TY  - BOOK
AU  - Al-Rasheed, Madawi
TI  - A history of Saudi Arabia.
SN  - 052164412-7
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Saudi Arabia
KW  - sears
N1  - Contents  List of illustrations   List of tables   Chronology   Glossary  Map 1 Saudi Arabia, main regions and cities  Map 2 Saudi Arabia, main tribes   Introduction 1 1 Society and politics, 1744-1818 and 1824-1891 14  The origins of Al Saud (1744-1818) 15  A fragile Saudi revival (1824-1891) 23  The Rashidi emirate in Ha'il (1836-1921) 26  The Sharifian emirate in Hijaz 30  Hasa in the nineteenth century 34  Emirate formation in Arabia 37 2 The emerging state, 1902-1932 39  The capture of Riyadh (1902) 39  The First World War and Ibn Saud (1914-1918) 41  The capture of Ha'il (1921) 43  The capture of Hijaz (1925) 44  The mutawwaa of Najd 49  The ikhwan 59  An alliance not so holy: Ibn Saud, the mutawwaa and the ikhwan 62  The collapse of the ikhwan rebellion 69 3 Control and loyalty, 1932-1953 72  Marginalising Saudi collateral branches 72  Consolidating Ibn Saud's line of descent 75  Power and pomp in the pre-oil era: the majlis 80  State affairs 86  The oil concession (1933) 91  Oil in commercial quantities 93  Oil and society in the 1940s and 1950s 95  Saudi Arabia and Britain 100  The end of an era 105 4 The politics of dissent, 1953-1973 106  The reign of King Saud (1953-1964) 106  Saudi Arabia and the Arab world in the 1950s 114  Saudi Arabia and the United States in the 1950s and early 1960s 117  The reign of King Faysal (1964-1975) 120  Faysal and the Arab world 128 5 From affluence to austerity, 1973-1990 135  Affluence: the oil embargo (1973) 136  Vulnerabilities: Saudi-American relations in the 1970s 140  The reign of King Khalid (1975-1982) 143  Austerity: the reign of King Fahd (1982- ) 149  Saudi Arabia and the Gulf context in the 1980s 155  Saudi-American relations in the 1980s 160 6 The Gulf War and its aftermath, 1990-2000 163  Saudi responses to the Gulf War 168  State responses: the reforms of March 1992 172  The Islamist opposition 176  Succession 186 7 Narratives of the state, narratives of the people 188  Official historiography
N2  - Saudi Arabia is a wealthy and powerful country which exerts influence in the West and across the Islamic world. Yet it remains a closed society. The author traces its history from the age of emirates in the nineteenth century to the present day. Fusing chronology with analysis, personal experience with oral histories, she illuminates the social and cultural life of the Saudis. This rich and rewarding book will be invaluable to students as well as others trying to understand the enigma of Saudi Arabia
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