Saudi Arabian Modernization
Author: John A. Shaw
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 136
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Author: John A. Shaw
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Willard A. Beling
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-13
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 0429728050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe late King Faisal bin Abdul Aziz was born in Riyadh in 1905/6, several years after his father Abdulaziz Ibn Saud had recaptured it from Ibn Rashid. In 1964 he became king of Saudi Arabia, famous for harbouring twenty five percent of the world's oil reserves and hailed as the most powerful Arab ruler in centuries. In 1975, his nephew shot him in
Author: John A. Shaw
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Published: 1982
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Muhammad Al-Atawneh
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-06-14
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9004185704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines Dār al-Iftā, the official Saudi religious establishment for issuing fatwas, between 1971 and 1999. Specifically, it explores the challenges that this scholarly body encountered when applying Wahhābī interpretations of the Shari'a to late twentieth-century modernity.
Author: Jack Howell Thompson
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 286
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Fouad Al-Farsy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 1136152660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1990. A country’s development does not take place in a vacuum and it was therefore essential in this earlier work that the main subject (the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s development) should be set into an historical, political and social context. The original edition includes a summary of this background information, starting with the Kingdom’s geographical location and proceeding with a brief account of its history, its political importance and its role in the world economy. Within this context, is described the development and progress of what the Kingdom had achieved, outlining the country’s governmental structure, its administrative divisions, its available investment potential, its prevailing legal and commercial regulations, and its future plans and ambitions. This new book, which has been structured to encompass all aspects of the Kingdom’s development, contains the latest statistical data on the Kingdom’s progress, together with the newly revised background information of the former book. Thus each of the books complements the other, for each records the relevant information at a particular stage in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s continuing developmental process.
Author: D. E. Long
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Published: 1982
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ellen R. Wald
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2018-04-03
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 1681777185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the most profitable company in the world, Saudi Aramco, and the story behind the family that ruthlessly maneuvered to control this multi-trillion dollar enterprise. The Saudi royal family and Aramco leadership are, and almost always have been, motivated by ambitions of long-term strength and profit. They use Islamic law, traditional ideology, and harsh justice to maintain stability and their own power, but underneath the thobes and abayas and behind the religious fanaticism and illiberalism lies a most sophisticated and ruthless business enterprise. Today, that corporation is poised to pull off the biggest IPO in history. Over more than a century, fed by ambition and oil wealth, al Saud, as the royal family is known, has come from next to nothing to rule as absolute monarchs, a contrast with the world around them and modernity itself. The story starts with Saudi Arabia's founder, Abdul Aziz, a lowly refugee embarking on a daring gambit to reconquer his family's ancestral home?the mud-walled city of Riyadh. It takes readers almost to present day, when the multinational family business has made al Saud the wealthiest family in the world and on the cusp of a new transformation. Now al Saud and its family business, Aramco, are embarking on their most ambitious move: taking the company public and preparing the country for the next generation.
Author: Robert C. Vasile
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Saudi leadership has greatly emphasized economic development in modernization efforts. Though development is readily measured in economic terms, the social impact of modernization is even more critical. Rapid changes in the configuration of power among elites can evoke a period of political instability which may invite foreign intervention. Personal interviews with Saudis coupled with general trends indicate changes in values and behavior among the society. As the momentum of modernization increases, risks of disorientation and elite confrontation become inevitable. Dual standards of behavior currently suggest a transition from traditional values to modernity. The loss of tradition in Saudi Arabia removes the legitimacy of the monarchy. Accomodation of innovations will require greater dependence upon bureaucratic and military elites by the ruling family. Such reconfiguration of power will serve to alienate the conservative elites and promote unrest among the populace. Added flexibility in government must be introduced at this stage or future problems will arise beyond the cure of money. (Author).
Author: Fouad Farsy
Publisher: Panarc International Limited
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 360
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