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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783481103321

Autore

Freitag Ulrike

Titolo

Indian Ocean migrants and state formation in Hadhramaut : reforming the homeland / / Ulrike Freitag

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-280-46702-9

9786610467020

1-4237-1414-8

90-474-0176-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 589 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia ; ; v. 87

Disciplina

953.35

Soggetti

Ḥaḍramawt (Yemen : Province) Emigration and immigration History

Ḥaḍramawt (Yemen : Province) Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [537]-563) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Maps, Tables, Figures and Photographs; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Note on Transliteration and Terminology; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: The setting: Hadhramaut and the diaspora in the 19th century; CHAPTER TWO: Scholars, mystics and merchants: reformers and politicians in early and mid-19th century Wadi Hadhramaut; CHAPTER THREE: Sultans, notables and dawla: approaches to state building in Kathīrī and Qu'aytī lands (1840's-1920's); CHAPTER FOUR: Hadhrami migrants and reform in the Muslim world (c. 1860s-1920s)

CHAPTER FIVE: The Hadhrami 'renaissance' in South East Asia (1880's-1930's)CHAPTER SIX: Social criticism and reform in Hadhramaut, 1880's-mid 1930's; CHAPTER SEVEN: The al-KĀf road to Ingrams' peace: political developments in Hadhramaut, 1918-1937; CHAPTER EIGHT: Contested reform: development in Hadhramaut under British tutelage, 1937-1960s; CHAPTER NINE: The emergence of new elites and the demise of empire; Annexes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Based on Hadhrami and British sources, as well as on fieldwork in



Yemen and Indonesia, this text traces the ways in which members of the diaspora and travelers interacted with the homeland through their remittances, political initiatives and the introduction of new ideas and institutions.