Reviews
“A unique combination of research, reportage, and commentary leavened with deep cultural insights of Saudi society.” —Karen Elliott House, author of On Saudi Arabia, Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines and Future
“Shows readers the way to think about the region and develop policies that clear a path toward a better future for its long suffering peoples.” —H. R. McMaster, author of Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World
“Superbly written, impeccably researched, and enlivened by Ajami's own wide travels in the Middle East.” —Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution
“A magisterial account of the dramatic encounter between religious faith and state power.” —Russell A. Berman, Stanford University and Hoover Institution
"[Ajami's] socially astute, politically savvy book leaves us with a more nuanced view of the kingdom’s evolution and of its causes, some of which can be traced to our doorstep." —The Wall Street Journal
Author Biography
Fouad Ajami (1945–2014) was director of Middle East Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a senior fellow and cochair of the Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.