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Inside the kingdom : kings, clerics, modernists, terrorists, and the struggle for Saudi Arabia / Robert Lacey.
Van Pelt Library DS244.63 .L33 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lacey, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lacey, Robert.
- Travel.
- Social conditions.
- Saudi Arabia--History--1932-.
- Saudi Arabia.
- History.
- Saudi Arabia--Politics and government--1982-.
- Politics and government.
- Saudi Arabia--Social conditions.
- Saudi Arabia--Description and travel.
- Lacey, Robert--Travel--Saudi Arabia.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 404 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking, 2009.
- Summary:
- Tracing a path through the Persian Gulf War and the events of 9/11 to the oilmarket convulsions of today, "Inside the Kingdom" gives readers a modern history of the Saudis in their own words, revealing a people attempting to reconcile life under religious law with the demands of a rapidly changing world.
- Contents:
- Part one: Kingdom of God. Angry face
- The brothers
- Siege
- No Sunni, no Shia
- Vox populi, vox Dei
- Salafi soccer
- Jihad in Afghanistan
- Special relationship
- Dawn visitors
- Stars in the heavens
- Into exile
- The dove and the East wind
- Vacationing Jihadi
- Part two: Kingdom at war. Desert Storm
- Battle for al-Khafji
- Awakening
- Stopping the sins
- In from the cold
- Change of heart
- Enter the Crown Prince
- The students
- Infinite reach
- New century
- Part three: Al-Qaeda comes home. Fifteen flying Saudis
- Fire
- Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
- Prodigal sons
- King Abdullah
- Girls of Saudi
- Illegitimate occupation
- End of the affair
- Condition of the people
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Sequel to: The Kingdom. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982, c1981.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780670021185
- 0670021180
- OCLC:
- 312445278
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