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The Encircled Kingdom: The Saudi Anti-Communist Stance, 1958–67

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2022

Mohammad A. Al Tuwayjiri
Mohammad A. Al Tuwayjiri*
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Department of History, College of Arts, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Abstract

This article evaluates Saudi Arabia's anti-Communist stance between 1958 and 1967, in the midst of the Cold War. It presents an alternative interpretation of how anti-Communism was framed as a struggle against Arab Nationalism and Zionism in the Middle East. Furthermore, it highlights the different perspectives on anti-Communist agitation provided in primary sources and Saudi historiography and offers fresh insight into the Saudis’ anti-Communist stance. The analysis shows that Saudi attitudes in the Cold War were dominated by a fear of the Soviet Communists that subsequently extended to all other secular ideologies. The article concludes that the Saudi strategy of anti-Communism was a crucial building block to curb the spread of Communism in the twentieth century.

Keywords

Saudi ArabiaAnti-CommunistCold WarArab NationalismZionism
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Critical Essay
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Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , June 2021 , pp. 158 - 176
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11 Bsheer, “Counter-Revolutionary State,” 204. Although the terms “Anti-Communism” and “Anti-Left” were often used interchangeably,-and they certainly were intertwined in the Saudi literature – this essay will make a clear distinction between these two terms. Whereas “Anti-Communism” broadly denoted politics realistically structured along ideological factors to serve regime's security and legitimacy in the Cold War, “Anti-Left” referred here to ideational concerns from the State toward Anti-Western sentiments of Nasserism, Baathism, and Socialism during the Cold War.

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15 As one might expect, research in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf in general is fundamentally different from other countries. Public archives, such as King Abdul Aziz Foundation for Research and Archives (Dārah), are very difficult to access and hardly available to scholars. This explains why the bulk of primary sources are documents from the United States and the UK archives. However, due to the limitations of local primary sources in Saudi Arabia, some of the best-known books are included to reflect the nation-state's position, vision, and its strategy against Communism and the particular time period under investigation.

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20 CIA, “Arab Nationalism as a Factor in The Middle East Situation,” 1958.

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31 Jörg Matthias Determann, Historiography in Saudi Arabia: Globalization and the State in the Middle East (London: I.B. Tauris, 2014), 55.

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33 Al-Miṣrī, Ḥạ̄dịr al-ʻalam al-islāmī, 93–98.

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45 The premise here is the establishment of IUM and MWL was mostly designed to curb the waves of Arab Nationalism and secularism in the Arab world, yet was also partly imbued with a sense of Anti-Communism globally.

46 Michael Farquhar, “The Islamic University of Medina since 1961: The Politics of Religious Mission and the Making of a Modern Salafi Pedagogy,” in Shaping Global Islamic Discourses: The Role of Al-Azhar, Al-Medina, and Al-Mustafa, eds Masooda Bano and Keiko Sakurai (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015), 21.

47 PRO, FCO 8/812, “Islamic World League,” (October 1968).

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49 PRO, FCO 8/1201, “Islamic Diplomacy,” (October 31, 1968).

50 Aḥmad AlʻĪsā. Iṣlaḥ al-taʻlīm fī al-saʻūdīyah bayna ghīyāb al-ru'īyah al-sīyāsīyah wa-tawjus al-thaqāfah al-dīnīyah wa-ʻajz al-Idārah al-tarbawīyah. (Beirut: Dār al-Sāqī, 2009), 73–75.

51 Ibid.

52 FURS, 1964–1968, Volume XXI, Near East Region, “Arabian Peninsula,” eds Daniel J. Lawler and Erin R. Mahan (Washington: Government Printing Office, 2010), Document 260 “Memorandum of Conversation,” at https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v21/d260, accessed on March 1, 2020.

53 ʿAl-Ṭāhāwe, Al-mālik fāisal, 179.

54 Sūaleh and Shāmbūn, “Murājaʻah lil al-siyāsah al-khārjīah,” 119.

55 Al-Sudairi, “Marx's Arabian Apostles,” 451.

56 Bsheer, “Counter-Revolutionary State,” 238.

57 CIA, “We Consider That in General the Estimates Concerning Saudi Arabia Contained in Since 20-2-58 Are Still Valid,” (11 August, 1958), Document Number: 0005622828, at https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005622828.pdf, accessed January 11, 2020.

58 FRUS, 1964–1968, Volume XXI, Near East Region, “Arabian Peninsula,” eds. Daniel J. Lawler and Erin R. Mahan (Washington: Government Printing Office, 2010), Document 530, at https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v21/pg_530, accessed March 3, 2020.

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68 PRO, FCO 8/808 (BS12/2), “Arab Oil Embargo,” (August 8, 1967).

69 Bronson, Thicker Than Oil, 78.

70 Ibid.

71 FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume XVIII, Near East, 1962–1963, “Letter From President Kennedy to Crown Prince Faisal, March 1, 1963,” eds Daniel J. Lawler and Erin R. Mahan (Washington: Government Printing Office, 2010), Document 172, at https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v18/d172, accessed on December 26, 2019.

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74 Ḥleeq, Mūskū wa-Isrā’īl, 30–33.

