Download or read book Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen written by Paul Dresch and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dresch here combines ethnography with history to describe the system of sedentary tribes in South Arabia--a strategically sensitive part of the world--over the past thousand years. He examines the values and traditions the tribal people bring to the contemporary world of nation-states, and discusses the relation of the major tribes to pre-modern Islamic learning, the Zaydi Imamate, ideas of contemporary statehood, and the area as a whole.