Ibn Saud: Founder of a Kingdom

Domes | March 21, 1994| | Copyright

Chris Thompson
Domes
03-21-1994
Ibn Saud: Founder of a Kingdom.

Leslie McLoughlin

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. 240 pages, photographs. LC 92-3491. ISBN 0-312-07988-5 $39.95.

Review by

Chris Thompson, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Leslie McLoughlin (whose name is better known in the United States as a linguist, translator, and author of Arabic language books) has written a very readable and well-footnoted account of the life of Abdul Aziz ibn Abdul Rahman Al Saud--the man more often referred to in the West as "Ibn Saud" or the "Lion of the Nejd"--the founder of the modern Kingdom ...

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