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This is the first book-length study of the emergence of Medina, in modern Saudi Arabia, as an Islamic holy city, with a particular focus on the first three Islamic centuries (the seventh to ninth centuries CE).
This revised edition considers two developing countries with similar socio-ethnic backgrounds in the context of international and... Læs mere
Why do young Saudis, night after night, joyride and skid cars on Riyadh's avenues? Who are those 'drifters' who defy public order and private property?... Læs mere
Revealing a distinct group of voices, this unique account of the lives of young Saudi men based on remarkable primary research... Læs mere
This accessible scholarly work traces the regional politics of the Shia in the Eastern Province of Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia since the nineteenth... Læs mere
Of all the countries in the world that are vital to the strategic and economic interests of the United States, Saudi Arabia is the least... Læs mere
A detailed study of the role of religious worship and spiritual affairs in women's lives in the twentieth-century Arab world.
Victor McFarland challenges the view that the U.S.-Saudi alliance is the inevitable consequence of American energy demand and Saudi Arabia’s huge oil... Læs mere
Victor McFarland challenges the view that the U.S.-Saudi alliance is the inevitable consequence of American energy demand and Saudi Arabia’s huge oil... Læs mere
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Aiming to dispel the notion that Britain is exclusively responsible for the formation of the Persian Gulf's modern states, this... Læs mere
Explores how Saudi Arabian women writers have used their art as a means of gaining control over the cultural and political restraints... Læs mere