Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East
Published on 31. December 1992
Book
Hardback
530 pages
978-1-85043-245-6 (ISBN)
Description
Brings together contributions from students of the Middle East and academics from the fields of history and anthropology. The volume grew out of a conference of tribes and state formation sponsored by Harvard and M.I.T. in November 1987.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
glossary, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85043-245-6 (9781850432456)
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Content
Introduction - Tribes and the Complexities of State Formation in the Middle East, Philip S. Khoury and Joseph Kostiner. PART I Historical, anthropological, methodological, and comparative perspectives: Tribes and State Formation in Islamic History, Ira M. Lapidus; Anthropologists, Historians, and Tribespeople on Tribe and State Formation in the Middle East, Richard Tapper; Anthropological Theories of Tribe and State Formation in the Middle East - Ideology and the Semiotics of Power, Steven C Caton; Tribalism and the State in the Middle East, Ernest Gellner; The Simultaneity of the Unsimultaneous - Old Tribes and Imposed Nation-States in the Modern Middle East, Bassam Tibi; Tribe and State Relations - The Inner Asian Perspective, Thomas J. Barlield. Part 2 Middle Eastern case studies: Tribes and the-State in 19th- and 20th-century Iran, Lois Beck; Transforming Dualities - Tribe and State Formation in Saudi Arabia, Joseph Kostiner; Imams and Tribes - The Writing and Acting of History, in Upper Yemen, Paul Dresch; Tribe and State - Libyan Anomalies, Lisa Anderson. Conclusion - Tribes and States in Islamic History. Albert Hourani. INDEX.