Pressestimmen
"[This book] not only gives one an understanding of the political history of Arabia between 1914-1927 but also helps to shed some light on contemporary political events in the Middle East... This book is definately an authoritative work. It is deep, well researched and an exciting must read for those interested in this field." - Shahrul Hussain, Marksfield Institute for Higher Education, UK; The Muslim World Book Review, 32:1, 2011
Kurzbeschreibung
This book is concerned with the creation of Saudi Arabia and in particular how it was closely linked to wider British foreign policy in the region. Overturning previous interpretations that sees the territorial expansion of the Saudi state as the result of carrying out an aggressive Wahhabi ideology by politically ambitious Ibn Saud, this book seeks to show that the creation of Saudi Arabia had been the outcome of the implementation of Britain's imperial policy system to achieve specific regional military and political objectives in the Middle East, within which the personality of Ibn Saud and his religious ideology of Wahhabism served as most effective policy instruments.
