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Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah: The Transformation of Kuwait

Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah: The Transformation of Kuwait

Al-Sabah, Souad M.

Hardcover

Historical FiguresPolitical BiographiesGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 1780764332
ISBN13: 9781780764337
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Mar 30 2015
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.38
Height: 1.05 Width: 6.96 Depth: 9.35
Language: English

Sheikh Mubarak was the founder of the modern state of Kuwait. But the man who actually led Kuwait to modernity was his son Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah, one of the most significant figures of Kuwait from the 1940s to Kuwaiti independence in 1961. Largely responsible for the creation of the Kuwaiti defence forces, Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah made a point of prioritising what he saw to be Kuwait's national interests in the face of British, American and Iranian pressures during a crucial period of change. He developed carefully crafted, cautious relations with foreign oil companies and secured Kuwait's economic standing through his driven and single-minded policies. The author here presents this part-biography, part-history of modern Kuwait, with fresh new research and insights.

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