Table of Contents

Bibliographical Survey. 1. Some Western Studies of Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Aden Derek Hopwood Part 1. History 2. The Development of the Gulf States Ahmad Mustafa Abu-Hakima 3. Wahhabism and Saudi Arabia George Rentz 4. The Origins of the Omani State J.C. Wilkinson 5. Maritime Trade and Imamate Government: Two Principal Themes in the History of Oman to 1728 R.D. Bathust 6. A Prevalence of Furies: Tribes, Politics and Religion in Oman and Trucial Oman J.B.Kelly Part 2. Political Developments and International Relations 7. The Arabian Peninsula in Arab and Power Politics A.R. Kelidar 8. Britain, Iran and the Persian Gulf: Some Aspects of the Situation in the 1920s and 1930s R.M. Burrell 9. Social and Political Change in the Third World: Some Peculiarities of Oil-Producing Principalities of the Persian Gulf Frank Stoakes Part 3. Sociology and Culture 10. Some Social Aspects of the Trucial States P.A. Lienhardt 11. Measuring the Changing Family Consumption Patterns of Aramco’s Saudi Arab employees, 1962 and 1968 Thomas W. Shea 12. Education and the Press in South Arabia Ali Muhammad Luqman 4. Economics 13. Oil and State in Arabia Edith Penrose 14. Problems and Prospects of Development in the Arabian Peninsula Yusuf A. Sayigh

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Derek Hopwood