ABSTRACT
The late King Faisal bin Abdul Aziz was born in Riyadh in 1905/6, several years after his father Abdulaziz Ibn Saud had recaptured it from Ibn Rashid. In 1964 he became king of Saudi Arabia, famous for harbouring twenty five percent of the world's oil reserves and hailed as the most powerful Arab ruler in centuries. In 1975, his nephew shot him in
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|59 pages
The Creation of the Saudi State
part II|37 pages
The Modernisation Process
part III|60 pages
Social Change and Traditional Islam
part IV|77 pages
The Islamic Foundations of Saudi Foreign Policy
