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Swords of Saud Volume 1: Birth of the Desert Empire, 1744-1930
This work narrates the birth and rise of Saudi Arabia until nowadays. In Volume 1 we will expose in detail the wars of unification of Arabia between 1902 to 1934, including also briefly the origins of the link between Saudis and Wahabism, in the 18th Century. This is an exciting subject, an epic that gave rise to one of the most influential countries in the world and that has only scarcely narrated in English. This story begins with a night attack of two dozen exiles during a crescent moon after Ramadan in the conventual Riyadh of 1902, led by a very tall young man known as the Leopard for his agility despite his wingspan: Abdelaziz Ibn Saud. The book records the wars waged by Ibn Saud to unify Arabia, first against the Rashidis and the Ottomans in central Nejd; then during the Great War, with the appearance of the Hashimites of the Sharif of Mecca and the famous Lawrence and the more peripheral role that Saud had; and, finally, masterly, Saud had to broke the iron circle of Hashimite Kingdoms that was surrounding him after the Great War, the Hedjaz, Transjordan, Syria and Iraq. All ended in the struggle between the Hashimites and Ibn Saud to gain control of Sunni Islam, with the destruction of the kingdom of the Hedjaz, and, before this, the disappearance of Syrian Arab (this time against France in the battle of Kahn Maysalun).
This work narrates the birth and rise of Saudi Arabia until nowadays. In Volume 1 we will expose in detail the wars of unification of Arabia between 1902 to 1934, including also briefly the origins of the link between Saudis and Wahabism, in the 18th Century. This is an exciting subject, an epic that gave rise to one of the most influential countries in the world and that has only scarcely narrated in English. This story begins with a night attack of two dozen exiles during a crescent moon after Ramadan in the conventual Riyadh of 1902, led by a very tall young man known as the Leopard for his agility despite his wingspan: Abdelaziz Ibn Saud. The book records the wars waged by Ibn Saud to unify Arabia, first against the Rashidis and the Ottomans in central Nejd; then during the Great War, with the appearance of the Hashimites of the Sharif of Mecca and the famous Lawrence and the more peripheral role that Saud had; and, finally, masterly, Saud had to broke the iron circle of Hashimite Kingdoms that was surrounding him after the Great War, the Hedjaz, Transjordan, Syria and Iraq. All ended in the struggle between the Hashimites and Ibn Saud to gain control of Sunni Islam, with the destruction of the kingdom of the Hedjaz, and, before this, the disappearance of Syrian Arab (this time against France in the battle of Kahn Maysalun).