Monsoon Revolution - Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-1976

At a time when Arab revolutionary movements are once again dominating the headlines, Monsoon Revolution offers a fresh reading of the Arab revolutionary tradition, examining one of its foremost case studies: the Dhufar revolution in Oman (1965-1976).

About the author

Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti is a Lecturer in International History at the University of Sheffield. He holds a DPhil from St Antony's College, Oxford and was a Junior Research Fellow in Political History at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

Summary

At a time when Arab revolutionary movements are once again dominating the headlines, Monsoon Revolution offers a fresh reading of the Arab revolutionary tradition, examining one of its foremost case studies: the Dhufar revolution in Oman (1965-1976).

Additional text

Abdel Razzaq Takriti's excellent book will quickly be established as the definitive account of the revolutionary Arab nationalist and third worldist armed struggle in Dhufar, waged against the absolutist sultan of Oman and the British Empire from 1965 to 1976 ... this work draws with considerable maturity and skill on British colonial documents, Arab personal collections, unpublished papers, and interviews, and as such offers unprecedented empirical depth. Takriti's polished prose illuminates much that was unclear or misunderstood about the revolutionary movement itself, its major organizational changes and strategies, its revolutionary culture, its forms of republicanism and citizenship, and especially its transnational links to the Arab nationalist movement and the third world.

Product details

• Authors: Abdel Razzaq Takriti
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.07.2013
• EAN: 9780199674435
• ISBN: 978-0-19-967443-5
• No. of pages: 354
• Series: Oxford Historical Monographs; Oxford Historical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Middle East / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Middle East, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Middle Eastern history, Colonialism and imperialism, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions