Table of Contents

List of plates; List of figures; List of tables; Transliteration; Introductory; The language of honour; Tribes and collective action; Estates of Society within the tribal peace; Sayyid history and historiography; History from the Qasimis to the Hamid al-Din (c.1600-1950); The September Revolution and the post-war republic; Village life and means of livelihood; The morphology of tribal self definition; Tribes and events in the modern world; Appendices;
Arabic references cited; References cited in European languages; Index

Reviews

A deeply engaged and engaging work, complexly and grandly conceived and wittily written, its scholarship is also miles above sea level. Times Literary Supplement For those who would like to know more about tribal life in North Yemen this book is full of interest. Dresch has been able to give a picture of a society destined to change, possibly out of recognition. Times Higher Education Supplement