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Counter-Narratives

History, Contemporary Society, and Politics in Saudi Arabia and Yemen

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  • © 2004

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Editors:
  1. Madawi Al-Rasheed

    1. King’s College, University of London, UK

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  2. Robert Vitalis

    1. University of Pennsylvania, USA

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Madawi Al-Rasheed, Robert Vitalis
    Pages 1-10

  3. Arabia Incognita: An Invitation to Arabian Peninsula Studies

    • Sheila Carapico
    Pages 11-33

  4. The ˋImama vs. the ˋIqal: Hadari—Bedouin Conflict and the Formation of the Saudi State

    • Abdulaziz H. Al-Fahad
    Pages 35-75

  5. Ecology, Knowledge, and Trade in Central Arabia (Najd) during the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

    • Guido Steinberg
    Pages 77-102

  6. Shifting Loyalties and Failed Empire: A New Look at the Social History of Late Ottoman Yemen, 1872–1918

    • Isa Blumi
    Pages 103-117

  7. Leaving Only Question-Marks: Geographies of Rule in Modern Yemen

    • John M. Willis
    Pages 119-149

  8. Aramco World: Business and Culture on the Arabian Oil Frontier

    • Robert Vitalis
    Pages 151-181

  9. The Capture of Riyadh Revisited: Shaping Historical Imagination in Saudi Arabia

    • Madawi Al-Rasheed
    Pages 183-200

  10. Struggles Over History and Identity: “Opening the Gates” of the Kingdom to Tourism

    • Gwenn Okruhlik
    Pages 201-228

  11. Evacuating Memory in Postrevolutionary Yemen

    • Gabriele vom Bruck
    Pages 229-245

  12. Seeing Like a Citizen, Acting Like a State: Exemplary Events in Unified Yemen

    • Lisa Wedeen
    Pages 247-283

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 285-313
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Saudi Arabia and Yemen are two countries of crucial importance in the Middle East and yet our knowledge about them is highly limited, while typical ways of looking at the histories of these countries have impeded understanding. Counter-Narratives brings together a group of leading scholars of the Middle East using new theoretical and methodological approaches to cross-examine standard stories, whether as told by Westerners or by Saudis and Yemenis, and these are found wanting. The authors assess how grand historical narratives such as those produced by states and colonial powers are currently challenged by multiple historical actors, a process which generates alternative narratives about identity, the state and society.

Reviews

"This volume is an important step in the effort to bring the study of the politics of the Arabian Peninsula into the mainstream of scholarship and to bring the full range of scholarly approaches to the study of the Peninsula. It breaks new ground on both empirical and interpretative levels." - F. Gregory Gause, III, Director of the Middle East Studies Program, University of Vermont

"Counter-Narratives brings together some of the finest new scholarship on the Arabian Peninsula. The contributors offer a rich analysis of social identity, political belonging, and historical transformation in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The book illuminates the differing roles of imperial powers, local hierarchies, intellectual reformers, oil companies, and other actors in shaping the region's modern politics. Conventional images of a world of tribes, rulers, and oilmen give way to finely textured interpretations of one of the most critically important areas of the contemporary world." - Timothy Mitchell. Professor of Politics, New York University

Editors and Affiliations

  • King’s College, University of London, UK

    Madawi Al-Rasheed

  • University of Pennsylvania, USA

    Robert Vitalis

About the editors

SHEILA CARAPICO University of Richmond, Virginia, USA ABDULAZIZ H. AL-FAHAD Attorney affiliated with Akin, Gump, USA GUIDO WALTER STEINBERG Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany ISA BLUMI New York University, USA JOHN MATTHEW WILLIS New York University, USA GWENN OKRUHLIK University of Arkansas, USA GABRIELE VOM BRUCK University of Edinburgh, UK

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