Historical roots of the American-Saudi oil partnership, 1932 to 1946: Comparing one Arab's Islamic view with the secular view of Western academia

This dissertation is a journey of questions. It is a story of asking how the Americans and Saudis formed a relationship of interdependence in the discovery and refining of petroleum. It is a historical study with the use of Western secular empiricism. The research methodologies were used to understand the theoretical framework of causation. How did things happen? As a doctoral student, the author already knows how his ancestors sought out the Americans back in the 20th century and their oil and management expertise. He already knows, from Arab language history books and the recollections of his father and grandfather how King Abdul Aziz, the first Arab chief to unite Arabia into one nation, financed the Kingdom when its people were starving from a worldwide famine back in the 1930s due to a world economic depression. This dissertation attempts to discover more unknown factors of this Saudi-American oil deal or partnership. This study is about two countries, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States of America. It is a study about oil: its discovery, its effect on the society and economics of both regions. It is most importantly a study about understanding cause and effect, the religious view of Islam as compared and contrasted to the secular view of nonreligious academics about why things happen.