Tribes Government and History in Yemen

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Tribes Government and History in Yemen

Author	: Paul Dresch
File Size	: 52,9 Mb
Publisher	: Oxford University Press, USA
Language	: English
Release Date	: 06 May 1989
ISBN	: UOM:39015054089001
Pages	: 486 pages

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Dresch here combines ethnography with history to describe the system of sedentary tribes in South Arabia--a strategically sensitive part of the world--over the past thousand years. He examines the values and traditions the tribal people bring to the contemporary world of nation-states, and discusses the relation of the major tribes to pre-modern Islamic learning, the Zaydi Imamate, ideas of contemporary statehood, and the area as a whole.

Tribes Government and History in Yemen by Paul Dresch

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Tribes Government and History in Yemen by Paul Dresch

Paul Dresch here combines ethnography with history to describe the system of sedentary tribes in South Arabia--a strategically sensitive part of the world--over the past thousand years. He examines the values and traditions the tribal people bring to the contemporary world of nation-states, and discusses the relation of the major

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