The Green History Podcast continues its weekly audio adventures into Islamic history. Following his fall out with the senior scholars of Madinah and his escape from the city, Juhayman finds a new alliance with a popular young scholar from Riyadh who would soon come to be identified by Juhayman and his fellow Ikhwan as the promised Mehdi. Juhayman's…

The Green History Podcast continues its weekly audio adventures into Islamic history. Juhayman, the man who revived the Ikhwan in 1977 and went on to cause reversal of socio-religious policies in the kingdom from 1980 to this day. Beginning with open criticism of the Saudi establishment, Western culture, the prevalence of Music, free-mixing and pri…

The Green History Podcast continues its weekly audio adventures into Islamic history. In the fifth episode of its first season we explore the the golden era of Saudi Arabia following the Kingdom's discovery of oil and the influx of foreign luxury products. Saudi Arabia prior to 1979 is often cited as a time when the region was more relaxed and less…

The Green History Podcast continues its weekly audio adventures into Islamic history. In the fourth episode of its first season we venture into the Arabian desert in order to witness the fateful night in which the King's old guard - the Ikhwan, finally decide to confront the King during in a secret council meeting. The Ikhwan would soon reject the …

The Green History Podcast continues its weekly audio adventures into Islamic history. In the third episode of its first season we take the listener back to 1902 to venture into the Najd region where Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud is pioneering and socialising an entire population of desert Bedouins as part of his social engineering project to create a new mil…

The Green History Podcast continues its weekly audio adventures into Islamic history. In the second episode of its first season, we explore how the al-Saud clan enacted a pact with Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab in 1744 and how that has set the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the path a very much debated history. The person and career of Muhammad Ibn …

The Green History Podcast begins with its weekly interactive audio adventures into Islamic history. In the very first episode we take you to the Saudi Arabia in its early modern state around 1938 in order to recount the events that occurred in the Hijaz and how the Al-Saud clan became its leading family at a time of great unrest and bloody tribal r…