Saudi Arabia: A Modern History
Autor David Comminsen Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 apr 2025
Saudi Arabia is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, a major player on the international stage and the site of Islam’s two holiest cities. It is also one of the world’s only absolute monarchies. How did Saudi Arabia get to where it is today?
In this comprehensive account, David Commins narrates the full history of Saudi Arabia from oasis emirate to present-day attempts to leap to a post-petroleum economy. Moving through the ages, Commins traces how the Saud dynasty’s reliance on sectarianism, foreign expertise, and petroleum to stabilize power has unintentionally spawned secular and religious movements seeking accountability and justice. He incorporates the experiences of activists, women, religious minorities, Bedouin, and expatriate workers as the country transformed from subsistence agrarian life to urban consumer society.
This is a perceptive portrait of Saudi Arabia’s complex and evolving story—and a country that is all too easily misunderstood.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780300258059
ISBN-10: 0300258054
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 20 color illus. + 3 maps
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 mm
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
ISBN-10: 0300258054
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 20 color illus. + 3 maps
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 mm
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
Recenzii
“Astounding in its scope and scale, Commins has produced a definitive historical account of the political, religious, and socio-economic forces that have shaped the development and subsequent growth of Saudi Arabia.”—Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, author of Qatar and the Gulf Crisis
“Commins documents the expansion of the House of Saud from a small oasis emirate to form one of the most powerful Arab states. He fills a major gap in our knowledge and will attract interest from all who want to understand the background against which the Kingdom currently reinvents itself.”—Ulrike Freitag, author of A History of Jeddah
“Often misunderstood or maligned, Saudi Arabia’s history receives an impartial inspection in David Commins’s penetrating book. The sectarian currents around the origins and evolution of the Wahhabi movement are deftly dissected while Nabati poetry and works of Saudi fiction are engaged to illustrate the impact of the kingdom’s transformation on its people.”—J.E. Peterson, author of Saudi Arabia Under Ibn Saud
“A rich, impressive and valuable book, which dispels many of the myths that surround the kingdom as it positions itself as a leading player in Middle Eastern and global politics.”—Simon Mabon, author of The Struggle for Supremacy in the Middle East
‘Commins has written the finest modern history of Saudi Arabia. He elegantly weaves together the strands that make up its story—religious doctrine, warfare, royal politics, social tensions, oil and economics, foreign influences and modern ideological movements—and in so doing offers the most sophisticated yet readable account for understanding this opaque society.’
Bernard Haykel, author of Saudi Arabia in Transition
“Commins documents the expansion of the House of Saud from a small oasis emirate to form one of the most powerful Arab states. He fills a major gap in our knowledge and will attract interest from all who want to understand the background against which the Kingdom currently reinvents itself.”—Ulrike Freitag, author of A History of Jeddah
“Often misunderstood or maligned, Saudi Arabia’s history receives an impartial inspection in David Commins’s penetrating book. The sectarian currents around the origins and evolution of the Wahhabi movement are deftly dissected while Nabati poetry and works of Saudi fiction are engaged to illustrate the impact of the kingdom’s transformation on its people.”—J.E. Peterson, author of Saudi Arabia Under Ibn Saud
“A rich, impressive and valuable book, which dispels many of the myths that surround the kingdom as it positions itself as a leading player in Middle Eastern and global politics.”—Simon Mabon, author of The Struggle for Supremacy in the Middle East
‘Commins has written the finest modern history of Saudi Arabia. He elegantly weaves together the strands that make up its story—religious doctrine, warfare, royal politics, social tensions, oil and economics, foreign influences and modern ideological movements—and in so doing offers the most sophisticated yet readable account for understanding this opaque society.’
Bernard Haykel, author of Saudi Arabia in Transition
Notă biografică
David Commins is the Benjamin Rush Chair in the Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor of history at Dickinson College. He is the author of Islam in Saudi Arabia, The Gulf States, and The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia.