The Tale of a Feud

Domination, Resistance, and Agency in Highland Yemen
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54698-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 132, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia

This book chronicles the life and times of tribal leader Mujahid Haydar, scion of a prominent local dynasty, and his agency in highland Yemen’s political conflicts from the 1970s to the early 2000s. When the political elites of the Salih regime murder his father and his elder brothers, he is forced to exact revenge and lead his tribe through dramatic vicissitudes that culminate in the catastrophe of the Huthi wars. Mujahid’s life is a story of ongoing strife, heroism, resistance, commitment to the defence of honour, loss, and exile. His biography offers nuanced and original insights into how tribal politics in Yemen influence the domain of the state and are often intertwined with it – such that neither can be comprehended independently from the other.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brandt, Marieke

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps and Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Notes on Transliteration

Glossary

Abbreviations

Chronology

Chapter 1: Childhood in Obscurity

Chapter 2: The Serpent with the Many Heads

Chapter 3: Burdensome Inheritances

Chapter 4: The Road to Politics

Chapter 5: The Time of Faits Accomplis

Chapter 6: Those Who Loosen and Those Who Bind

Some Final Thoughts on Tribes, Politics, and Passions

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marieke Brandt is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She is the author of Tribes and Politics in Yemen: A History of the Houthi Conflict (Oxford University Press, 2017).