Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the Arabic.

Migrations of the Banū Ḥanifa to other Islamic regions during the Umayyad period / Abd Allāh Ibrāhīm al-Askar -- Industry in Najd and Hijaz in the Umayyad period / Abd Allāh Muḥammad as-Sayf -- Al-Dir Iyya : landmarks and ruins / Abd Allāh ibn Khamīs -- Najd from the tenth/sixteenth century until the rise of Sheikh Muḥammad ibn Abd al-Wahhāb / Abd Allāh al-Ṣāliḥ al-Uthaymīn -- Muḥammad ibn Abd al-Wahhāb and his call for montheism / Al-Tihāmi Nuqrā -- The personal letters of Sheikh Muḥammad ibn Abd al-Wahhāb / Abd Allāh al-Ṣāliḥ al-Uthaymīn -- The effect of Muḥammad ibn Abd al-Wahhāb's Salafiyya dawa on religious and social reform in Egypt / Abd al-Raḥīm Abdulrahman Abd al-Raḥīm -- The rise of Muḥammad ibn Abd al-Wahhāb's dawa in the southern Arabian Peninsula / Abd Allāḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Abū Dāhish -- Glimpses of Hijazi history at the beginning of the first Saudi state / Aḥmad Fuād Mitwallī -- Origins of Saudi history : an introduction to methodology and attitude / Abd al-Hafiz Abd al-Fattah Qari -- Success of King Abdul Aziz in unifying the country / Abd Allāh al-Ṣāliḥ al-Uthaymīn -- King Abdul Aziz : his style of administration / Abd Al-Aziz ibn Abd Allāh al-Khwaiter -- Early roots of projects to settle the Bedouins in the Arabian Peninsula / Abd al-Fattāḥ Ḥasan Abū Aliyya -- Arab travellers in the Arabian Peninsula : Saudi Arabia 1901-1972 / Manṣūr Ibrāhīm al-Ḥazimī -- Soviet diplomacy in Hijaz : first move into the Arabian Peninsula 1923-1926 / Vitali Naumkin -- History of architecture in the city of Riyadh / Zāhir ibn Abd al-Raḥmān Uthmān.

"The importance of this collection lies in its origins: for the first time, leading Saudi Arabian historians have created a history of the Arabian Peninsula which analyses that history from an internal Arabian perspective. The book explores the original Bedouin settlement of the region, the development of the major urban areas of Arabia during the Umayyad period, the socio-political and economic developments in the Hijad and Najd up to the eighteenth century into the modern era and the rise and development of the Saudi state. This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the history of the Arabian Peninsula, not least because it provides a perspective from and a flavour of its local origins." -- Publisher description.

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