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The book traces religious and political transformations, including Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab’s teachings, the rise and fall of early Saudi emirates, and later centralization efforts. It further examines major geopolitical shifts, domestic and foreign policy, oil concessions, and socio-economic change across the oil era, supported by notes, bibliography, glossary, maps, and index.","THE HISTORY OFSAUDI ARABIA  \nAlexei Vassiliev  \nNEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESSWashington Square,New York  \nFirst published in the U.S.A.in 2000 byNEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESSWashington SquareNew York,NY 10003  \n◎2000 by Saqi Books Publishers,LondonAll rights reserved  \nManufactured in the United Kingdom  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataVasil'ev,A.M.(Aleksei Mikhailovich)  \nThe History of Saudi Arabia/Alexei Vassiliev.p.cm.  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.ISBN0-8147-8809-2(Pbk.:alk.paper)  \n1.Saudi Arabia--History.I.Title.DS242.H292000953.8--dc2100-041891  \nContents  \nA Note on the Spelling and Transliteration System7List of Abbreviations and AcronymsSimplified Genealogy of the House of Saud10  \n8  \n11  \nNotes on Sources  \nPart One  \n1.Arabia on the Eve of the Emergence of Wahhabism:Economy,Society,Politics  \n29  \n64  \n2.Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and his Teaching  \n83  \n3.The Rise of the First Saudi State(1745-1811)  \n4.The Social and Political System of the Emirate of al-Diriya  \n112  \n5.The Wahhabis Routed by the Egyptians(1811-1818)  \n140  \n6.From the Fallof al-Diriya to the Egyptian Evacuation of Arabia  \n(1818-1840)  \n158  \n7.The Second Saudi State(1843-1865)  \n174  \n8.The Disintegration of the Emirate of Riyadh and the Rise ofJabal Shammar  \n192  \n9.The Renaissance of the Emirate of Riyadh in the EarlyTwentieth Century(1902-1914)210  \n10.Najd and Hijaz during the First World War(1914-1918)  \n235  \nContents  \nPart Two  \n11.The Consolidation of the Arabian Territories around Najd(1918-1926)  \n12.Increased Centralization and the Ikhwan Movement(1926-1934)  \n13.The Socio-political Structure of Saudi Arabia after its Creation  \n14.The Oil Concessions  \n15.Saudi Arabia and the Second World War(1939-1945)  \n16.Domestic and Foreign Policy(1945-1958)  \n17.The Struggle for Fower and its Outcome(1958-1973)  \n18.Domestic and Foreign Policy(the 1970s and the early 1980s)  \n19.The Socio-economic Structure of Saudi Arabia in the Oil Era(the 1950s to the early 1980s)  \n20.The Political Regime(the 1950s to the early 1980s)  \n21.Economy,Society,Politics(the 1980s and the 1990s)  \nConclusion  \nNotes  \nBibliography  \nGlossary  \nIndex  \nMap 1.Arabia circa 1939Map 2.The Arabian Peninsula  \n253  \n268  \n287  \n312  \n321  \n328  \n354  \n393  \n401  \n436  \n452  \n474  \n483  \n538  \n558  \n565  \n28  \n# A Note on the Spelling andTransliteration System\n\nSince the text contains an abundance of Arabic names,it was decided to avoid a fullytransliterated system;thus no diacritical marks are used.They would have made the textunnecessarily complicated for the reader who has no knowledge of Arabic,whereas theArabist will easily deduce the true Arabic form.  \nIn the Arabic 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retained.Theoriginal spelling has been retained in quotations from English-language works,but thevariants employed by the authors(such as Kassem for Qasim)are not included in theindexes.  \n# Abbreviations and Acronyms\n\nADair defenceALCOArabian-Italian Engineering ContractorsAramcoArabian-American Oil Com","cbCaieGuJnAdHarY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieGuJnAdHarY","pdf",12560528,4,1,576,"English","en",105,"# A Note on the Spelling and Transliteration System\n# List of Abbreviations and Acronyms\n# Simplified Genealogy of the House of Saud\n# Part One\n## Arabia on the Eve of the Emergence of Wahhabism: Economy, Society, Politics\n## Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and his Teaching\n## The Rise of the First Saudi State (1745-1811)\n## The Social and Political System of the Emirate of al-Diriya\n## The Wahhabis Routed by the Egyptians (1811-1818)\n## From the Fall of al-Diriya to the Egyptian Evacuation of Arabia (1818-1840)\n## The Second Saudi State (1843-1865)\n## The Disintegration of 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