Ameen Rihani's foundational work on the history of the Al Saud family, the unification of the Arabian peninsula and modern Saudi Arabia. 
 

*** IBN SA'OUD OF ARABIA ***

His People & His Land

To my knowledge this is the only copy of the first edition of this work, in its original unclipped dustjacket, in such fine condition, available anywhere in the world today.

Details:

• FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, FIRST ISSUE...Published by Constable & Co. Ltd, London 1928 with no additional printings noted
• Illustrated throughout (over 70 photos and other illustrations including maps)
• Original publisher's prospectus and pre-publication order form loosely laid-in, in unrestored fine condition
• 370 pages, original peacock multicoloured boards in vibrant, bright condition with bright gilt titling on spine
• Very solidly bound with no torn or loose pages, hinges and joints unbroken and in very fine condition
• No previous owner's marks or bookplates, no writing internally. Extremely clean inside.
  
  
• Gilt textblock at top, original uneven cut pages at foot, some foxing/spotting to lateral textblock
• Original dust-jacket, untorn and unrestored, in very fine condition, unclipped showing original price of "One Guinea net"
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From the publisher's 1928 prospectus:

"Few habitable countries of our world remain so unknown to the people of East and West as Arabia. Even today huge tracts remain white on our maps. The Hedjaz, with Mecca and Medina, Asir and The Yemen, have for centuries past received their pilgrims and their traders; since the earliest days the towns on the Persian Gulf have been visited by merchant-sailors - but within all was dark.

With the travels of Doughty in unexplored Arabia the public at large first woke to the fascination of the country and of its tribes. But only gradually has the veil been lifted. Readers of Gertrude Bell's Letters will recall her journey into the Arabian desert, hoping as she did, to penetrate to Ar-Riyadh - and how she had to turn North-East again for Hail. Philby stayed in Ar-Riyadh for many weeks during his famous journey from the Persian (Arabian) Gulf to the Red Sea, an experience narrated in full in The Heart of Arabia - but Ameen Rihani's is the first really intimate picture given by one who was received by Ibn Sa'oud as a friend and confidant - who went where he listed - saw what he wished to see - learned what was in the hearts of the people and their famous Sultan, and gives us of his knoweldge in this book."

Contents

The Kingdom of Najd and Dependencies

A Genealogical Table of AAL SA'OUD

I. We Said: Huraimala, But Allah Said: Dh'Rumah

II. In Baghdad

III. In Bahrain

IV. In a Jalbout to Ojair

V. The Meeting in the Nufoud

VI. With the Sultan on the March

VII. The Sultan Abd'Ul-Aziz

VIII. Between Iraq and Al-Hijaz

IX. The Conference of Ojair

X. Al-Hasa

XI. Across the Desert

XII. Ar-Riyadh

XIII. In the Palace

XIV. The Tragedy of Shammar

XV. The SA'OUDS and the Rashids at Play

XVI. The Bedu of Najd

XVII. The Ulema of Najd

XVIII. The Ikhwan

XIX. The Rule of Ibn SA'OUD

XX. Revenue and Rain and Something Equally Important in Between

XXI. Poetry and Policy

XXII. Ibn ABD-UL-WAHHAB and Wahhabism

XXIII. Wadi Hanifah

XXIV. The Washm

XXV. The Qasim

XXVI. 'Anaizah and Buraidah

XXVII. In the Dahna

XXVIII. Al-Hafar

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