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Article: Holier Than Thou: Saudi Arabia's Islamic Opposition. (Book Reviews).(Review)
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- Middle East Policy
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- June 1, 2001
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Holier Than Thou: Saudi Arabia's Islamic Opposition, by Joshua Teitelbaum. Washington, DC: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2000. xx + 123 pages, including executive summary. $19.95, paperback.
The legitimacy of Al Saud role in Arabia has long rested on the historic 1744 alliance between Muhammad ibn Saud, lord of a small town in Najd, and the religious revivalist Shaikh Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. This alliance between the Al Saud (the House of Saud) and the Al al-Shaikh (the House of Shaikh Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab) survived the downfall of two Saudi states in the nineteenth century. In recreating the Saudi state in the early twentieth century, ...