Malise Ruthven

Unholy Kingdom (eBook, ePUB)

Religion, Corruption and Violence in Saudi Arabia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The American University in Cairo Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839760129
• Artikelnr.: 72720007

Autorenporträt

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 Guardian, Independent, The Financial Times, New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books.

Inhaltsangabe

Map
1. Murder in Istanbul
2. The Wahhabi Mission
3. Ibn Saud Founder of a Kingdom
4. Petroleum and Patriarchy
5. Managing the Ulama and Mismanaging the Hajj
6. Conflicting Currents
7. A Sectarian Outreach
8. Arms and Benefits
9. Family Values
10. Terraforming Arabia
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index