Title: Tribes and state formation in the Middle East
Description: Offering a fuller understanding of the complexities and particular patterns of state formation in regions where tribes have exercised a significant influence, this volume focuss on the continuing existence of tribal structures and systems in contemporary times, within contemporary nation-states. The contributors offer hypotheses as to why these groups have managed to survive and what impact they have had on modern states [...] --backcover.
Subjects: Tribal government -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses, Tribes -- Government policy -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses, Islam and state -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses, Middle East -- Politics and government -- Congresses, Middle east, politics and government, Islam and state, Politics and government, Tribes, Government policy, Tribal government, Congresses, History
Places: Middle East