David Commins on Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Future of the Gulf States
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Enhanced with helpful links. Visit ConversationsWithTyler.com Hello everyone and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler. Today I'm chatting with David Commons. David is one of the leading scholars on Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, and Wahhabiism. He has a new book out which I enjoyed very much and learned a lot from. It's called Saudi Arabia A Modern History.
David, welcome. Thank you, it's nice to be here. I have so many questions about Saudi. I mean let's take Wahhabiism, which gets a very bad reputation in the Western press.
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