Titlebook: Saudi Arabia; The Shape of a Clien Geoff Simons Book 1998 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1998 bibliography.

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e influence of Mohammed, the Saudi ascendancy, the role of the West, the discovery of oil and the wars in the region. Finally attention is given to the various (economic/political/religious) problems that today face the Saudi regime and to the Saudi response.978-0-333-99467-2

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Religious Rootsthe rivers evaporated, and little survived of the rich flora and fauna. Now, with the fossils and dried-up riverbeds (.) telling of a different past, the land was little else than desert and desolation.

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The Oil Statebian peninsula was set to have an immense local and global impact. This was not primarily because of the singular qualities of Ibn Saud, a formidable leader (but also, in world terms, an ignorant man), but because of oil.

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Conquest and Declineof Islam an ideology had been erected for the common man. There were no sacraments or priests; no redeemer or saviour was interposed between devotee and godhead; ordinary men (and, with less emphasis, women) were supposedly brought into direct contact with the supernatural Absolute.

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Saudi Ascendancy House of Saud. The state so constituted in the early 1930s is not the only one today that bears the name of one particular dynastic line. We also have The . Kingdom of Jordan, less frequently remarked, and among the 200-plus states of the world there may be others whose names derive from unique family ascendancy.