Indian Ocean Migrants and State Formation in Hadhramaut: Reforming the Homeland

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-12850-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 87, 598 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 1247 g

Reihe: Social, Economic and Political

The author discusses the modern history of Hadhramaut in a novel way. Linked to the Indian Ocean through a long history of migration, she traces the ways in which members of the diaspora and travellers interacted with the homeland through their remittances, political initiatives and the introduction of new ideas and institutions. The book is based on a wide range of hitherto unused Hadhrami and British sources as well as on fieldwork in Yemen and Indonesia.
Exemplary life-histories of merchants and scholars illustrate the wide range of concerns for the establishment of stable polities in a tribal society. This is linked to the careful analysis of the impact of imperial rule both in the lands of the diaspora and in Hadhramaut in chapters focussing on state- and institution-formation. Developments in Hadhramaut are regarded as a prism for the development of modernity in the wider Muslim and Indian Ocean worlds which was adapted to local conditions and needs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Freitag, Ulrike

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Historische Migrationsforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 7. - 14. Jahrhundert
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Über Autor(innen)

Ulrike Freitag, Ph.D. (1991) in History, University of Freiburg, is the Director of the Centre of Modern Oriental Studies and Professor of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität, Berlin. She has published on Arab historiography and co-edited with W. G. Clarence-Smith Hadhrami Traders, Scholars and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s-1960s (Brill, 1997).