Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen

By Paul Dresch

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198273312
• ISBN13: 9780198273318
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Length: 470 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.3" x 5.7"