Kingdom without borders : Saudi political, religious and media frontiers / Madawi Al-Rasheed, editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : an assessment of Saudi political, religious and media expansion / Madawi Al-Rasheed -- Politics beyond frontiers. Between imara, empire and oil : Saudis in the frontier society of the Persian Gulf / Nelida Fuccaro -- Saudi expansion : the Lebanese connection, 1924-1952 / Fawwaz Traboulsi -- Determinants and characteristics of Saudi role in Lebanon : the post-civil war years / As'ad Abu Khalil -- Ambivalent ally : Saudi Arabia and the 'war on terror' / Roger Hardy -- Producing 'reformed Islam' : a Saudi contribution to the US projects of global governance / Salwa Ismail -- Kingdom with borders : the political economy of Saudi-European relations / Paul Aarts, Roos Meertens and Joris van Duijne -- The prospects and limits of religious expansion. The refutation of Wahhabism in Arabic sources, 1745-1932 / Hamadi Redissi -- The role of religious ideology in the expansionist policies of Saudi Arabia / Saeed Shehabi -- The minaret and the palace : obedience at home and rebellion abroad / Madawi Al-Rasheed -- Yusuf al-Uyairi and the transnationalisation of Saudi jihadism / Roel Meijer -- Salafism in Yemen : a 'Saudisation'? / Laurent Bonnefoy -- Saudi expansion, salafi campaign and Arabised Islam in Indonesia / Noorhaidi Hasan -- The 'Arab' in global militancy / Faisal Devji -- Saudi Arabian expansion in the United States : half-hearted missionary work meets rock-solid resistance / Eleanor Abdella Doumato -- The media and multiple actors. Saudi Arabia's media mask / Mai Yamani -- Maintaining Saudi Arabia's cordon sanitaire in the Arab media / Andrew Hammond -- Bedouinisation or liberalisation of culture? the paradox in the Saudi monopoly of the Arab media / Noha Mellor.