UID:
edocfu_9958353694202883
Format:
1 online resource (621p.):
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23 Taf./plates
ISBN:
9783110223408
Series Statement:
Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients ; N.F. 25
Content:
Based on interviews and field research, the authors explore the sets of ideas Arab tribespeople from Ras Al-Khaimah had about tribe and community; social and economic networks, and jural contracts for livelihoods and profits; their uses of their environments; the moral relations of credit, debt and labour; ruling; economic and political transformations; and ideas of regional history where conflicts were regarded as disputes over sets of ideas, and informal accounts of tribal and local histories.Published sources give a wider context to these ideas and events which show the great complexity and differing perspectives of “life before oil” in the Gulf.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Preface --
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Acknowledgements --
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Contents --
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1 Social matters: social infrastructure, premises and practice --
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2 Sea people, ahl al-bahr, and how they lived --
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3 Livelihoods and living on the coastal plains or sayh, and the sands --
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4 Ru'us al-Jibal mountains; livelihoods and living --
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5 The western Hajar mountains; livelihoods and living --
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6 Distribution, trade, investment, credit and debt --
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7 Ruling and Rulers --
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8 'What happened to turn our world upside down?' --
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9 Back to History --
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Bibliography --
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Index --
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List of Figures --
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Plates
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978-3-11-022339-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110223408
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110223408
