In this perceptive analysis of the Arab sheikhdoms of the Gulf, Peter Lienhardt discusses the common social patterns manifest in their tribal structure, the relations between men and women, the economics of pearl fishing, the growth of towns, and the complex relationship between the ruling shaikhs and their subjects. The advent of oil wealth radically altered the economic and social conditions of the region, but the sheikhs have continued to play an important political role in their modern states.
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Peter Lienhardt is former Faculty Lecturer in Middle Eastern Sociology at the Institue of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford.
Ahmed Al-Shahi is Senior Associate Member, St. Antony's College, Oxford.
Ahmed Al-Shahi is Senior Associate Member, St. Antony's College, Oxford.
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This book is concerned with the traditional society of the Trucial Coast of Oman, more particularly in its political aspect, and with the government of shaikhs as it has existed there over the last two centuries. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
offending kin, other shaikhdoms, town shaikhs, pearl fishing industry, shaikhly families, bedouin shaikhs, one puller, pearling boats, tribal section, dhow trade, blood compensation, secondary sections, pearl merchants, date gardens, pearl banks, late ruler, pearl trade, pearling industry, primary sections, bedouin women, pearl fishers, political complex, two kins Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Trucial Coast, Abu Dhabi, Trucial States, Ras Al-Khaimah, Bani Yas, Eastern Arabian, Shaikha Hussa, British Government, Shaikh Sa'id, Buraimi Oasis, Middle East, Shaikh Muhammed, Shaikh Sultan, East Africa, Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Mubarak, Shaikh Saqr, Bani Qitab, Empty Quarter, Peter Lienhardt, Saudi Arabia, Shaikh Rashid, Arabic of the Gulf, British Resident, Lorimer's Gazetteer New!
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This book is concerned with the traditional society of the Trucial Coast of Oman, more particularly in its political aspect, and with the government of shaikhs as it has existed there over the last two centuries. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
offending kin, other shaikhdoms, town shaikhs, pearl fishing industry, shaikhly families, bedouin shaikhs, one puller, pearling boats, tribal section, dhow trade, blood compensation, secondary sections, pearl merchants, date gardens, pearl banks, late ruler, pearl trade, pearling industry, primary sections, bedouin women, pearl fishers, political complex, two kins Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Trucial Coast, Abu Dhabi, Trucial States, Ras Al-Khaimah, Bani Yas, Eastern Arabian, Shaikha Hussa, British Government, Shaikh Sa'id, Buraimi Oasis, Middle East, Shaikh Muhammed, Shaikh Sultan, East Africa, Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Mubarak, Shaikh Saqr, Bani Qitab, Empty Quarter, Peter Lienhardt, Saudi Arabia, Shaikh Rashid, Arabic of the Gulf, British Resident, Lorimer's Gazetteer New!
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- Middle East Review: All the Central Asia States of the Former USSR, Plus Countries Such as Libya, Egypt and Algeria by Hunter Publishing in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Making of the Modern Gulf States by Rosemarie Said Zahlan in Back Matter
- Arabia and the Gulf by Ian Richard Netton in Back Matter
- Middle East (Pt. 19) in Back Matter
- The Arab Gulf and the Arab World by B. R. Pridham in Back Matter
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- With United Strength in Back Matter
- Britain's Revival and Fall in the Gulf: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the Trucial States, 1950-71 (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of the Middle East) by Simon C. Smith in Back Matter
- Community, Identity and the State: Comparing Africa, Eurasia, Latin America and the Middle East by Moshe Gammer on page 169
- Middle East and North African Immigrants in Europe: Current Impact; Local and National Responses by Dr. Ahmed Al-Shahi in Front Matter
- Transnational Connections and the Arab Gulf (Routledge Research in Transnationalism) by Madawi Al-Rasheed on page 88
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