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ISBN 13: 9781138874466
Author: Madawi Al Rasheed
Transnational Connections and the Arab Gulf presents a study of transnational cultural flows in the Gulf region and beyond. It combines an understanding of the region's historical connections with the outside world and an assessment of contemporary consequences of these connections. The contributors collected here analyze and map historical and contemporary manifestations of transnational networks within this region, linking them to wider debates on society, identity and political culture.
Part I: Historical reflections on Gulf transnationalism
1 An anational society: Eastern Arabia in the Ottoman period
Sketches of society
Religious groups
Geographic horizons of society
Trade ties with a wider world
The beginning of the end
Notes
Bibliography
2 Mapping the transnational community: Persians and the space of the city in Bahrain, c.1869–1937
Manamah and the political economy of al-Khalifah rule
Persian migrations and family networks
Persians in the city
Political loyalties
Notes
Bibliography
3 Transnational merchants in the nineteenth-century Gulf: The case of the Safar family
Introduction
Transnational merchant studies and the Gulf
The Safar family
The Safars’ relations with the rulers of Bahrain and Kuwait
The Safars’ collaboration with the British
Transnational connections in the Gulf, then and now
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Part II: Global and local networks
4 Dubai: global city and transnational hub
Dubai as a world city
Subaltern globalization: Africa as a new frontier for Dubai?
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
5 The emergence of a pan-Arab market in modern media industries
Integrating into a global system
…But still operating within a distinctly Arab market
Investing, acting and strategizing on a pan-Arab scale
In search of a pan-Arab market and revenues
In search of regional skills and talent
In search of local assets
The emergence of a few omnipresent pan-Arab media financiers
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
6 Indonesians in Saudi Arabia: Religious and economic connections
Religious contacts before the Second World War
Anti-colonial ideas and Dutch reactions
Migration in the post-Second World War period
Struggling for a share in the Saudi Arabian labour market
The host society’s relationship with TKW and pilgrims
Efforts of NGOs in the field of labour migration
The impact on bilateral relations and future development
Notes
Bibliography
Part III: Beyond the Arab Gulf
7 Saudi religious transnationalism in London
Local discourse on religious transnationalism
The reality of the Saudi presence in London
The ‘Saudization’ of British Islam
Saudi sponsorship of religious institutions in London
Debating Saudi religious transnationalism
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
8 Wahhabism in the United Kingdom: Manifestations and reactions
Notes
Bibliography
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