A history of Saudi Arabia / Madawi Al-Rasheed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Al-Rasheed, Madawi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Saudi Arabia--History--20th century.

Saudi Arabia.

Physical Description:

xvii, 255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Summary:

An intimate portrait of a closed and enigmatic society.

Contents:

Map 1 Saudi Arabia, main regions and cities xvi

Map 2 Saudi Arabia, main tribes xvii

1 Society and politics, 1744-1818 and 1824-1891 14

The origins of Al Sacud (1744-1818) 15

A fragile Sacudi revival (1824-1891) 23

The Rashidi emirate in Hail (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 Sacud (1914-1918) 41

The capture of Hail (1921) 43

The capture of Hijaz (1925) 44

The mutawwaa of Najd 49

The ikhwan 59

An alliance not so holy: Ibn Sacud, the mutawwaa and the ikhwan 62

The collapse of the ikhwan rebellion 69

3 Control and loyalty, 1932-1953 72

Marginalising Sacudi collateral branches 72

Consolidating Ibn Sacud'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 Sacud (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 189

Political speech 196

The historical narrative challenged 199

The centennial celebrations: the capture of Riyadh revisited 204

The centennial celebration challenged 215

Appendix I Al Sacud rulers in Diriyyah (1744-1818) 224

Appendix II Al Sacud rulers in Riyadh (1824-1891) 225

Appendix III Ibn Sacud's sons (1900-1953) 226.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index.

ISBN:

052164335X

0521644127

OCLC:

47916125