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Mohammed bin Salman’s sudden rise and increasingly brutal actions against citizens, journalists and his own family are documented in the forthcoming Blood and Oil, a new book from award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters Justin Scheck and Bradley Hope. Paul Glader’s conversation with Scheck details MBS’s rise, highlights the big questions for the future of Saudi Arabia and includes a reading from the book. At the crossroads between an older conservative religious political base to a young, online and less conservative class what happens to the faith of the Wahabists, Shia, Sunni and Hindus in the region? There’s a real question to the political phrase MBS has said to reporters "Wahabism? What is Wahabism?"