Unholy Kingdom - Religion, Corruption and Violence in Saudi Arabia

Religion, oil, and war bent to the House of Saud’s will to dominate Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East

About the author

Malise Ruthven worked as an editor with the BBC Arabic Service and World Service in London before teaching Islamic studies and comparative religion at universities on both sides of the Atlantic. He is the author of several books on Islamic affairs as well as fundamentalism and religion in America. In 2004, London's Prospect Magazine ranked Ruthven among the 100 top public intellectuals in the UK. His blog on the New York Review of Books, Revolution by Latrine, won an award from the Overseas Press Club of America in 2011. He contributes regularly to the Times Literary Supplement, the Financial Times, the New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books.

Product details

• Authors: Ruthven Malise
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 24.02.2026
• EAN: 9781839760112
• ISBN: 978-1-83976-011-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Weight: 250 g
• Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Middle East, HISTORY / Middle East / Arabian Peninsula, Middle Eastern history, Arabian Peninsula