Съдържание:
  • Foreword /
  • Roy P. Mottahdeh
  • In memory of Malcolm Kerr /
  • Albert Hourani
  • Introduction : tribes and the complexities of state formation in the Middle East /
  • Philip S. Khoury and Joseph Kostiner
  • Historical, anthropological, methodological, and comparative perspectives. Tribes and state formation in Islamic history /
  • Ira M. Lapidus
  • Anthropologists, historians, and tribespeople on tribe and state formation in the Middle East /
  • Richard Tapper
  • Anthropological theories of tribe and state formation in the Middle East : ideology and the semiotics of power /
  • Steven C. Caton
  • Tribalism and the state in the Middle East /
  • Ernest Gellner
  • The simultaneity of the unsimultaneous : old tribes and imposed nation-states in the modern Middle East /
  • Bassam Tibi
  • Tribe and state relations : the inner Asian perspective /
  • Thomas J. Barfield
  • Middle Eastern case studies. Tribes and the state in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Iran /
  • Lois Beck
  • Transforming dualitites : tribe and state formation in Saudi Arabia /
  • Joseph Kostiner
  • Imams and tribes : the writing and acting of history in Upper Yemen /
  • Paul Dresch
  • Tribe and state : Libyan anomalies /
  • Lisa Anderson
  • Conclusion : Tribes and states in Islamic history /
  • Albert Hourani.