Inside the Kingdom
Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia
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- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2010
Summary
Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox. It sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the country’s roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 9⁄11 hijackers. It is a modern state, driven by contemporary technology, and yet its powerful religious establishment would have its customs and practices rolled back to match those of the Prophet Muhammed over a thousand years ago. In a world where events in the Middle East continue to have geopolitical consequen…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099539056 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099539055 |
| Author: | Robert Lacey |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2010 |
| Weight: | 328g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 32mm |
| Series: | Arrow Books |
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Beautifully written and thought-provoking … Robert Lacey has written a highly accomplished book which should go into the bags of anyone who has to travel to the kingdom
Beautifully written and thought-provoking … Robert Lacey has written a highly accomplished book which should go into the bags of anyone who has to travel to the kingdom * Literary Review *
Compelling … [I] know of no book that captures so convincingly the intimate connection between the kingdom and the rise of al-Qaeda and its jihadist ideology…What distinguishes Mr Lacey’s account is his use of Saudi voices - many of them, even in this most reticent of cultures, on the record - to anatomise a deeply rooted culture of intolerance * Economist *
Incisive … The real triumph of this book … is the way it peels away the layers of mystery that shroud a civil society of which we have almost no knowledge * Sunday Times *
About The Author
Robert Lacey
Robert Lacey is a British journalist and the author of the bestselling books Majesty and Ford- The Men and the Machine, among others. In 1979, he moved with his family to Saudi Arabia for eighteen months to research his book, The Kingdom, an eye-opening and penetrating study of that country’s complex and often paradoxical culture. For the past three years he has split his time between Saudi Arabia and London, gathering material for this book.
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