This is an admiring biographic study of King Faysal of Saudi Arabia, who ruled from 1964 until his assassination in 1975. Kechichian (CEO of a consulting partnership that provides analysis on the Pers
A decade after the war for Kuwait and two decades after the Iran-Iraq war, the wider Gulf region is mired in internal, regional and international conflicts. The contributors present analytical perspec
Kechichian (fellow, Near East Studies, U. of California, Los Angeles) draws on years of experience studying Saudi Arabia to write a very detailed account of the Saudi ruling family, its history, and t
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics provides in-depth coverage of the political dimensions of Islam and the Muslim world. Developments in Muslim societies in the nineteenth and twentieth cen
