Tribes and state formation in the Middle East / edited by Philip S. Khoury and Joseph Kostiner.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-334) and index.

IN MEMORY OF MALCOLM - Introduction: Tribes and the Complexities of State Formation in the Middle East -- PART 1. HISTORICAL, ANTHROPOLOGICAL, METHODOLOGICAL, AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES : Tribes and State Formation in Islamic History - Anthropologists, Historians, and Tribespeople on Tribe and State Formation in the Middle East - Anthropological Theories of Tribe and State Formation in the Middle East: Ideology and the Semiotics of Power - Tribalism and the State in the Middle East - The Simultaneity of the Unsimultaneous: Old Tribes and Imposed Nation-States in the Modern Middle East - Tribe and State Relations: The Inner Asian Perspective -- PART 2. MIDDLE EASTERN CASE STUDIES : Tribes and the State in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Iran - Transforming Dualities: Tribe and State Formation in Saudi Arabia - Imams and Tribes: The Writing and Acting of History in Upper Yemen - Tribe and State: Libyan Anomalies - Conclusion: Tribes and States in Islamic History - GLOSSARY OF MIDDLE EASTERN TERMS.