Seven Stories Press, 2003. — 252 p. In The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power, Professor As`ad Abu Khalil confronts the contradictory nature of Saudi Arabia—questions that both the Saudi government, long shrouded in mystery, and the United States government, ever protective of its own interests, seem unwilling to answer. In this unsparing probe...
Second Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 317 pp. — 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 pp. — (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...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 383 p. — ISBN: 9780190901745 King Salman of Saudi Arabia began his rule in 2015 confronted with a series of unprecedented challenges. The dilemmas he has faced are new and significant, from leadership shuffles and falling oil prices to regional and international upheaval. Salman's Legacy interrogates this era and assesses its multiple social,...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 230 p. — ISBN: 9780190496029 Analysis of both official and opposition Saudi divine politics is often monolithic, conjuring images of conservatism, radicalism, misogyny and resistance to democracy. Madawi Al-Rasheed challenges this stereotype as she examines a long tradition of engaging with modernism that gathered momentum with the Arab...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 312 p. In 2018, journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi regime operatives, shocking the international community and tarnishing the reputation of Muhammad bin Salman, the kingdom's young, reformist crown prince. Domestically, bin Salman's reforms have proven divisive, and his adoption of populist nationalism and fierce repression of...
Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2020. — 383 p. (Understanding modern nations) — ISBN: 978-1-4408-5704-1 This thematic encyclopedia examines contemporary and historical Saudi Arabia, with entries that fall under themes such as Geography, History, Government and Politics, Religion and Thought, Food, Etiquette, Media, and much more. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, known for its petroleum...
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...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2012. — 608 p. The ultimate biography of the warrior-politician who founded Saudi Arabia in 1932 and created one of the world’s most powerful nations. Ibn Saud grew to manhood living the harsh traditional life of the desert nomad, a life that had changed little since the days of Abraham. Equipped with immense physical courage, he fought and won, often with...
Stanford University Press, 2020. — 412 p. The production of history is premised on the selective erasure of certain pasts and the artifacts that stand witness to them. From the elision of archival documents to the demolition of sacred and secular spaces, each act of destruction is also an act of state building. Following the 1991 Gulf War, political elites in Saudi Arabia...
Indiana University Press, 2002. — 264 p. — ISBN 0-253-34095-0 As OPEC approaches its 50th anniversary, the paperback edition of Nathan J. Citino's well-received study advances a challenging, revisionist interpretation of U.S.-Saudi relations and OPEC's historical significance. Citino re-examines the relationship between President Eisenhower and King Sa'ud in the context of the...
I.B. Tauris, 2013. — 352 p. Saudi Arabia is generally and justifiably viewed as a country with some of the fewest democratic institutions and the weakest traditions of pluralism. It is therefore surprising to learn that at least in one corner of the Saudi world, there can be found a plurality of opinions and lively debate. Jorg Matthias Determann brings this element to light by...
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, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020. — xvi, 391 p. ; figs., maps, tables. Known as the 'Gate to Mecca' or 'Bride of the Red Sea', Jeddah has been a gateway for pilgrims travelling to Mecca and Medina and a station for international trade routes between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean for centuries. Seen from the perspective of its...
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 392 p. A new interdisciplinary approach to Gulf Studies. The Gulf sits at an ancient crossroads of cultures and faiths, and at the heart of modern trade stretching back to the origins of civilization. As a site of both conflict and peaceful encounter, it can be studied in the context of world history, as a place of cultural and historical...
Brill, 1978. — 220 p. Note on the Transliteration of Arabic Words. The Rise of the Movement. Najd 1900-1912. Origins of the Ikhwan Movement The Ikhwan: Myth and Reality The Development of the Movement The Rise of Ikhwan Communities Military Characteristics of the Ikhwan Early Problems with the Ikhwan Khurma: Gateway to the Hijaz The Decline of the Movement The Ikhwan in the...
Pluto Press, 2012. — 282 p. Highly informed inside account of the prospects for democracy in Saudi Arabia which challenges the West's alliance with the Saudi royal family. Will Saudi Arabia join the democratic wave in the Middle East? The uprisings and revolutions of 2011 do not, yet, seem to have affected the stability of the House of Saud, which remains secretive, highly...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 292 pp. — (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...
Canada: Bibliotex, 2021. — 200 p. Saudi Arabia traces its roots back to the earliest civilizations of the Arabian Peninsula. Over the centuries, the peninsula has played an important role in history. The book traces the history of Saudi Arabia, from its pre-Islamic origins, through the rise of the House of Saud, to issues facing the country today.
