A history of the Arabian Peninsula /
edited by Fahd al-Semmari ; translated by Salma K. Jayyusi.
- London ; New York : [Riyadh, Saudi Arabia] : New York : I.B. Tauris Publishers ; In association with the King Abdul Aziz Foundation ; Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- viii, 312 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Migrations of the Banū Ḥanifa to other Islamic regions during the Umayyad period / Industry in Najd and Hijaz in the Umayyad period / Al-Dir Iyya : landmarks and ruins / Najd from the tenth/sixteenth century until the rise of Sheikh Muḥammad ibn Abd al-Wahhāb / Muḥammad ibn Abd al-Wahhāb and his call for montheism / The personal letters of Sheikh Muḥammad ibn Abd al-Wahhāb / The effect of Muḥammad ibn Abd al-Wahhāb's Salafiyya dawa on religious and social reform in Egypt / The rise of Muḥammad ibn Abd al-Wahhāb's dawa in the southern Arabian Peninsula / Glimpses of Hijazi history at the beginning of the first Saudi state / Origins of Saudi history : an introduction to methodology and attitude / Success of King Abdul Aziz in unifying the country / King Abdul Aziz : his style of administration / Early roots of projects to settle the Bedouins in the Arabian Peninsula / Arab travellers in the Arabian Peninsula : Saudi Arabia 1901-1972 / Soviet diplomacy in Hijaz : first move into the Arabian Peninsula 1923-1926 / History of architecture in the city of Riyadh / Abd Allāh Ibrāhīm al-Askar -- Abd Allāh Muḥammad as-Sayf -- Abd Allāh ibn Khamīs -- Abd Allāh al-Ṣāliḥ al-Uthaymīn -- Al-Tihāmi Nuqrā -- Abd Allāh al-Ṣāliḥ al-Uthaymīn -- Abd al-Raḥīm Abdulrahman Abd al-Raḥīm -- Abd Allāḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Abū Dāhish -- Aḥmad Fuād Mitwallī -- Abd al-Hafiz Abd al-Fattah Qari -- Abd Allāh al-Ṣāliḥ al-Uthaymīn -- Abd Al-Aziz ibn Abd Allāh al-Khwaiter -- Abd al-Fattāḥ Ḥasan Abū Aliyya -- Manṣūr Ibrāhīm al-Ḥazimī -- Vitali Naumkin -- 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.
Translated from the Arabic.
9781845116880 (hbk.) 1845116887 (hbk.)
Bedouins--History.--Arabian Peninsula
Arabian Peninsula--History. Arabian Peninsula--Civilization.