How Arabia Got Its Name

The control of the lucrative maritime trade is now in the... read more

The military power of the Qarmatian tribes was suppressed by local... read more

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With the outbreak of World War 1, Kuwait became a British... read more

The Arab buffer states of the Ghaznavids and the Lakhmids both... read more

From 870, Yemen became virtually independent under a line of hereditary... read more

In 1517, the Ottomans had come in from the west, bringing... read more

During the first century, CE Greek sailors pioneered the Indian Ocean trade routes,... read more

The Saudi-led Wahhabi kingdom soon descended into chaos in fratricidal fighting... read more

In 1806 the Wahhabi movement, headed by the Saud family, captured... read more