Dr. Ghaniya �Ulaywi's book detailing the life and accomplishments of Jassim Muhammad Murad is informative and well-researched. It offers the reader a vivid picture of Murad's personality, career, family life, life-long accomplishments, pragmatic political ideology, and his humanist and humanitarian value-driven worldview.

�I don�t believe the King was ever a committed reformer or an enlightened leader. The only tangible result from his �reform� program, following the adoption of the National Charter in 2001-2002 was to change his title from Emir to King.� This is what Dr. Emile Nakhleh sees� a professor at University of New Mexico and retired senior intelligence service officer who has written a book on political development in Bahrain.