Tribes and state formation in the Middle East

Rev. papers from the Conference on Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, held in Cambridge, Mass., in Nov. 1987.

Introduction : tribes and the complexities of state formation in the Middle East / Philip S. Khoury and Joseph Kostiner -- Historical, anthropological, methodological, and comparative perspectives. Tribes and state formation in Islamic history / Ira M. Lapidus -- Anthropologists, historians, and tribespeople ontribe and state formation in the Middle East / Richard Tapper -- Anthropological theories of tribe and state formation in the Middle East : ideology and the semiotics of power / Steven C. Caton -- Tribalism and the state in the Middle East/ Ernest Gellner -- The simultaneity of the unsimultaneous : old tribes and imposed nation-states in the modern Middle East / Bassam Tibi -- Tribe and state relations : the inner Asian perspective / Thomas J. Barfield -- Middle Eastern case studies. Tribes and the state in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Iran / LoisBeck -- Transforming dualitites : tribe and state formation in Saudi Arabia / Joseph Kostiner -- Imams and tribes : the writing and acting of history i