1st Edition

The Arabian Peninsula Society and Politics

Edited By Derek Hopwood Copyright 1972
320 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

Although the Arabian Peninsula is the heartland of Islam and of the Arab world, for decades it did not receive the attention it deserves from scholars and writers. The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and the Middle East Centre of St Antony’s College, Oxford, jointly organized a series of seminars, culminating in a conference at which the papers in this volume (first... Read more

Bibliographical Survey.  1. Some Western Studies of Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Aden Derek Hopwood  Part 1. History  2. The Development of the Gulf States Ahmad Mustafa Abu-Hakima  3. Wahhabism and Saudi Arabia George Rentz  4. The Origins of the Omani State J.C. Wilkinson  5. Maritime Trade and Imamate Government: Two Principal Themes in the History of Oman to 1728 R.D. Bathust  6. A Prevalence of Furies: Tribes, Politics and Religion in Oman and Trucial Oman J.B.Kelly  Part 2. Political Developments and International Relations  7. The Arabian Peninsula in Arab and Power Politics A.R. Kelidar  8. Britain, Iran and the Persian Gulf: Some Aspects of the Situation in the 1920s and 1930s R.M. Burrell  9. Social and Political Change in the Third World: Some Peculiarities of Oil-Producing Principalities of the Persian Gulf Frank Stoakes  Part 3. Sociology and Culture  10. Some Social Aspects of the Trucial States P.A. Lienhardt  11. Measuring the Changing Family Consumption Patterns of Aramco’s Saudi Arab employees, 1962 and 1968 Thomas W. Shea  12. Education and the Press in South Arabia Ali Muhammad Luqman  4. Economics  13. Oil and State in Arabia Edith Penrose  14. Problems and Prospects of Development in the Arabian Peninsula Yusuf A. Sayigh

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Derek Hopwood