Tribes and States in a Changing Middle East - Hardcover

Uzi Rabi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1849043450 ISBN 13: 9781849043458

Publisher: GARDNERS VI BOOKS AMS006

Synopsis

A wide-ranging analysis of whether tribes and tribal identities are becoming more rather than less pronounced in the contemporary Middle East.

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About the Author

Uzi Rabi is Director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of The Emergence of States in a Tribal Society: Oman Under Sa'id bin Taymur, 1932-1970.

Review

'This book is an outstanding tribute to the life and work of Joseph Kostiner who did so much to bring the sensibilities of a historian and the acuity of a social scientist to the study of states and tribes in the Middle East. It carves out new fields of research that build on, but also take further, many of his original insights.' - Charles Tripp, Professor of Middle East Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; 'Uzi Rabi, who himself is among the foremost scholars now working on tribal identity and the state, has assembled an impressive cast of contributors to this volume. ... Tribes and States is admirable in its intellectual ambition and empirical scope and certainly the best volume now available on understanding past context and the present conditions that now shape tribal-state relations in the contemporary Middle East.' - Clive Jones, Professor of Regional Security, and Deputy Head of School in the School of Government and International Affairs, University of Durham; 'Tribes and States draws together an impressive, some might say stellar, range of experts in order to explore - through the prism of country-by-country analyses - the role of tribes in the state formation and consolidation processes.' - James Worrall, Lecturer in International Relations, School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, and author of State Building and Counter Insurgency in Oman

About this edition

• Publisher: GARDNERS VI BOOKS AMS006
• ISBN 10: 1849043450
• ISBN 13: 9781849043458
• Binding: Hardcover