House of Saud

Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction & Methodology 2 Background 2 Research Questions 2 • Methodological Approach & Typology 2 • Rationale for Case Study 4 • Limitations 6 • Sources 7 Outline 8 Chapter 2: Justification of Theory 8 • Conceptual framework 8 • Coercion 11 • Self-interest 12 • Legitimacy 14 Chapter 3: Grand Mosque Takeover 15 • Introduction 15 • KSA Literature Review 16 • Establishment of Saudi Arabia 21 • Nexus between Wahhabism and the Saudi State 23 • The Lead Up (Jamaa al-Salafiya

and they sent them to Kuwait without money. In 1902, Ibn Saud, 21, and 60 of his brothers and cousins went to take back their land from the Rashids tribal. He took control over Riyadh, but to take over all the Arabian Peninsula he asked for help from the Ikhwan “Muslim brothers”- they are Wahhabi Islamic Puritans that want to expand their version of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula, and nomadic Bedouins. With the help of the Ikhwan, ibn Saud took territory after another, until he captured Mecca and

access. The U.S. cannot proclaim to be the world leader in fighting terrorism yet the government continues to be the ultimate “state sponsor” of those who fund terrorism (Casaca & Wolf, 2017). According to Chossudovsky (2013), groups such as the House of Saud have been supported by the U.S. government in the past in full knowledge that the Saudi monarchy funds Al Qaeda. The U.S. government should be viewed as a “State sponsor of Terrorism” given its reluctance to evaluate its relationship with Saudi

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it is located in the centre of the Arabian peninsula (Figure 1). The modern history of Saudi Arabia began in 1939 when King Abdul-Aziz Al Saud united the parties of the peninsula under a single authority and then declared the emergence of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Before 1939, Riyadh lived a state of poverty, starvation, lack of resources and the most important of all, lack of security

The United States relationship with Saudi Arabia is one that begun on February 14, 1945 when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt met King Al-Saud at the Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal. After World War II the United States became the most influential foreign power in Saudi Arabia. US’s main interest was focused in the direction of the oil industry. Then in 1960 Saudi Arabia was one of the

Saudi Arabia is a country in Southeast Asia with a population of approximately 19 million, established in 1932 by King AbdulAziz Ibn AbdulRahman Al Saud. Arabic is the official language and Islam the official religion. According to the 1992 census, 4.6 million of Saudi Arabian residents were foreign workers, which can be assumed this why in Saudi Arabia women only constitute for seven per cent of the

allowed to wear whatever shoes they want, even though sandals are the most common.The key to understanding Saudi customs is the country's history. When the modern nation was founded in 1932, it was based on an 18th-century pact between the ruling Al Saud monarchy and a devout bunch of clerics who followed a fiery version of Islam (Ritadh 1) At the airport, the rules are a little fuzzy. Women don’t often feel comfortable wearing their abayas, hood and veil on airplanes after recent terrorism and discrimination

A sufficient education is something that Westerner’s like myself, have taken for granted for a long time. It’s easy to, in all honesty, because we have been raised in a society in which education has been held at the utmost importance. In the United States women are held at an equal level with men, we’ve fought for this sense of equality for several years and unfortunately, not all women across the world have had that same success. Women from other countries do not have half of the rights that we

About thirteen years ago I went to a video store to rent a Mean Girls DVD since there are no movie theaters in Saudi Arabia. I was so excited to get the film, and see if I find other new “cool” titles I would enjoy. A man in his thirties approached me, and rambled with few words, I could not understand at first, then I realized that he wants me to leave the store. Outside he pointed at a sign, the sign read: “women are not allowed inside”. American films were my only source of entertainment, though