Arabia Shirley Kay 10. Secularisation as a Means of Detribalisation: Some Policies of the Saudi Arabian Government Towards the Nomads Ugo Fabietti 11. The Domestic Political Economy of Development in Saudi Arabia J.S. Birks and C.A. Sinclair 12. Saudi Arabia's Oil Policy in the 1970s: Its Origins, Implementation and Implications Paul Stevens 13. The Saudi Arabian Petrochemical Industry: Its Rationale and Effectiveness H.G. Hambleton 14. The Evolution of the Saudi Banking System and its Relationship with Bahrain Rodney Wilson