Islam, Memory, and Morality in Yemen tells a story of a Yemeni hereditary elite which was overthrown in the 1962 revolution in North Yemen. For over a millennium, they had enjoyed exclusive rights to the leadership of the Imamate, the religiously sanctioned state. Following the violent removal from power of King Faysal of Iraq in 1958, the overthrow of the Yemeni Imamate – the longest lasting Hashimite rule in the Middle East – confirmed the decline of Hashimite power (held by rul...
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List of Figures and Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword; F.Halliday Glossary Introduction: Locating Memory: The Politics of Incorporation and Differentiation PART...
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GABRIELE VOM BRUCK lectures in the Anthropology of the Middle East, Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK.