The Foreign Policy of Saudi Arabia: The Formative Years

by Jacob Goldberg

The rise of the House of Saud in the mid-eighteenth century led to the creation of two successive Saudi states which were supported by two key groups, the religious Wahhabi and the dynastic Saudi. The central objective in the relationship between these groups was to convert the population to Wahhabism, with the Saudi dynasty providing the military and political power to wage wars of occupation and proselytism. The major conclusion of this book...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674281837
• ISBN13: 9780674281837
• Release Date: February 1986
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"