Our Battle in Arabia
Author: Arabian Mission
Publisher:
Published: 1912
Total Pages: 55
ISBN-13:
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The Battle for Saudi Arabia
Author: As'Ad Abukhalil
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2011-01-04
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1609801733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power , Professor As`ad AbuKhalil confronts the contradictory nature of Saudi Arabia—questions that both the Saudi government, long shrouded in mystery, and the United States government, ever protective of its own interests, seem unwilling to answer. In this unsparing probe into the history and power structure of the kingdom, Professor AbuKhalil, author of Bin Laden, Islam, and America’s New "War on Terrorism", affords the reader unique insight into the intense friction that underlies the increasingly precarious balance between the Saudi royal family and the fundamentalist clerical establishment.
Lawrence of Arabia's War
Author: Neil Faulkner
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-05-24
Total Pages: 557
ISBN-13: 0300219458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis radically new perspective on T. E. Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and WWI in the Middle East provides essential insight into today’s violent conflicts. Archaeologist and historian Neil Faulkner draws on ten years of field research in the Middle East to offer the first truly multidisciplinary history of the conflicts that raged in Sinai, Arabia, Palestine, and Syria during the First World War. Rarely is a book published that revises our understanding of an entire world region and the history that has defined it. This groundbreaking volume makes just such a contribution. In Lawrence of Arabia’s War, Faulkner sheds new light on British intelligence officer T. E. Lawrence and his legendary military campaigns. He explores the intersections among the declining Ottoman Empire, the Bedouin tribes, rising Arab nationalism, and Western imperial ambition. Faulkner arrives at a provocative new analysis of Ottoman resilience in the face of modern industrialized warfare. This analysis leads him to reassesses the relative weight of conventional operations in Palestine and irregular warfare in Syria—and thus the historic roots of today’s divided, fractious, war-torn Middle East.
Itinerant Jihadis
Author: Raphael Israeli
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Published: 2017-11-04
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 1681819821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe watch with amazement the Muslim Jihadists of our time, moving from one killing field to another, mobilized, physically and spiritually for the cause of Islam, and risking their lives to accomplish a goal that usually escapes us. It turns out this practice took root since the inception of Islam, and that its miraculous expansion worldwide was due to a great extent to the masses of volunteers who sprang out of Arabia, heading westward until North Africa and the Atlantic, and on the other hand, to the Iberian Peninsula, and on that side of the globe, they conquered the Middle East, Asia Minor, and Central Asia in a sweep the world has known since the Roman Empire. The process of Islam expansion has also produced the great Islamic Empires of the Umayyads, Abbasids, Fatimids, the Muwahhidun of North Africa and Iberia, the Ottoman in the Middle East and the Balkans, and the Moghuls of India. Even after the Islamic empires were defeated and colonized, and from their point of view victimized and humiliated, the revived Islam continued to witness vast movement of volunteer Jihadis, flocking to Afghanistan, then to Iraq and Syria. In contemporary Islam, that movement has come to embrace large numbers of Western Muslims from Europe and the Americas, who have been swept by the exciting idea of a revived Caliphate.
The Battle of Tours
Author: 50minutes,
Publisher: 50Minutes.com
Published: 2016-04-26
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 2806273129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKeen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Battle of Tours in next to no time with this concise guide. 50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Battle of Tours. In the year 732, Christian Frankish and Burgundian troops under Charles Martel clashed with soldiers from the Muslim Umayyad Caliphate. The Frankish victory turned back the Muslim advance into Europe and ensured that Christianity remained the major religion of Europe, in this way shaping the course of history in the region for centuries to come. In just 50 minutes you will: • Understand the historical context that led to the outbreak of the conflict • Identify the main leaders and forces that took part in the conflict • Analyse the outcome of the battle and its impact on the course of European history ABOUT 50MINUTES.COM | History & Culture 50MINUTES.COM will enable you to quickly understand the main events, people, conflicts and discoveries from world history that have shaped the world we live in today. Our publications present the key information on a wide variety of topics in a quick and accessible way that is guaranteed to save you time on your journey of discovery.
The US, the UK and Saudi Arabia in World War II
Author: Matthew Hinds
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781350989351
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The story of Anglo-American relations in Saudi Arabia during the Second World War has generally been viewed as one of discord and hegemonic rivalry, a perspective reinforced by a tendency to consider Britain's decline and the ascent of US power as inevitable. In this engaging and timely study, Matthew Hinds calls into question such assumptions and reveals a relationship that, though hard-nosed, functioned through interdependence and strategic parity. Drawing upon an array of archives from both sides of the Atlantic, Hinds traces the flow of key events and policies as well as the leading figures who shaped events to show why, how and to what extent the allies and Saudi Arabia became 'mixed up together', in the words of Winston Churchill. Perhaps most fundamentally, Britain and the United States were enthralled by the promise of Saudi Arabia serving as an auxiliary to Allied strategy. Obtaining King Ibn Saud's tacit support or more specifically, his 'benevolent neutrality', meant having vital access, not only to the country's prospective oil reserves, but to its prized geographic location, its centrality within Islam and, as international politics increasingly followed an anti-colonial path, to its credentials as a sovereign and independent Arab state. Given what was at stake, London and Washington saw their engagement in Saudi Arabia as seminal; a genuine blueprint for how to forge a lasting 'Special Relationship' throughout the Middle East. Hinds' bold new interpretation is a vital work that enlarges our understanding of the Anglo-American wartime alliance."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
My People Shall Fight!
Author: George Hajjar
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 736
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Author: R. H. Lieshout
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9781350985575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe profound effects of the British Empire's actions in the Arab World during the First World War can be seen echoing through the history of the 20th century. The uprising sparked by the Husayn-McMahon correspondence and led by 'Lawrence of Arabia'; the Sykes-Picot agreement which undermined that rebellion; and memoranda such as the Balfour Declaration all have shaped the Middle East into forms which would have been unrecognizable to the diplomats of the 19th century. Undertaken during the First 'World' War, these actions were not part of a coordinated British strategy, but in fact directed by several overlapping and competing departments, some imperfectly referred to as the 'Arab Bureau'. The British and the Middle East is unique in its comprehensive treatment of how and why the British generals and diplomats acted as they did. By taking as his starting point the voluminous, contradictory and revealing records of the policy-makers in the British government, Robert H. Lieshout shows convincingly that many concerned with foreign policy making were quite oblivious to the history and complexities of the Islamic World.Covering the full sweep of British involvement in Arabia, Lieshout makes a lasting contribution to our understanding of the period in which the British Empire changed the world, and shows how shallow and confused the understanding of those that shaped the future of the Middle East really was.
My War
Author: Kathleen Cochran
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Published: 2013-04-27
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781484067758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an account of my family's experiences living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, during Desert Shield/Storm (later known as the First Gulf War) in 1990-1991. My husband was an Infantry officer with the U.S. Army and I was a teacher at an Arabic Women's Language School. Our children attended the International School. It was a year of challenges and amazing opportunities. It was the year of my war, the one I lived through.
COLONEL JOHN BROWN
Author: Garret L. Roof
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Published: 2016-08-25
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9781361532027
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