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Saudi Arabia In The Oil Era - Regime And Elites; Conflict And Collaboration (Hardcover)
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Saudi Arabia In The Oil Era - Regime And Elites; Conflict And Collaboration (Hardcover)
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When I began a survey of source material for this book in the early
1980s, I was somewhat surprised by the paucity of sources relating
to socio-political dynamics in modem Saudi Arabia both in European
languages and Arabic. Thus, William Rugh's article 'Emergence of a
New Middle Class in Saudi Arabia' (1973), for instance, remains a
classic to this day. In the field of social anthropology I found
only a handful of serious studies of the Saudi population produced
by western and Arab scholars (Katakura, Lancaster, Cole, Shamekh,
and :tfamzah's outdated work). Other sources in Arabic largely
dealt with the kingdom's geography and tribal division, past
history to the twentieth century, the reign of Abd al-Aziz ibn
Saud, and the rise of the Wahhabi movement and its impact on the
Arabian Peninsula. The contribution of Saudi scholars of good
standing to the subject was minimal, as the Saudi modem elites were
beginning to emerge in the middle of the century and only lately
have they begun to publish worthwhile scholarly studies of their
society and government - studies inhibited, unfortunately, by the
character of the regime and its strict censorship laws.
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