Saudi-Arabien ist ein Land der scheinbaren Widersprüche: auf der einen Seite ein reicher, industrialisierter Staat, den gesellschaftlichen Vorzügen der westlichen Welt geöffnet. Auf der anderen Seite die Macht des Glaubens, entstanden aus jahrtausendalter Tradition, die nicht immer mit den neuzeitlichen Entwicklungen konform geht. Die Vereinigung dieser beiden Ströme wird die Herausforderung der Saudis der Gegenwart sein - und ihr Scheitern oder Gelingen Resonanz in der ganzen Welt finden.

Informationen zum Autor Robert Lacey Klappentext Saudi Arabia plays a crucial role in our interdependent 21st-century world. It is a country of wealth - the world's largest oil producer - whose princes and businessmen raise futuristic cities in the desert. Yet it is also notorious for producing fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 suicide bombers and fostering fundamentalist clerics who want to turn the clock back to the time of the Prophet Mohammed. More than twenty years after he first moved to the country to write about the Saudis, ... Zusammenfassung Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the country's roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers.

Vorwort
The complex story of what's been happening within Saudi Arabia - while the West wasn't looking

Autorentext

Robert Lacey

Klappentext

Saudi Arabia plays a crucial role in our interdependent 21st-century world. It is a country of wealth - the world's largest oil producer - whose princes and businessmen raise futuristic cities in the desert. Yet it is also notorious for producing fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 suicide bombers and fostering fundamentalist clerics who want to turn the clock back to the time of the Prophet Mohammed. More than twenty years after he first moved to the country to write about the Saudis, ...

Zusammenfassung
Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the country's roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers.