The Siege Of Mecca by Yaroslav Trofimov
The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al-Qaeda
A gripping narrative of the 1979 armed takeover of Islam’s holiest sanctuary by a fringe militant group, its bloody two-week siege, and the fraught military, religious, and political response that followed; the book interweaves eyewitness accounts, investigative reporting, and historical context to explain how the incident exposed tensions within Saudi society, reshaped the kingdom’s relationship with its clergy, and helped catalyze strains of militant Islam that later reverberated across the Muslim world.
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