... Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates UAE Bahrain Petroleum Company BapCo Gulf Oil National Security Council U S Oil companies American Standard Oil of California Socal Trucial states Basing strategy U S Diego Garcia Joint Chiefs of Staff U S Kissinger Henry A Moorer Thomas H Bayne Marmaduke G...

... Nina Glick women 9 11 Arab Spring al ‘Awda Salman al Hawali Safar oil Sahwa al Sanad ‘Abd al Rahman al ‘Uqla Muhammad War on Terror Salafism Wahhabism Saudi Arabia religious economies Islamic University of Medina soft power cultural imperialism transnationalism that saudi...

...This chapter examines Egyptian and Saudi relations with Iran before and after Islamists came to power in the Iranian revolution. It argues that Egypt and Saudi Arabia perceived Iran's ideational power projection as a national security threat. The ideational security dilemma between Iran and its...

... al ghayb corruption Shiʿi Shiʿa Shiʿite shirk sultan sultanate ʿaṣabiyya Mahdism Ottoman Empire Sanusis Saudi Arabia Wahhabism imams jihad Muʿawiya recognition Umayyads fundamentalism Hanafis Hanbalism Ibn Taymiyya al Harrani Taqi al Din Abu al Abbas Ahmad Ibn Abd al Halim India...

...This chapter examines Sudan's relations with Egypt and Saudi Arabia from the 1970s through 2000, covering the periods before and after Islamists came to power there. The chapter's argument is that military power played a small role in triggering threat perception. Instead, Egypt and Saudi Arabia...

... and to explain how it has achieved such seemingly unprecedented momentum, it has become common to invoke a form of cultural imperialism emanating from Saudi Arabia. An article published by the news agency France 24 in 2012 is emblematic of this line of thinking. The piece opens with a pen portrait of black...

... Dwight Eisenhower Doctrine Libya Muslim World League Organisation of the Islamic Conference Orientalism Pakistan Sudan United States Washington World Assembly of Muslim Youth East Africa Gulf London nationalism qadi Al al Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ibrahim fatwas Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia...

... Soviet Union. Though pan-Arab nationalism played a certain role in stimulating domestic instability in Saudi Arabia, three separate regional factors played a more influential role in determining the Saud monarchy’s decision to permit the continued U.S. military basing presence: Hashemite threats...

...This book analyzes how ideas, or political ideology, can threaten states and how states react to ideational threats. It examines the threat perception and policies of two Arab, Muslim majority states, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, in response to the rise and activities of two revolutionary “Islamic...

... King Jones Jesse Mecca and Medina Moffett James A Oil companies American Roosevelt Franklin D Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia relations with United States U S Navy World War II Gulf Arab states U S bases in Hashemites Islam Saudi Arabia external security concerns Saudi Arabia internal security...

...This chapter studies the process that led to the Saudi decision to reestablish a U.S. military basing presence in 1990. Though Saudi Arabia maintained its partnership with the U.S. military throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the U.S. was not given control of local bases after 1962 until the First Gulf...