The Arabian Peninsula : society and politics

Foreword by A. H. Hourani and P. J. Vatikiotis 7

Note on Transliteration 8

Notes on the Contributors 11

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SURVEY

1. Some Western Studies of Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Aden

DEREK HOPWOOD 13

PART I HISTORY

2. The Development of the Gulf States

AHMAD MUSTAFA ABU-HAKIMA 31

3. Wahhabism and Saudi Arabia

GEORGE RENTZ 54

4. The Origins of the Omani State

J. C. WILKINSON 67

5. Maritime Trade and Imamate Government: Two Principal Themes in the History of Oman to 1728

R. D. BATHURST 89

6. A Prevalence of Furies: Tribes, Politics, and Religion in Oman and Trucial Oman

J. B. KELLY 107

PART II POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

7. The Arabian Peninsula in Arab and Power Politics

A. R. KELIDAR 145

8. Britain, Iran and the Persian Gulf: Some Aspects of the Situation in the 1920s and 1930s

R. M. BURRELL 160

9. Social and Political Change in the Third World: Some Peculiarities of Oil-Producing Principalities of the Persian Gulf

FRANK STOAKES 189

PART III SOCIOLOGY AND CULTURE

10. Some Social Aspects of the Trucial States

P. A. LIENHARDT 219

11. Measuring the Changing Family Consumption Patterns of Aramco's Saudi Arab Employees, 1962 and 1968

THOMAS W. SHEA 231

12. Education and the Press in South Arabia

ALI MUHAMMAD LUQMAN 255

PART IV ECONOMICS

13. Oil and State in Arabia

EDITH PENROSE 271

14. Problems and Prospects of Development in the Arabian Peninsula

YUSIF A. SAYIGH 286

Index 310