| Description |
xv, 351 pages : map ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Roy P. Mottahdeh -- In memory of Malcolm Kerr / Albert Hourani -- Introduction : tribes and the complexities of state formation in the Middle East / Philip S. Khoury and Joseph Kostiner -- 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. Barfield -- Middle Eastern case studies. Tribes and the state in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Iran / Lois Beck -- Transforming dualitites : 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 |
| Analysis |
Middle East |
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Politics History |
| Notes |
Rev. papers from the Conference on Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, held in Cambridge, Mass., in Nov. 1987 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-334) and index |
| Subject |
Islam and state -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses.
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Islam and state -- Middle East -- History.
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Tribal government -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses.
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Tribal government -- Middle East -- History.
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Tribes -- Government policy -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses.
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Tribes -- Government policy -- Middle East -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
Middle East -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090511 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
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Middle East -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090511
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Khoury, Philip S. (Philip Shukry), 1949-
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Kostiner, Joseph.
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Harvard University.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Conference on Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East (1987 : Cambridge, Mass.)
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| LC no. |
90035640 |
| ISBN |
0520070798 (alk. paper) |
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0520070801 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0756754674 (paperback) |
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