Inside the Kingdom - Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists and Struggle for Saudi Arabia

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Saudi Arabia plays a crucial role in our interdependent 21st-century world. It is a country of wealth - the world's largest oil producer - whose princes and businessmen raise futuristic cities in the desert. Yet it is also notorious for producing fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 suicide bombers and fostering fundamentalist clerics who want to turn the clock back to the time of the Prophet Mohammed. More than twenty years after he first moved to the country to write about the Saudis, ... Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Lacey
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2011
• EAN: 9780099539056
• ISBN: 978-0-09-953905-6
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Arrow Books
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, 20th Century, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Middle East / Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Politics & government, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Politics and government, Asian History