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Indian Ocean Migrants and State Formation in Hadhramaut
Reforming the Homeland

English · Leather / Fine binding

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The author discusses the modern history of Hadhramaut in a novel way. Linked to the Indian Ocean through a long history of migration, she traces the ways in which members of the diaspora and travellers interacted with the homeland through their remittances, political initiatives and the introduction of new ideas and institutions. The book is based on a wide range of hitherto unused Hadhrami and British sources as well as on fieldwork in Yemen and Indonesia.
Exemplary life-histories of merchants and scholars illustrate the wide range of concerns for the establishment of stable polities in a tribal society. This is linked to the careful analysis of the impact of imperial rule both in the lands of the diaspora and in Hadhramaut in chapters focussing on state- and institution-formation. Developments in Hadhramaut are regarded as a prism for the development of modernity in the wider Muslim and Indian Ocean worlds which was adapted to local conditions and needs.


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Authors Ulrike Freitag
Publisher Brill
 
Content Book
Product form Leather / Fine binding
Publication date 25.09.2003
Subject Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories
 
EAN 9789004128507
ISBN 978-90-04-12850-7
Pages 598
Dimensions (packing) 17 x 24.5 x 4.4 cm
Weight (packing) 1,247 g
 
Series Social, Economic and Political > 87
Subjects Asien, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Middle East / General, ARCHITECTURE / Interior Design / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, History - General History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies
 

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