Subscriber Essay: Saudi Arabia and the Ikhwan Revolt

How Abdulaziz ibn Saud conquered Arabia and then had to put down the shock troops who made that conquest possible.

This week’s essay is a sequel:

I loved your essay on the wars of consolidation of the present Saudi state with a focus on the Ikwhan. It stopped, perfectly reasonably, before WWI. I’d love a follow up essay on from that point on, covering the conquest of the Hejaz, the Ikwhan revolt and suppression, and question of whether resentments sewn in 1927 made a…