Cradle of Islam: The Hijaz and the Quest for an Arabian Identity

by Mai Yamani

Book Overview

In 1932, the Al Saud family officially incorporated the Kingdom of the Hijaz into the new Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Hijazis became a people without a country of their own. Cradle of Islam focuses on contemporary Hijazi life and culture made subservient to the dominant national rules of Saudi Arabia, as dictated by a political and religious elite rooted in the central Najd region of the country. But centralisation was not enough to assimilate or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0082PW9OA
• ISBN13: 9781850437109
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"