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The Arab East and the Bedouin Component in Modern History: Emerging Perspectives on the Arid Lands as a Social Space

The Arab East and the Bedouin Component in Modern History: Emerging Perspectives on the Arid... In this paper we argue that historians of the eastern Arab lands (Ar. al-mashriq al-ʿarabī ) should turn their attention to the Bedouins for two main reasons. First, the societies in the Arab East cannot be adequately understood without a full evaluation of their Bedouin component, especially outside urban areas. Second, studying the Bedouins can open new perspectives on important debates in Middle Eastern historiography. The paper further contends that the arid lands of the Arab East still need to be explored as a historical region with its own distinct patterns of regional connectivity and political organisation. Finally, we highlight environmental history and the study of emic categories as promising avenues for future research on this region. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Brill

The Arab East and the Bedouin Component in Modern History: Emerging Perspectives on the Arid Lands as a Social Space

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
Subject
Introduction
ISSN
0022-4995
eISSN
1568-5209
DOI
10.1163/15685209-12341366
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Abstract

In this paper we argue that historians of the eastern Arab lands (Ar. al-mashriq al-ʿarabī ) should turn their attention to the Bedouins for two main reasons. First, the societies in the Arab East cannot be adequately understood without a full evaluation of their Bedouin component, especially outside urban areas. Second, studying the Bedouins can open new perspectives on important debates in Middle Eastern historiography. The paper further contends that the arid lands of the Arab East still need to be explored as a historical region with its own distinct patterns of regional connectivity and political organisation. Finally, we highlight environmental history and the study of emic categories as promising avenues for future research on this region.

Journal

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the OrientBrill

Published: Apr 10, 2015

Keywords: Bedouins; Middle East; Ottoman Empire; interwar period; arid lands; connectivity; historiography; history of ideas

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