RESUMEN EN INGLÉS DE ARABIA SAUDITA

Although Saudi Arabia is a rich and powerful country whose influence extends throughout the Islamic world and the West, their society is still for us closed and enigmatic. During the 20th century its history has been dominated by the development of the formation of the State and the construction of the nation. After World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Ibn Saud delivered a long and arduous campaign to join from the four corners of the Arabian peninsula a hugely disparate tribal people, until the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was born in 1932. Madawi al - Rasheed runs the extraordinary history of this country since the time of the UAE, in the 19th century, to the Gulf war, in the 1990s, and, recently, the celebration of the centenary of the unit. This is a book that will be very valuable for students, journalists, responsible for the development of policies and for all those who seek to understand the enigma of Saudi Arabia.