Author : Chibli Mallat
Release : 2021
Genre : Law
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Normalization of Saudi Arabian Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Normalization of Saudi Arabian Law write by Chibli Mallat. This book was released on 2021. Normalization of Saudi Arabian Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "At the turn of the 20th century, a minor principality with a kingly ambition emerged from the victorious occupation of the strategic town of Riyadh by a small group of warriors led by a young man, 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn 'Abd al-Rahman Al Faysal Al Sa'ud. In the qualification of the city-oasis - riyad in Arabic is plural for rawda, green pasture, meadow, orchard - the word 'strategic' is retrospective. No one paid attention to yet another raid in the middle of the Arabian desert - a ghazwa, the tribal conquest of time immemorial. The raiders were local protagonists, according to Saudi lore some sixty members of the followers of ibn Saud, as he became known in the West many years later, battling their Rashid rivals whom they dislodged from the oasis and its surroundings. It seemed then to be the continuation of a small, insignificant turf war between tribal protagonists who had been at it for at least two centuries"--