Abdulaziz Al-Shibl

Specialist in Modern and Contemporary History

Dr Abdulaziz Al-Shibl is a researcher specialising in modern and contemporary history, concerned with the history of Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Peninsula and its documents, correspondence and testimony. His work rests on source criticism, collating accounts and establishing events and dates, with attention to periods that general writing has left thinly documented. He contributes to debate on the method of writing national history and on distinguishing oral account from written document in constructing historical narrative.