Tribalism and Rural Society in the Islamic World

Segmentarity and its problems - the evidence of fieldwork among Moroccan Berbers and Pakistani Pukhtuns, plus personal reflections; highland tribesmen in Morocco and the Afghanistan/Pakistan frontier; regionalism ethnicity, tribalism and Islam in Morocco and Pakistan; segmentary lineage structure vs personal strategy, and feud vs vendetta - examples from Berber Morocco and the Pakistan north west frontier; kinshp and marriage among Moroccan Berbers and Pakistani Pukhtuns - an exercise in Murdockian typology; tradition, continuity and modernity in Islamic customary law - examples from Berber Morocco and the Pukhtun tribal agencies of Pakistan; Berbers in Al Andalus, Pathans in Hundustan - Muslim tribesmen soldiers away from home; the Yemini highlands and the Moroccan Rif - a comparison of tribal customary law in two Islamic societies; the image of the Berbers as the Spanish Other - Guanche-Berber connections in the aboriginal Canary Islands and Berbers in Muslim Andalus; the bloodfeud in traditional North Albanian society viewed from the perspectives of tribal structures in the Maghrib and the Mashriq.