Tribes, government, and history in Yemen
By: Paul Dresch.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
Subjects: Tribes -- Yemen; Yemen -- Social life and customs; Yemen -- History
Description: Dresch here combines ethnography with history to describe the system of sedentary tribes in South Arabia--a strategically sensitive part of the world--over the past thousand years. He examines the values and traditions the tribal people bring to the contemporary world of nation-states, and discusses the relation of the major tribes to pre-modern Islamic learning, the Zaydi Imamate, ideas of contemporary statehood, and the area as a whole.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-430) and index.