Author: Sir Lewis PellyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Report on a Journey to Riyadh in Central Arabia, 1865
Author: Sir Lewis PellyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Report on a Journey to Riyadh in Central Arabia (1865).
Author: Report on a Journey to Riyadh in Central Arabia
Author: Sir Lewis PellyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781909349919
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Reprint of the 1866 ed. printed for government at the Education Society's Press, Byculla, Bombay, and published under the title: Report on a journey to the Wahabee capital of Riyadh in Central Arabia. With an introduction by R.L. Bidwell of the Middle East Centre, University of Cambridge. Part of the Oleander Classics series, this title has been reproduced using the highest-quality modern scanning technology. This is done in order to keep important works from the Press's 50-year history from going out of print. In this way, the invaluable resources provided by this and other books in the series remain available for general readers, academics and other interested parties.
Getting God's Ear
Author: Eleanor Abdella DoumatoPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231116671
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
A detailed study of the role of religious worship and spiritual affairs in women's lives in the twentieth-century Arab world.
Historical Dictionary of Saudi Arabia
Author: J.E. PetersonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538119803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia now has been under the spotlight of Western curiosity for more than 80 years. More than 15% of the world’s total oil reserves lie underneath Saudi Arabia and, in the early 1990s, the kingdom became the world’s largest crude oil producer. Not surprisingly, a world highly dependent on oil regards the desert kingdom as an area of intense strategic concern, as reflected in the coalition of forces assembled on Saudi soil to oust Iraq from Kuwait in 1991. Also, it played a major role in the invasion of Saddam Husayn’s Iraq in 2003 and shares concern with the West over Iran’s nuclear intentions throughout the 21st century. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Saudi Arabia contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Saudi Arabia.
The Accidental Tourist, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, and the British Invasion of Egypt in 1882
Author: Michael D. BerdinePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000143597
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This fascinating account highlights the extent the world's major powers will go to as they seek to insure their own interests and agendas, despite the wishes of those whose countries they invade and occupy. The Accidental Tourist profiles Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's involvement in the so-called Arabi Revolt in 1882. It addresses Blunt's tireless efforts on behalf of the Egyptian Nationalists to mediate the differences between Britain and Egypt and prevent a British invasion of Egypt. It highlights what amounted to a government cover-up of the actions of certain governmental officials to precipitate the invasion by falsifying intelligence information and manipulating the press. It also takes to task the scholarly tradition of maligning Blunt and questioning the accuracy of his version of the events of 1882. Blunt was branded a traitor in the House of Commons. This book was written to set the record straight. It is ideal reading for those interested in the field of Middle Eastern, Imperial or Colonial history and will provide readers with a better understanding of the real story of imperialism that went on at the time and is still going on in the Middle East today.
The Emergence of the Gulf States
Author: J. E. PetersonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472587626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017 The Emergence of the Gulf States covers the history of the Gulf from the 18th century to the late 20th century. Employing a broad perspective, the volume brings together experts in the field to consider the region's political, economic and social development. The contributions address key themes including the impact of early history, religious movements, social structures, identity and language, imperialism, 20th-century economic transformation and relations with the wider Indian Ocean and Arab world. The work as a whole provides a new interpretive approach based on new research coupled with extensive reviews of the relevant literature. It offers a valuable contribution to the knowledge of the area and sets a new standard for the future scholarship and understanding of this vital region.
Transnational Connections and the Arab Gulf
Author: Madawi Al-RasheedPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415331358
Category : Arabian Gulf Region
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This book challenges the definitions of globalisation and transnationalism as a one way process generated mainly by the Western World and the view that the latter is a twentieth century phenomenon.
Slavery and Manumission
Author: Jerzy ZdanowskiPublisher: Ithaca Press (GB)
ISBN: 9780863724381
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
"I am a free-born woman, and not a slave of anyone," Manuy bint Khalfan, Speaking to a British Agency in Sharjah on 24th October 1938. Manuy bint Khalfan was a female slave who was sold and mortgaged several times before she finally escaped from her master.
The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj
Author: James OnleyPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191607762
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj is a study of one of the most forbidding frontier zones of Britain's Indian Empire. The Gulf Residency, responsible for Britain's relationship with Eastern Arabia and Southern Persia, was part of an extensive network of political residencies that surrounded and protected British India. Based on extensive archival research in both the Gulf and Britain, this book examines how Britain's Political Resident in the Gulf and his very small cadre of British officers maintained the Pax Britannica on the waters of the Gulf, protected British interests throughout the region, and managed political relations with the dozens of Arab rulers and governors on both shores of the Gulf. James Onley looks at the secret to the Gulf Residency's effectiveness - the extent to which the British worked within the indigenous political systems of the Gulf. He examines the way in which Arab rulers in need of protection collaborated with the Resident to maintain the Pax Britannica, while influential men from affluent Arab, Persian, and Indian merchant families served as the Resident's 'native agents' (compradors) in over half of the political posts within the Gulf Residency.