An anational society : eastern Arabia in the Ottoman period / Frederick Anscombe -- Mapping the transnational community : Persians and the space of the city in Bahrain, 1869-1937 / Nelida Fuccaro -- Transnational merchants in the nineteenth-century Gulf : the case of the Safar family / James Onley -- Dubai : global city and transnational hub / Roland Marchal -- The emergence of a pan-Arab market in modern media industries / Gaëlle le Pottier -- Indonesians in Saudi Arabia : religious and economic connections / Mathias Diederich -- Saudi religious transnationalism in London / Madawi Al-Rasheed -- Wahhabism in the United Kingdom : manifestations and reactions / Jonathan Birt
Summary
This book challenges the definitions of globalisation and transnationalism as a one way process generated mainly by the Western World and the view that the latter is a twentieth century phenomenon
