Saudi Arabia: Selected Issues
From Saudi Arabia's pre-Islamic history to the events of today, this book offers a balanced, informative perspective on the country's long history.
145, Brooks, Nine Parts, p. 79. 87 One story recounts how Aisha: Bukhari Hadith, vol. 5, bk. 58, no. 168. 87 This marriage violated: Brooks, Nine Parts, p. 83; Armstrong, Muhammad p. 196. 88 The Prophet laughed: Barnaby Rogerson, ...
This historical study describes how Saud, with British backing, expanded the Saudi state to embrace most of the Arabian peninsula and establish a family monarchy that survives to this day.
The Heritage of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Each of the essays, framed in the aftermath of 9/11 and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, offers a systematic perspective into the country’s political and economic realities as well as the tension between its regional and global roles.
The book's editor, political scientist Dr. Winberg Chai, provides in his introduction a concise overview of this largely unknown kingdom from its geography and history to its contemporary role in the war on terrorism.
Combining vast scholarship and a deep understanding of Arab culture, Nadav Safran has written a sophisticated book about the politics of Saudi Arabia.
He regularly fed thousands at his palace from huge communal trays of rice and mutton and passed out clothes to the needy from his basement storerooms. He literally kept his gold and silver coins in a metal chest that was carried about ...
This new edition covers the political, economic and social developments in Saudi Arabia since 9/11 to the present day.
Saudi Arabia is the only oil exporter capable of acting as a 'swing producer', a fact of which this book reminds us.