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Society and state in the
Gulf and Arab Peninsula
A different perspective
Khaldoun Hasan al-Naqeeb
Translated under the aegis of PROTA
(Project of Translation from Arabic)
Director: Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Translated by L. M. Kenny
Emended by Ibrahim Hayani
First published 1990 by Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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1990 Centre for Arab Unity Studies
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al-Naqeeb, Khaldoun Hasan, 1941-
Society and state in the Gulf and Arab Peninsula : a
different perspective.
1. Arab. Society. Sociopolitical aspects
I. Title
306.0953
ISBN 0-415-04162-7
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Naqib, Khaldun Hasan.
[Mujtama' wa-al-dawlah fi al-Khalij wa-al-Jazirah al-'Arabiyah. English]
Society and state in the Gulf and Arab Peninsula: a different perspective / Khaldoun Hasan al-Naqeeb; translated by L.M. Kenny; emended by Ibrahim Hayani.
p. cm.
Translation of: al-Mujtama wa-al-dawlah fi al-Khalij wa-al -Jazirah al-'Arabiyah.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-415-04162-7
1. Arabian Peninsula-Politics and government. 2. Politics, Practical-Arabian Peninsula-History. 3. Social mobility-Arabian Peninsula-History. 4. Arabian Peninsula-Economic conditions. 5. Islam and state-Arabian Peninsula-History. I. Title. JQ1825.A75N3613 1990
320.953-dc20
90-37017
CIP
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Foreword
This book about society and state in the Gulf and the Arab Peninsula, by Dr Khaldoun al-Naqeeb, is one of five books dealing with society and state in the Arab homeland, published by the Centre for Arab Unity Studies, as part of the Project for the Prospective Future of the Arab Homeland. The other four volumes are as follows:
Society and State in the Arab East , by Dr Ghassan Salamah
Society and State in the Arab West , by Dr Abd al-Baqi al-Hermasi
The Central State in Egypt , by Dr Nazih al-Ayyubi
Society and State in the Arab World , by Dr Saad al-Din Ibrahim et al .
Since these five books about society and state are part of a larger and more comprehensive scientific endeavour, they must be read in the context of this project, about which we should say a word.
The Project for the Prospective Future of the Arab Homeland represents the first large co-operative scientific effort in which a select group of Arab scholars, professors, and experts in the various fields of knowledge have tried to explore the potentialities of the Arab nation in the present and the future, within the framework of the numerous variables which dominate the regional and world systems. In spite of previous praiseworthy attempts by colleagues and other organizations in this field, what the Project for the Prospective Future of the Arab Homeland proffers is unprecedented with respect to its comprehensive and encyclopedic nature, its approaches and methodologies, the number of native sons of the Arab nation stretching from the Atlantic to the Gulf who have shared in its studies, the period of time it has taken, and the number of Arab organizations which have participated in and supported it. From this standpoint, the project is an Arab scientific, co-operative, unifying effort in every sense of the word.
The theoretical and methodological considerations which have governed the undertaking of this great project have been presented in detail in an independent volume which was published by the Centre (Khair el-Din Haseeb et al., The Future of the Arab Nation: Challenges and Choices , Beirut: Centre for Arab Unity Studies, 1988). It is sufficient here to address two points: the first regarding the principal foci of the project in general; and the second concerning the Society and state focus in particular.