This study examines the nature of the relationship between Islamist social movement parties and tribes. Specifically, it is argued that, in countries with strong tribal heritages and free elections, Islamist movement parties will seek to integrate tribal networks and attend to t…
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My dissertation project explores the discourse and practices of Ottoman rule between 1872 and 1919 in geographical Yemen. Drawing on a broad range of archival and published sources in Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, and English such as government papers, travelogues, local petitions an…
Fieldwork conducted in the late 1990s involved getting to know women of all ages and their life stories in a neighborhood of Old Sana', the Republic of Yemen. Most women were married young and are housewives. The neighborhood social life promotes traditionalism and a gendered di…
Soqotra is the main island of a four-island Archipelago, and is undergoing an accelerated change process driven by a dual incorporation process: First, the Yemeni government's modernization of its infrastructure and consolidation of its political incorporation into the national …
The complex interaction of historical forces that include the evolution of state institutions, global market consolidation, imperial expansion and the rise of a new diplomatic order has often been represented as a reflection of dichotomous social, economic and political factors.…
Government archives are at present a key factor for sustainable development for every nation. With the requirements of globalisation, Arab countries, in their majority, have to think about their government archives, neglected for a long time, in order to allow their administrati…
This is the first comprehensive study of late medieval Yemeni mysticism (Sufism) in Western scholarship. It examines the life and works of perhaps the greatest religious and mystical thinker of pre-modern Yemen, Ah[dotbelow]mad b. 'Alwân (Ibn 'Alwân). Although he died seven and …