75 Al-Ḥujilān, Al-dawlah wa al-thawrāh, 37.

76 Ibid., 74–77.

77 Sālim, Al-faiṣal malik fī fīkkr ūmmah, 154.

78 Al-Sārhan, Al-siyāsah al-khārjīah al-saʻūdīyah, 30–31.

79 Sālim, Al-faiṣal malik fī fīkkr ūmmah, 167–71; Ḥleeq, Mūskū wa-Isrā’īl, 12–44; Al-Ḥujilān, Al-dawlah wa al-thawrāh, 50–80; Saʻīd, Fayṣal, 23–34.

80 Stephen Walt, The Origins of Alliances (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987), 149.

81 Bsheer, “Counter-Revolutionary State,” 237.

82 Determann, Historiography in Saudi Arabia,157–62.

83 Saʻīd, Fayṣal, 44–54; Al-Ziriklī, Shibh al-jazīrah, 773–77.

84 Al-Rushayd, Mawqif al-mamlakah al-ʻarabīyah al-saʻūdīyah, 22–33.

85 Mohammed Al-Osaimi, The Politics of Persuasion: The Islamic Oratory of King Faisal Ibn Abdul Aziz (KFCRIS: Riyadh, 2000), 95

86 Al-Ziriklī, Shibh al-jazīrah, 773–75.

87 Nihad Al-Ghādrī, Al-tārīkh al-sirrī lil-al-ālāqāt al-shuyūʻīyah al-sihyūnīyah (Bayrūt: Dār al-Kātib al-ʿArabī, 1965), 40–57; Ghāsy, Al-wlyāt al- mtḥydh wa al-tiḥad al-swfyte, 44–60; Al-Jazairi, “Saudi Arabia: A Diplomatic History,” 98; Saʻīd, Fayṣal, 25–39; Mishel A. Al Mosaed, “The USSR and the Gulf States relations since the British Withdrawal from east of Suez in 1971” (Ph.D., diss, Denver University, 1990): 78–80

88 Al-‘Aḍīmī, al-saʻūdīyah wa taṭawūruhā al-ḥadīthah, 22–30; Al-Tūrkī, Wāqʿ al-ālqāt al-saʻūdīyah al-russiāh, (2005), 7–11; Ghāsy, Al-wlyāt al- mtḥydh wa al-tiḥad al-swfyte, 44–60.

89 ‘Abd Aziz Ibn Baz, “Ḥukm min uṭālib bitaḥkīm al-mabādi' al-sūvyītyah,” fatwa No. 21, at https://binbaz.org.sa/fatwas/21/%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%85-), accessed March 8, 2020.

90 Wikileaks Department of State Washington, 1973, “King Faisal Calls For Early Solution to Arab-Israeli Problem,” Wikileaks Cable: 1973STATE078404_b. at https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973STATE078404_b.html, accessed June 8, 2019.

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93 PRO, FCO 8/639 (BK3/23) “Saudi Arabian Relations with the Gulf States,” (April 16, 1968); PCO, FCO 8/757 (BQ 2/1 PART B) “Saudi Arabian Political Affairs the U.K Policy & Relations,” (February 20, 1968).

94 PRO, FCO 8/808 (BS 12/1) “Further Criticism of Arab Oil Policy in Saudi Arabia,” (1967); PRO, FCO 8/762 (BS 3/1) “Saudi Arabian Press turns to Criticism of President Nasser,” (1967).

95 ’Abd al-Qanī, Al-khalīj bayna muqawimāt al-waḥdeh, 39.

96 Ibid., 39–40.

97 Ibid.

98 Amīn Mḥmūd, Al-Ittiḥād al-swfītī wa ta'asīs dawlah īsrā’īl (al-Qāhirah: “Ein li- al-Dirāsāt wa al-Buḥth al-Insānīah al-Ijtimāʿīyah, 2013), 88–89.

99 Ibid., 88–89.

100 Al-Ḥujilān, Al-dawlah wa al-thawrāh, 37–41; Ẓahīr, Al-saʻūdīyah wa taṭawūruhā al-ḥadīthah, 102–19; Al-Ziriklī, Shibh al-jazīrah,773–75; Al-Munjīd, ʻAḥdīth ’an faiṣal wa- al-taẓamn al-isāmi, 34; Al-Osaimi, The Politics of Persuasion, 95.

101 Sālim, Al-faiṣal malik fī fīkkr ūmmah, 154–56; Ḥleeq, Mūskū wa-isrā’īl, 60–66; Al-freiḥī, Al-ālqāt al-saʻūdīyah al-maṣryah, 30–46.

102 Al-Munjīd, ʻAḥdīth ’an faiṣal wa- al-taẓamn al-islāmī, 34.

103 Ibid.

104 Ibid. 34–35.

105 Ḥleeq, Mūskū wa-isrā’īl, 14.

106 Ibid., 22–33.

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109 Mājid Al-Turkī, Al-ālāqāt al-saʻūdīyah al-rūsīyah fī dạw' al-mutaghayyirāt al-iqlīmīyah wa-al-dawlīyah 1926–2007 AD (Riyadh: Markaz al-Iʻlām wa-al-Dirāsāt al-ʻArabīyah- al-Rūsīyah, 2015), 314–20.

110 Ibid., 318–24.

111 Al-Ḥujilān, Al-dawlah wa al-thawrāh, 77.

112 Long and Maisel, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 145–46.

113 Bronson, Thicker Than Oil, 219.

114 Determann, Historiography in Saudi Arabia, 57.

115 Hegghammer, Jihad in Saudi Arabia, 38.