Cornell University Press, 2011. — 334 p. In Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats, the most thorough treatment of the political economy of Saudi Arabia to date, Steffen Hertog uncovers an untold history of how the elite rivalries and whims of half a century ago have shaped today's Saudi state and are reflected in its policies. Starting in the late 1990s, Saudi Arabia embarked on an...
Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. — 321 pp. — 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...
Routledge, 2018. — 200 p. Examining the evolution of the Sa'udi government from 1901 to 1983, a period of major social and political transformation, Dr, Huyette looks at the ways in which a traditional elite, the Al Sa'ud, has managed to surmount the formidable obstacles of tribal and regional differences compounded by rapid modernization. The Council of Ministers, formed in...
Routledge, 2020. — 188 p. Based on interviews with sources ranging from dissidents to diplomats, the book takes the reader behind the wall of piety and medievalism that guards Saudi sensitivities. Discussing the ruling family's self-awarded birthright to wealth and power, Anders Jerichow questions whether it is possible to ignore the rules of the world and still enjoy the...
Harvard University Press, 2010. — 321 p. Oil and water, and the science and technology used to harness them, have long been at the heart of political authority in Saudi Arabia. Oil’s abundance, and the fantastic wealth it generated, has been a keystone in the political primacy of the kingdom’s ruling family. The other bedrock element was water, whose importance was measured by...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 281 p. The stability of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia remains critical to Western security and economic interests. This crucial study focuses on generation change and identifies individuals with greatest leadership potential; examines their political, social, and religious views.
Oxford University Press, 1993. — 273 p. The Making of Saudi Arabia focuses on the transformation of the Saudi state from a loose tribal confederation into a more organized, monarchical state, a process which evolved mainly between 1916 and 1936. The study analyzes the formation and evolution of Saudi Arabia's main state attributes: its territorial hub and borders, central...
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 from...
London, 1983, 705 pages The Kingdom is rhe 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 own reckoning this country is just entering the...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 352 p. For more than half a century, Saudi Arabia--through both official and non-governmental channels--has poured billions of dollars into funding and sponsoring religious activities and Islamic causes around the world. The effect has been to propagate Wahhabism, the distinctively rigid and austere form of Islam associated with the Kingdom's...
Pegasus Books, 2023. — 348 p. — ISBN 978-1-63936-507-4. Starting at the source of this storied river, where ancient Mesopotamians and Assyrian kings had their images carved into stone, explorer Leon McCarron and his small team will journey through the Turkish mountains, across north-east Syria and into the heart of Iraq.Along the way, they will pass through historic cities like...
Pegasus Books, 2023. — 348 p. — ISBN 978-1-63936-508-1. Starting at the source of this storied river, where ancient Mesopotamians and Assyrian kings had their images carved into stone, explorer Leon McCarron and his small team will journey through the Turkish mountains, across north-east Syria and into the heart of Iraq.Along the way, they will pass through historic cities like...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. — 176 p. — (Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond). — ISBN-10 1625341571 ; ISBN-13 978-1625341570. In 1933 American oilmen representing what later became the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) signed a concession agreement with the Saudi Arabian king granting the company sole proprietorship over the oil reserves in the...
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 Imam...
I.B. Tauris, 2017. — 274 p. As jihadist extremism, and its manifestation as Al Qaeda, began to spread - even in the years before 9/11 - Saudi Arabia became a principal target. Jihadists identified the country as the first state against which they could mount a concerted effort to destabilise, undermine and subvert the authority of its central government and its ruling elites....
Thame and Hudson, 1981. — 223 p. As Puritan religious fervor sweeps across Islam, God-inspired militants rise up to purge Arabia of corrupt foreign influences, to secure the Holy Places of Islam from idolatrous Westerners and Western-backed Egyptian mercenaries. The time is early in the 19th Century, but the bitter clash between the Egyptians and the Wahhabis will reverberate...
Hurst and Company, 2001. — 329 p. The Hashemite Kingdom of the Hijaz in Arabia, played a crucial role in modern Middle Eastern history from its founding in 1916 until its demise in 1925. It was the first Arab country to gain independence from the Ottoman Empire, and it's rulers led the Arab Revolt of "Lawrence of Arabia" fame. The holy cities of Mecca and Medina flourished...
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...
