Helen Chapin Metz, ed. Saudi Arabia: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress,
1992.
Acknowledgments
Preface
History
The Setting of Saudi Arabia
Pre-Islamic Period
The Early Islamic Period
The Middle Ages
The Saud Family and Wahhabi Islam
Nineteenth-Century Arabia
The Rise of Abd Al Aziz
The Rule of Abd Al Aziz
The Reigns of Saud and Faisal
The Reign of Khalid
The Reign of Fahd
Geography
Topography and Natural Regions
Climate
The Environment and the 1991 Persian Gulf War
The Society
POPULATION
Saudis and Non-Saudis
Diversity and Social Stratification
Cultural Homogeneity and Values
Structure of Tribal Groupings
Tribe and Monarchy
Beduin Economy in Tradition and Change
RELIGION
Early Development of Islam
Tenets of Sunni Islam
Wahhabi Theology
Shia
Islamism in Saudi Arabia
Pilgrimage
EDUCATION
HEALTH
URBANIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT
The Economy
Factors that Transformed the Economy
Economic Policy Making
Five-Year Plans
Changing Structure of the Economy
LABOR
OIL INDUSTRY
Brief History
Oil Industry in the 1990s
NON-OIL INDUSTRIAL SECTOR
AGRICULTURE
MONEY AND BANKING
Government
STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT
The King
The Royal Diwan
The Council of Ministers
The Civil Service and Independent Agencies
The Legal System
Local Government
POLITICS
The Royal Family
The Ulama
Beduin Tribes and Merchant Families
MEDIA
FOREIGN POLICY
Regional Security
Relations with the United States
Arab Nationalism
Islam
Bibliography
Country Studies Index
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