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RENTIER ISLAMISM IN THE ABSENCE OF ELECTIONS: THE POLITICAL ROLE OF MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AFFILIATES IN QATAR AND THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2017

Courtney Freer
Courtney Freer*
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Courtney Freer is a Research Officer at the Kuwait Programme on Development, Governance, and Globalisation in the Gulf States, London School of Economics and Political Science, London; e-mail: c.j.freer@lse.ac.uk
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Abstract

Drawing on contemporary history and empirical research, this article revises traditional rentier state theory, which fails to account for the existence of Islamist movements in states accruing substantial outside wealth. Rentier state theory expects that citizens of such states will form opposition blocs only when their stake in rent income is threatened. Examining the development of Muslim Brotherhood affiliates in two archetypal rentier states, or super-rentiers, in the Gulf—Qatar and the United Arab Emirates—this article shows that ideology rather than rent motivated the formation of independent Islamist movements. This research helps to break the causal link established by rentier state theory between oil rents and lack of politically relevant Islamist organizations. We find that the presence of oil rents, instead of rendering Islamist complaint politically irrelevant, shapes the ways in which Islamist movements seek to influence government policies.

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Gulf politicsIslamismMuslim Brotherhoodrentierismpolitical Islam
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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 49 , Issue 3 , August 2017 , pp. 479 - 500
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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Author's note: I am indebted to Daniel Fedorowycz and Andrew Leber for their detailed and insightful feedback on various versions of this paper and to Shadi Hamid for his continued support of my work on Islamism in the Gulf. I am also immensely grateful to the IJMES reviewers and editors, whose comments made this article much stronger, and to my colleagues at the London School of Economics and Political Science Middle East Centre for their continued support and advice. Finally, and most importantly, I owe a huge debt of gratitude to everyone who agreed to be interviewed for my research.

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