In The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global
Power, Professor As`ad AbuKhalil confronts the contradictory nature of
Saudi Arabia--questions that both the Saudi government, long shrouded in
mystery, and the United States government, ever protective of its own
interests, seem unwilling to answer.
In this unsparing probe into the history and power structure of the
kingdom, Professor AbuKhalil, author of Bin Laden, Islam, and America's
New War on Terrorism, affords the reader unique insight into the intense
friction that underlies the increasingly precarious balance between the
Saudi royal family and the fundamentalist clerical establishment.