I.B. Tauris, 2022. — 328 p. Saudi Vision 2030 and the National Transformation Plan 2020 are governmental initiatives to diversify Saudi Arabia's economy and implement nationwide social changes. Media and scholarly attention often describe the success or failure of these ambitious visions. This book shifts the focus to instead examine and evaluate the actual processes of...
Routledge, 2020. — 164 p. This book explains the Saudi decision to launch a direct military intervention in Yemen in 2015 by comparing it with the monarchy’s response to Egyptian intervention into Yemen in 1962. It does so through the lens of domestic politics by tracing the monarchy’s response to the opposition in both time periods, and how this was informed by the different...
New York University Press, 2000. — 580 p. This comprehensive history of Saudi Arabia provides coverage of its emergence in 1745 through to the 1990s. It presents the evolution of the social and political structures of Saudi society, the Wahhabi movement (Muwahhidun - believers in one God) for a reform of Islam, the impact of the "oil factor", and Saudi Arabia's place in the modern...
RAND, 2009 — 130 p. — ISBN-13 978-0-8330-4657-4 Frederic Wehrey, Theodore W. Karasik, Alireza Nader, Jeremy Ghez, Lydia Hansell, Robert A. Guffey The often tense relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran has been at the center of many of the major political shifts that have occurred in the Middle East since the fall of Saddam Hussein. This book surveys Saudi-Iranian relations...
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...
Преподаватель XXI век. — 2012. — № 1-2. — С. 287-293. В статье рассматриваются основные аспекты религиозного, политического и экономического характера, приведшие к египетской экспансии в Аравию, ход египетско-аравийской войны и последовавшее вслед за этим падение первого Саудовского государства.
М.: Наука, 1987. — 257 с. В монографии раскрываются узловые проблемы во внешней политике Саудовской Аравии, такие, как значение ее нефтяных и нефтедолларовых богатств в отношениях с развитыми капиталистическими государствами и с развивающимися странами, влияние исламского фактора на деятельность династии Саудидов, роль Саудовского королевства в межарабских отношениях, позиции...
М.: Наука, 1987. — 258 с. В монографии раскрываются узловые проблемы во внешней политике Саудовской Аравии, такие, как значение ее нефтяных и нефтедолларовых богатств в отношениях с развитыми капиталистическими государствами и с развивающимися странами, влияние исламского фактора на деятельность династии Саудидов, роль Саудовского королевства в межарабских отношениях, позиции...
Москва: Наука, 2024. — 796 с. — ISBN 978-5-02-041097-8. Среди многочисленных публикаций, посвященных Аравийскому полуострову, «История Саудовской Аравии» и в первых, и последующих изданиях на русском, арабском, английском языках занимает уникальное место. В ней охвачена эволюция саудовского общества примерно с середины XVIII в. до третьего десятилетия XXI в. Кроме исторического...
М.: Наука, 1982. - 616 с.
В книге излагается история государства Саудовской Аравии со времен ее возникновения в 1745 г. до 1973 г., когда энергетический кризис и учетверение цен на нефть в капиталистическом мире вывели это государство на авансцену не только ближневосточной, но и мировой политики. В книге исследуются эволюция социально-политической структуры общества в Саудовской...
М: Классика плюс; Книжный дом газеты Труд, 1999. - 672 с.
В книге излагается история саудовского государства со времени его возникновения в 1745 г. и до середины 90-х годов XX в. Исследуются эволюция социально-политической структуры общества в Саудовской Аравии, роль движения мусульманских реформаторов-ваххабитов, место Саудовской Аравии в сегодняшнем мире, воздействие нефтяного...
Институт Африки РАН. — М.: Восточная литература, 2010. — 519 с.: ил. Пролог Болезненный мальчик на горячей лошади Отец Подросток открывает огромный, огромный, огромный мир Возмужание Король Хиджаза, министр иностранных дел, военачальник Нефть и золото Фейсал и Иффат. Иффат и Фейсал Вторая мировая война. Открытие Америки Осень и зима патриарха Брат мой, король мой, горе мое...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2023. — 600 с. Книга посвящена одному из самых выдающихся арабских лидеров XX в., роли личности и духовного начала в политике. Богатый фактический материал позволяет читателю составить собственное представление о герое книги, о его самобытной стране, о переломных моментах ее истории, познакомиться «изнутри» с «исламским фактором», который играет столь важную...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2023. — 600 с. Книга посвящена одному из самых выдающихся арабских лидеров XX в., роли личности и духовного начала в политике. Богатый фактический материал позволяет читателю составить собственное представление о герое книги, о его самобытной стране, о переломных моментах ее истории, познакомиться «изнутри» с «исламским фактором», который играет столь важную...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2023. — 600 с. Книга посвящена одному из самых выдающихся арабских лидеров XX в., роли личности и духовного начала в политике. Богатый фактический материал позволяет читателю составить собственное представление о герое книги, о его самобытной стране, о переломных моментах ее истории, познакомиться «изнутри» с «исламским фактором», который играет столь важную...
