Modernity & Tradition
by By Al-Farsy, Fouad
Category: History , Middle East , General

Al-Farsy offers an assessment of progress in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, providing an overview of the most ambitious development program in history, setting the Kingdom in a global political and economic context. He shows how rapid progress was achieved in the only country on earth which uses the Koran as its constitution without diminishing its distinctive Islamic identity. The author is Deputy Minister of Information, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.