A HISTORY OF THE ARABIAN PENINSULA

The importance of this collection lies in its origins: for the first time, leading Saudi Arabian historians have created a history o f the Arabian Peninsula which analyses that history from an internal Arabian perspective. The book explores the original Bedouin set tlement of the region, the development of the major urban areas of Arabia during the Umayyad period, the socio-political and economi c developments in the Hijad and Najd up to the eighteenth century into the modern era and the rise and development of the Saudi stat e. This ...[Read more]