1. Introduction / Bernard Haykel, Thomas Hegghammer and Stephane Lacroix
Part I. Politics
2. Rentier exceptionalism : oil and political mobilization in Saudi Arabia / Gregory Gause
3. The dogma of development : technopolitics and power in Saudi Arabia / Toby Jones
4. Enforcing the state's Islam : the functioning of the committee of senior scholars / Nabil Mouline
Part II. Oil
5. Saudi Arabia and the world oil market / Giacomo Luciani
6. The political economy of regional development in post-World War II Saudi Arabia / Steffen Hertog
7. Oil in Saudi Arabian culture and politics : from tribal poets to Al-Qaeda's ideologues / Bernard Haykel
Part III. Islam and Islamism
8. From Wahhabi to Salafi / David Commins
9. Understanding stability and dissent in the kingdom : the role of the jama'at in Saudi politics / Stéphane Lacroix
10. The struggle for authority : the Shaykhs of Jihadi-Salafism in Saudi Arabia, 1997-2003 / Saud al-Sarhan
11. "Classical" and "global" jihadism in Saudi Arabia / Thomas Hegghammer
Part IV. Social Change
12. Raiders and traders : a poet's lament of the end of the Bedouin heroic age / Abd al-Aziz H. Al Fahad
13. Rootless trees : genealogical politics in Saudi Arabia / Abd al-Aziz H. Al Fahad
14. Caught between religion and state : women in Saudi Arabia / Madawi al-Rasheed
15. Engendering Saudi consumerism : a study of young women's practices in Riyadh's shopping malls / Amélie Le Renard.
Saudi Arabia in transition : insights on social, political, economic and religious change. ISBN 9780521185097. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.