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Author | : A M Vasilev |
Publisher | : Saqi |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2014-05-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0863567797 |
How has Saudi Arabia managed to maintain its Arab and Islamic values while at the same time adopting Western technology and a market economy? How have its hereditary leaders, who govern with a mixture of political pragmatism and religious zeal, managed to maintain their power? This comprehensive history of Saudi Arabia from 1745 to the present provides insight into its culture and politics, its powerful oil industry, its relations with its neighbours, and the ongoing influence of the Wahhabi movement. Based on a wealth of Arab, American, British, Western and Eastern European sources, this book will stand as the definitive account of the largest state on the Arabian peninsula.
Author | : Robert G. Hoyland |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134646348 |
Long before Muhammed preached the religion of Islam, the inhabitants of his native Arabia had played an important role in world history as both merchants and warriors Arabia and the Arabs provides the only up-to-date, one-volume survey of the region and its peoples, from prehistory to the coming of Islam Using a wide range of sources - inscriptions, poetry, histories, and archaeological evidence - Robert Hoyland explores the main cultural areas of Arabia, from ancient Sheba in the south, to the deserts and oases of the north. He then examines the major themes of *the economy *society *religion *art, architecture and artefacts *language and literature *Arabhood and Arabisation The volume is illustrated with more than 50 photographs, drawings and maps.
Author | : Issa Boulos |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2021-09-07 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0253057523 |
Music in Arabia extends and challenges existing narratives of the region's distinctive but understudied music to reveal diverse and dynamic music cultures rooted in centuries-old heritage. Contributors to Music in Arabia bring a critical eye and ear to the contemporary soundscape, musical life, and expressive culture in the Gulf region. Including work by leading scholars and local authorities, this collection presents fresh perspectives and new research addressing why musical expression is fundamental to the area's diverse, transnational communities. The volume also examines music circulation as a commodity, such as with the production of early recordings, the transnational music industry, the context of the Arab Spring, and the region's popular music markets. As a bonus, readers can access a linked website containing audiovisual examples of the music, dance, and expressive culture introduced throughout the book. With the work of resident scholars and heritage practitioners in conversation with that of researchers from the United States and Europe, Music in Arabia offers both context and content to clarify how music articulates identity and nation among multiethnic, multiracial, and multinational populations.
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Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1834 |
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Author | : Thorkild Hansen |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2017-06-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1681370735 |
Discover the riveting true story of the 18th-century expedition that left only one survivor in this lost classic of adventure and travel writing—with 33 drawings and maps. Arabia Felix is the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously awry. On a winter morning in 1761 6 men leave Copenhagen by sea—a botanist, a philologist, an astronomer, a doctor, an artist, and their manservant—an ill-assorted band of men who dislike and distrust one another from the start. These are the members of the Danish expedition to Arabia Felix, as Yemen was then known, the first organized foray into a corner of the world unknown to Europeans. The expedition made its way to Turkey and Egypt, by which time its members were already actively seeking to undercut and even kill one another, before disappearing into the harsh desert that was their destination. Nearly 7 years later a single survivor returned to Denmark to find himself forgotten and all the specimens that had been sent back ruined by neglect. Based on diaries, notebooks, and sketches that lay unread in Danish archives until the twentieth century, Arabia Felix is a tale of intellectual rivalry and a comedy of very bad manners, as well as an utterly absorbing adventure.
Author | : Glen Warren Bowersock |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674777569 |
The Roman province of Arabia occupied a crucial corner of the Mediterranean world, encompassing most of what is now Jordan, southern Syria, northwest Saudi Arabia, and the Negev. Mr. Bowersock's book is the first authoritative history of the region from the fourth century B.C. to the age of Constantine. The book opens with the arrival of the Nahataean Arabs in their magnificent capital at Petra and describes the growth of their hellenized culture based on trade in perfume and spices. It traces the transformation of the region from an Arab kingdom under Roman influence into an imperial province, one that played an increasingly important role in the Roman strategy for control of the Near East. While the primary emphasis is on the relations of the Arabs of the region with the Romans, their interactions with neighboring states, Jewish, Egyptian, and Syrian, are also stressed. The narrative concludes with the breakup of the Roman province at the start of the Byzantine age.
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Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Saudi Arabia |
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Author | : Hunt Janin |
Publisher | : Marshall Cavendish |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780761416661 |
Introduces the geography, history, economy, cultures, and people of Saudi Arabia.
Author | : IBP, Inc. |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2016-07-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1514506041 |
Saudi Arabia Mineral, Mining Sector Investment and Business Guide - Strategic Information and Regulations
Author | : Sherifa Zuhur |
Publisher | : Strategic Studies Institute |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Islamic fundamentalism |
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This monograph examines the emergence and progress of an Islamist threat in Saudi Arabia and the simultaneous development of other forces for political change, and assesses the strategic situation in the Kingdom in light of the regional war on terrorism.