Yoav Alon

The Shaykh of Shaykhs

Mithqal Al-Fayiz and Tribal Leadership in Modern Jordan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Yoav Alon is Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of The Making of Jordan: Tribes, Colonialism, and the Modern States (2009).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780804796620
• ISBN-10: 0804796629
• Artikelnr.: 44382430

Autorenporträt

Yoav Alon is Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of The Making of Jordan: Tribes, Colonialism, and the Modern States (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Born a Shaykh
2. From Maverick to Powerful Shaykh
3. The Decade of Power and Glory
4. Between Tent, Camp, and House
5. Times of Crisis
6. Disgruntled Accommodation
Epilogue: Jordan after Mithqal