Tribes and power
Subtitle: nationalism and ethnicity in the Middle East
By: edited by Faleh Abdul-Jabar and Hosham Dawod
Contributors: ʻAbd al-Jabbār, Fāliḥ; Dawod, Hosham
Publisher: Saqi
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Ethnicity -- Middle East; Nationalism -- Middle East; Tribal government -- Middle East; Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1945-
Description: Tribes and Power provides a comprehensive understanding of the structure, functioning, and change of today's Middle Eastern tribes. In some Middle Eastern countries, tribalism has been strengthened by centralized policies, modern technology, and the market economy. This stimulating collection scrutinizes the complexities of kinship structures in Arab and Islamic cultures, and contains case studies of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Agnatic illusions : the element of choice in Arab kinship / Edouard Conte; title: Ibn Khaldun and contemporary anthropology : cycles and factional alliances of tribe and state in the Maghreb / Pierre Bonte; title: Sheikhs and ideologues : deconstruction and reconstruction of tribes under patrimonial totalitarianism in Iraq, 1968-1998 / Faleh A. Jabar; title: The 'state-ization' of the tribe and the tribalization of the state : the case of Iraq / Hosham Dawood; title: Tribalization as a tool of state control in Iraq : observations on the army, the cabinets and the national assembly / Keiko Sakai; title: Kurds, states and tribes / Martin van Bruinessen; title: Yazidi tribes, religion and state in early modern Iraq / Nelida Fuccaro; title: A few reflections on 'tribe' and 'state' in twentieth-century Morocco / Kenneth Brown; title: Tribal confederations and emirates in central Arabia / Madawl al-Rasheed; title: The White Tent programme : tribal education under / Muhammad Reza Shah / Farian Sabahi; title: The social ontology of late colonialism : tribes and the mandated state in Iraq / Toby Dodge; title: Tribes and nationalism : tribal political culture and behaviour in Iraq, 1914-20 / Thair Karim