Tribes and state formation in the Middle East

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 on tribe 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 / Lois Beck

Transforming dualitites : tribe and state formation in Saudi Arabia / Joseph Kostiner.