Tribes and power : nationalism and ethnicity in the Middle East / edited by Faleh Abdul-Jabar and Hosham Dawod.

Includes index.

Agnatic illusions : the element of choice in Arab kinship / Edouard Conte -- Ibn Khaldun and contemporary anthropology : cycles and factional alliances of tribe and state in the Maghreb / Pierre Bonte -- Sheikhs and ideologues : deconstruction and reconstruction of tribes under patrimonial totalitarianism in Iraq, 1968-1998 / Faleh A. Jabar -- The 'state-ization' of the tribe and the tribalization of the state : the case of Iraq / Hosham Dawood -- Tribalization as a tool of state control in Iraq : observations on the army, the cabinets and the national assembly / Keiko Sakai -- Kurds, states and tribes / Martin van Bruinessen -- Yazidi tribes, religion and state in early modern Iraq / Nelida Fuccaro -- A few reflections on 'tribe' and 'state' in twentieth-century Morocco / Kenneth Brown -- Tribal confederations and emirates in central Arabia / Madawl al-Rasheed -- The White Tent programme : tribal education under / Muhammad Reza Shah / Farian Sabahi -- The social ontology of late colonialism : tribes and the mandated state in Iraq / Toby Dodge -- Tribes and nationalism : tribal political culture and behaviour in Iraq, 1914-20 / Thair Karim.