Second Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 317 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-74754-7. This updated edition analyses the challenges, both internal and external, facing Saudi Arabia in the twenty-first century. Two new chapters discuss the political, economic and social developments in the aftermath of 9/11, painting a vivid picture of a country shocked by terrorism and...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 310 p. — (Cambridge Middle East Studies; 25). — ISBN: 978-0-521-85836-6. The terms Wahhabi or Salafi are seen as interchangeable and frequently misunderstood by outsiders. However, as Madawi Al-Rasheed explains in a fascinating exploration of Saudi Arabia in the twenty-first century, even Saudis do not agree on their meaning. Under the...
Greenwood Press, 2008. — 158 p. — (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations). — ISBN: 978-0-313-34012-3. Modern Saudi Arabia is a nation struggling to adopt its eighteenth-century political and religious system to the demands of the new millennium. Governed by an absolute monarchy, the Saudi state confronts the multiple challenges of globalization with a cautiousness that...
P. L. Warner, publisher to the Medici society, ltd., J. Cape, 1921 - 714 p. Charles Montagu Doughty was an English poet, writer, and traveller born in Theberton Hall, Saxmundham, Suffolk and educated at private schools in Laleham and Elstree, and at a school for the royal navy, Portsmouth. He was a student at King's College London, eventually graduating from Gonville and Caius...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 292 p. — (Cambridge Middle East Studies; 33). — ISBN: 978-0-521-73236-9. Saudi Arabia, homeland of Usama bin Ladin and many 9/11 hijackers, is widely considered to be the heartland of radical Islamism. For decades, the conservative and oil-rich kingdom contributed recruits, ideologues and money to jihadi groups worldwide. Yet Islamism within...
Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. — 321 p. — ISBN: 0307272168. With over thirty years of experience writing about Saudi Arabia, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former publisher of The Wall Street Journal Karen Elliott House has an unprecedented knowledge of life inside this shrouded kingdom. Through anecdotes, observation, analysis, and extensive interviews, she navigates the maze in...
Viking, 2009. — 404 p. Though Saudi Arabia sits on one of the richest oil deposits in the world, it also produced fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. In this immensely important book, journalist Robert Lacey draws on years of access to every circle of Saudi society giving readers the fullest portrait yet of a land straddling the worlds of medievalism and modernity. Moving...
London, 1983, 705 p. The Kingdom is the story of a country - a country of astonishing contrasts: where computer print-outs open with the words ‘In the name of God’, where men who grew up in goat-hair tents now dominate the money markers of the world, and where murderers and adulterers are executed in the street. By its reckoning, this country is just entering the fifteenth...
Lanham, Maryland, and Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, 2003. – 259 p. Contents: – Maps. – Editor's Foreword. – Acknowledgements. – Conventions and Spellings. – Acronyms and Abbreviations. – Chronology. – Introduction. – THE DICTIONARY. – Appendix A: Rulers in the Al Sa'ud Dynasty. – Appendix B: The Al Sa'ud: Relationship of Cadet Branches. – Appendix C: Prominent Descendants of...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2017. — 428 p. In 1918, as the First World War ravaged the European continent, young American journalist Lowell Thomas traveled to Arabia to report on the revolts breaking out as an indirect result of the savage European conflict. While in Jerusalem, he met and struck up a friendship with the young British captain, T.E. Lawrence. Based on his travels and...
Facts On File, 2010. - 364 p. Saudi Arabia is a country in transition, slowly but steadily changing from within and increasingly flexing its muscle and influence regionally. The country has entered the new century as a pivotal regional power. As the birthplace of Islam, it remains a powerful moral leader of the Muslim world, particularly the Arab arena. Its response to domestic...
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