Politics of Islam
The Muslim Brothers and the State in the Arab Gulf
1st Edition
Published on 20. August 2021
256 pages
978-1-4744-9027-6 (ISBN)
Description
In this book, Birol Baskan explains the variation in attitudes and approaches towards the Muslim Brotherhood across 5 Gulf States: Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. He argues that this disparity is at the root of the ongoing Gulf crisis that erupted in June 2017.
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Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Historical Background: Desert and its Legacies
- 2 Modern Sovereign State Building in the Gulf: From the 1950s to the 1970s
- 3 The Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf
- 4 Modern Sovereign State Building in the Gulf: From the 1980s to the 2000s
- 5 Gulf States' Diverging Attitudes towards the Muslim Brotherhood
- 6 The Arab Spring
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
