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" Inside the Kingdom : "
Robert Lacey.
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BL
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1014112
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b768482
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Lacey, Robert
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Inside the Kingdom : : kings, clerics, modernists, terrorists, and the struggle for Saudi Arabia /\ Robert Lacey.
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New York :: Viking,, [2009]
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xxiii, 404 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations, map ;; 24 cm
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0143118277
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: 0670021180
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: 9780143118275
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: 9780670021185
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| Notes
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Sequel to: The Kingdom. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982, c1981.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-380) and index.
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| Contents
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Preface: Welcome to the Kingdom -- Note on the Islamic calendar -- pt. 1. Kingdom of God -- Angry face -- The brothers -- Siege -- No Sunni, no Shia -- Vox populi, vox Dei -- Salafi soccer -- Jihad in Afghanistan -- Special relationship -- Dawn visitors -- Stars in the heavens -- Into exile -- The dove and the East wind -- Vacationing Jihadi -- pt. 2. Kingdom at war -- Desert Storm -- Battle for al-Khafji -- Awakening -- Stopping the sins -- In from the cold -- Change of heart -- Enter the Crown Prince -- The students -- Infinite reach -- New century -- pt. 3. Al-Qaeda comes home -- Fifteen flying Saudis -- Fire -- Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula -- Prodigal sons -- King Abdullah -- Girls of Saudi -- Illegitimate occupation -- End of the affair -- Condition of the people -- Epilogue.
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Tracing a path through the Persian Gulf War and the events of 9/11 to the oil market convulsions of today, "Inside the Kingdom" gives readers a modern history of the Saudis in their own words, revealing a people attempting to reconcile life under religious law with the demands of a rapidly changing world.
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Lacey, Robert-- Travel-- Saudi Arabia.
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Lacey, Robert.
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Politics and government.
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Social conditions.
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Travel.
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Saudi Arabia, Description and travel.
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Saudi Arabia, History, 1932-
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Saudi Arabia, Politics and government, 1982-
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Saudi Arabia, Social conditions.
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Saudi Arabia.
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953.805/3
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DS244.63.L33 2009
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Lacey, Robert.
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