М.: Наука, 1967. - 264 с.
Книга посвящена исследованию истории, идеологии, социальному и политическому строю государства Саудидов, возникшего в XVIII в. на основе ваххабитского движения на Аравийском полуострове.
Автор рассматривает эмират Саудидов в развитии, выясняет его экономическую, административную, военную структуру, его силу и слабость, предпосылки его гибели. Много...
М.: Наука, 1967. — 264 с.
Книга посвящена исследованию истории, идеологии, социальному и политическому строю государства Саудидов, возникшего в XVIII в. на основе ваххабитского движения на Аравийском полуострове.
Автор рассматривает эмират Саудидов в развитии, выясняет его экономическую, административную, военную структуру, его силу и слабость, предпосылки его гибели. Много...
М.: Институт Ближнего Востока, 2022. — 238 с. — ISBN 978-5-89394-338-2 Власти королевства отказываются от средневековых запретов и радикально меняют парадигму развития. Выбор в пользу «умеренного ислама», новейших технологий, открытости миру и туризма как альтернативы нефти.
М., ИБВ, 2007. - 360 с.
Книга посвящена внутриполитическим проблемам Саудовской Аравии. Автор освещает характер, направленность и динамику осуществляемых на рубеже XX-XXI веков реформ в одном из наиболее важных государств арабо-мусульманского мира.
Некоммерческий перевод издания Robert Lacey. Inside the Kingdom. NY-London, Penguin Group, 2009. 290 pages. Единственный перевод на русский язык яркой книги известного британского журналиста, биографа принцессы Монакской и королевы Елизаветы II, признанного эксперта по Саудовской Аравии. Эта страна, по определению автора, остается "одной из самых агрессивных загадок планеты",...
М.: АН СССР, 1961. - 225 с. В монографии освещается история образования Саудовской Аравии в XIX-XX вв., рассматривается роль ваххабитского движения в этом процессе. Особое внимание уделяется социально-экономическим условиям складывания монархии Саудитов, своеобразию Хозяйственно-Культурных типов региона, роли кочевых (бедуинских) племен. Отдельно рассматривается влияние...
Рогатин: Друкарня ПП Білінський, 2008. — 42 с. В збірнику розглядаються проблеми пов´язані з дослідженнями історії арабської цивілізації. Проаналізовані період 7 ст. н.е. та до сьогоднішнього дня. Особливу увагу присвячено дослідженню становлення громадянського суспільства і розвитку культури, військової справи. Описано події громадського і культурного життя народів Аравії....
Вестник РУДН. Серия Международные отношения. — 2010. — № 4. В статье рассмотрены взаимоотношения четырех наиболее влиятельных мусульманских государств в рамках ОИК (Организация Исламская Конференция): Саудовской Аравии, Ирана, Турции и Пакистана. Также автором затрагиваются основные региональные проблемы и угрозы, касающиеся этих стран - арабо-израильский конфликт, ядерная...
Москва: Альпина Паблишер; 2019. - 477 с. ISBN: 978-5-9614-2378-5 Книга специалиста в области геополитики и мировой энергетики Эллен Уолд посвящена истории Саудовской Аравии с начала XX века, когда Абдель-Азиз из рода Саудитов начал борьбу за объединение Аравийского полуострова, и до настоящего времени, когда Королевство стало одним из важнейших участников глобального...
الجزيرة العربية في الوثائق البريطانية (نجد والحجاز)، المجلد الرابع: 1919 نجدة فتحي صفوة (اختيار وترجمة و تحرير) الطبعة الاولى 1999 ISBN: 1-85516-5740 دار الساقي بناية تابت، شارع امين منيمنة، الحمراء، بيروت ترجمت الوثائق المستخرجة من مركز حفظ الوثائق البريطانية، التي هي من حقوق التاج البريطاني بموافقة مكتب جلالة بريطانية للقرطاسية на арабском языке Сафва Н.Ф. (сост. и пер.)....
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