TY - JOUR
AU - Al-Moqatei, Mohammad
AB -  INTRODUCING ISLAMIC LAW IN THE ARAB GULF STATES: A CASE STUDY OF KUWAIT Mohammad Al-Moqatei* INTRODUCTION In order to gain a better understanding of the Kuwaiti experience, it is necessary to look at Kuwait in the context of the other Arab Gulf States. The members of the Gulf Co-operation Council are: Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. One of the most important elements that led to the establishment of the G.C.C. by these States was the body of basic characteristics which they share, some related to their historical foundation, and some to the problems of their present and future econ- omic and political survival in independence. All these States were ruled directly or indirectly by the Ottoman Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.' All of them were subject to British Government protection through many different treaties. However, despite these historical ties, the internal affairs of each State lay in the hands of old tribal families which originally settled in these areas in the course of a large-scale immigration from Najd2 in the Arabian Peninsula. The law that dominated all these States during the nineteenth century up until the early fifties was the 
TI - Introducing Islamic Law in the Arab Gulf States: a Case Study of Kuwait
JF - Arab Law Quarterly
DO - 10.1163/157302589X00226
DA - 1989-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/introducing-islamic-law-in-the-arab-gulf-states-a-case-study-of-kuwait-MmGSwff4YB
SP - 138
EP - 148
VL - 4
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -