A Tribal Order : Politics and Law in the Mountains of Yemen.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Currency -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I: THE TRIBAL SYSTEM -- Chapter One: Environment and Economy -- Chapter Two: Social and Political Inequality -- Chapter Three: The Tribes of Razih -- Chapter Four: Tribal Leadership -- Chapter Five: Wider Structures and Relations -- PART II: TRIBAL GOVERNANCE -- Chapter Six: Principles, Rules, and Sanctions -- Chapter Seven: Enforcing the Law -- Chapter Eight: Conflict and Violence -- PART III: THE STATE-TRIBE RELATIONSHIP -- Chapter Nine: The Qasimi Period -- Chapter Ten: The Hamid al-Dın Period -- Chapter Eleven: The Republican Period -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1: Chronology of Events Affecting Razih: 1530s-1990s -- Appendix 2: Catalogue of Razihi Documents -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- List of Figures -- Figure 0.1. Map of west and north Yemen -- Figure 1.1. Map of Khawlan ibn 'Amir -- Figure 1.2. Administrative divisions of the Province of Sa'dah -- Figure 1.3. Cross-section through the northern highlands -- Figure 1.4. The market of al-Nazır -- Figure 1.5. Donkeys climbing through Razih -- Figure 1.6. Plan of madınat al-Nazır -- Figure 1.7. View of madınat al-Nazır -- Figure 1.8. Ploughing in al-Nazır -- Figure 2.1. A dagger dance -- Figure 2.2. A circumcision ceremony -- Figure 2.3. Graduates of a Quran school -- Figure 2.4. Cafe woman making bread -- Figure 2.5. A Quran teacher -- Figure 2.6. Marriage according to status category -- Figure 3.1. Diagram of tribal structures -- Figure 3.2. Shaykh and elder conversing -- Figure 3.3. Tribal map of Razih and 'Uqarib -- Figure 3.4. Guard tower -- Figure 4.1. Genealogy the shaykhs of al-Nazır -- Figure 4.2. A shaykh of al-Nazır and sons -- Figure 4.3. A shaykh serving food to guests -- Figure 4.4. Procession to welcome a shaykh home.

Figure 4.5. Drawing up a defection contract -- Figure 5.1. The maradd of Razih -- Figure 5.2. The moieties and maradds of Khawlan ibn 'Amir -- Figure 6.1. A neighborhood mosque -- Figure 6.2. A shaykh drawing up papers -- Figure 7.1. Tribesmen discussing a problem -- Figure 7.2. A judge doing a property division -- Figure 7.3. Animals in the marketplace -- Figure 7.4. Man begging for help with a blood debt -- Figure 7.5. Money changer in the market -- Figure 8.1. Shaykhs and sayyids discussing a case -- Figure 8.2. Circular tribal meeting -- Figure 8.3. A shaykh making a speech -- Figure 8.4. Discussing contributions to litigation -- Figure 8.5. Scroll litigation proceedings -- Figure 8.6. A shaykh arriving for a peace ceremony -- Figure 8.7. Peace ceremony -- Figure 9.1. Men praying for rain -- Figure 9.2. Genealogy of rulers, seventeenth-nineteenth centuries -- Figure 9.3. Fortress on Jabal Hurum -- Figure 9.4. House of former dawlah of Razih -- Figure 10.1. Genealogy of rulers, nineteenth-twentieth centuries -- Figure 10.2. Fort in southern Razih -- Figure 10.3. Fortress in northern Razih -- Figure 10.4. Sayyid tombstone -- Figure 10.5. Measuring grain -- Figure 11.1. Genealogy of sayyids in al-Nazir -- Figure 11.2. Razihi dignitaries on Republican day -- Figure 11.3. A shaykh entertaining his supporters -- Figure 11.4. Suq al-Nazır -- Appendix 2.1. The dawlah of Razih offers a senior shaykh an annual stipend of grain and coffee, 1746 -- Appendix 2.2. Defense pact between the dawlahs of the mashriq and Razih, 1780 -- Appendix 2.3. Defense pact between four Razih tribes, 1814 -- Appendix 2.4. Agreement between shaykhs about taxes and stipends, 1838 -- Appendix 2.5. Shaykh pledges allegiance and taxes to the dawlah of Razih, 1845 -- Appendix 2.6. Agreement between four Razih tribes about law enforcement, 1863.

Appendix 2.7. Report by the judge of Razih about the settlement of war claims, 1931 -- List of Tables -- Table 0.1. Rulers of Razih, sixteenth to twenty-first centuries -- Table 1.1. The weekly markets of Qada Razih -- Table 1.2. Settlement patterns in Qada Razih and al-Nazir -- Table 1.3. Residence pattern in al-Nazir -- Table 1.4. Main sources of income in al-Nazir -- Table 1.5. Residence of shopkeepers in al-Nazir -- Table 2.1. Marriage patterns in al-Nazir -- Table 3.1. The tribes and shaykhly clans of Qada Razih -- Table 3.2. Clan marriage patterns -- Table 3.3. Composition of Naziri settlements by descent and status -- Table 3.4. The tribes of shawami and yamani Razih -- Table 3.5. The territories and wards of the tribes of Razih -- Table 5.1. The "brother" tribes of Qada Razih -- Table 5.2. The moiety affiliations of the tribes of Qada Razih.

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