The author was first introduced to Persian studies when, as a ‘Student Interpreter’ in the Levant Consular Service, he studied Arabic, Persian and Tur..
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This book seeks to unsettle current conversations within Arab American Studies that neglect aesthetics as a set of choices and constrain..
The history of western notions about Islam is of obvious scholarly as well as popular interest today. This book investigates Christian images of the M..
H.R.P. Dickson had the good fortune to spend many years among the Badawin, living and travelling with them as one of them in their own tents. In this ..
Saudi Arabia is no longer regarded as quite the invincible pillar of Islam it so recently seemed. Its authority within the Islamic world has been chal..
The MERI Reports on the Middle East quickly established themselves as the most authoritative and up-to-date information on the state of affairs in the..
The sharp increase in both the price of crude oil and resulting revenues to Saudi Arabia has seen the rapid growth of the kingdom’s international trad..
Saudi Arabia has undergone a rapid social and economic transformation. When Ibn Saud declared the nation a unified kingdom in 1932, the majority of it..
Saudi Arabia is one of the most important countries in the modern world. Not only does it possess some 25 per cent of the world’s proven oil reserves,..
Saudi Arabia’s strategic relations with the West involve clear and direct common strategic interests in the Gulf and in the Near East. While they comp..