This dissertation uses legal traditions (h[dotbelow]adith ) dating from the early 2nd /8th century to assess the historical reliability of sectarian narratives purporting to be early but preserved in non-contemporary historical and heresiographical works. These legal texts are p…
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Since 2004, the Yemeni government has been fighting a bloody civil war with local Zaydi Shia forces known as the Houthis in the country's north. Conventional explanations rooted in the recent history of the civil war fail to adequately account for the rise of the rebels and thei…
The purpose of this dissertation is to use a Foucauldian lens to examine the nature and scope of the many challenges the British faced in southwest Arabia in the wake of the retreating Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War. The subsequent power vacuum which ensued mea…