Islam, Memory, and Morality in Yemen: Ruling Families in by Gabriele vom Bruck,Fred Halliday

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By Gabriele vom Bruck,Fred Halliday

Islam, reminiscence, and Morality in Yemen tells a narrative of a Yemeni hereditary elite which used to be overthrown within the 1962 revolution in North Yemen. For over a millennium, that they had loved unique rights to the management of the Imamate, the religiously sanctioned kingdom. Following the violent elimination from strength of King Faysal of Iraq in 1958, the overthrow of the Yemeni Imamate - the longest enduring Hashimite rule within the heart East - proven the decline of Hashimite strength (held via ruling generations claiming descent from the Prophet Muhammad). even if, instead of focusing on fresh political historical past, Islam, reminiscence, and Morality in Yemen highlights the non-public obstacle of these precise by way of the revolution, within which they served because the foil for the hot regime's ethical and political ascendancy. concentrating on the cultural politics of reminiscence, the publication explores how participants of the elite take note within the strategy of making feel in their present lives and formulating responses to adversity.

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