'[This book] puts forward a clear argument, namely that with the consolidation and expanssion of the Saudi state, the official historical narrative changed and, additionally, a certainpluralism of historical perspectives developed which Deterann terms "narrative plurality"... Determann's book is clearly written and well-argued. It is based on an impresssibely wide reading and many many interview, the author's long experience in and with the Kingdom here clearly pays off.' Professor Ulrike Freitag, Zentru Moderner Orient and Freie Universitat Berlin 'Matthias Determannn has written a clearly presented, well-organised and convincingly artivularted book on the changing landscape of historiography in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...This is a remarkably lucid, cogently asssembled, and perhaps above all impressibely documented study(both in the vey larde primary literature consulted and also in the number of interviews carried out) that makes a major contribution not only ot its particular field of Saudi, and mroe broadly contemporary Arabic, historiography, but through its historiographical lens also privdes an unusually nuanced reading of Saudi politics, society and culture.' Dr James McDougall. Faculty of History, University of Oxford; 'Determann has produced a well-researched and useful study of the major historiographical trends in Saudi Arabia...his work contributes significantly to our understanding of the complexity of documenting the history of Wahhabism, the Saudi state, and the shifts that occurred in the ideas and practices of historians and the state.' Malek Abisaab, American Historical Review