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Saudi history book list

Not all of these are strictly Saudi only, but the books below are books where Saudi Arabia features prominently. Most of these are available on Libgen if your library doesn’t have access to these books or if you prefer a digital copy.

Alangari, Haifa. The Struggle for Power in Arabia: Ibn Saud, Hussein and Great Britain, 1914-1924.

Algar, Hamid. Wahhabism: A Critical Essay.

Al-Rasheed, Madawi. A History of Saudi Arabia.

Abu Khalil, Asad. The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power.

Citino, Nathan. From Arab Nationalism to OPEC: Eisenhower, King Sa ‘ud, and the Making of U.S.-Saudi Relations

Commins, David. The Mission and the Kingdom: Wahhabi Power Behind the Saudi Throne.

Crawford, Michael. Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab.

Delong-Bas, Natana. Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad.

Habib, John. Ibn Saud’s  Warriors of Islam: The Ikhwan of Najd and Their Role in the Creation of the Saudi Kingdom, 1910-1930.

Hegghammer, Thomas. Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism since 1979.

Jacobs, Matthew. Imagining the Middle East: The Building of an American Foreign Policy, 1918–1967.

Kerr, Malcolm. The Arab Cold War: Gamal 'Abd al-Nasir and His Rivals, 1958-1970.

Menoret, Pascal. The Saudi Enigma: A History.

Ochsenwald, William. Religion, Society and the State in Arabia: The Hijaz under Ottoman Control, 1840-1908.

Piscatori, James. Islamic Fundamentalisms and the Gulf Crisis.

Vitalis, Robert. America’s Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier

Vassiliev, Alexei. The History of Saudi Arabia

Yamani, Mai. Cradle of Islam: The Hijaz and the Quest for an Arabian Identity.

Yaqub, Salim. Containing Arab Nationalism The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East.