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Politics in an Arabian Oasis: The Rashidis of Saudi Arabia
by Madawi Al Rasheed
- HISTORY
- 1997
- PAPER
- 300 PAGES
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A social history of Rashidi rulers of 19th-century Central Arabia. The author, an anthropologist, draws on travelers' reports, oral traditions and scholarship to describe this camel-herding people. He looks too at how the once-proud tribe has been integrated into 20th-century Saudia Arabian society.
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