Notes

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. Aspects of Social Identity in Hadhramawt and Abroad
8. Identity in Hadhrami Society 11
9. Hadhrami Emigration and the Mahjar 39
10. The Ordering of Life in Town and Country
11. Urban and Rural Life in the Interior 67
12. Urban and Rural Life on the Coast and Its Hinterland 97
13. Social Institutions and the Emergence of Social Criticism
14. Rites of Passage, Ceremonies, and Social Critique 123
15. Religious Belief, Practice, and Education: Tradition, Revival, and Critique 149
16. Politics, Power, and Conflict
17. The Two Sultanates: Rivals from Inception to Union (1880s to 1918) 183
18. The Sultanates: Challengers and Reformers (1918 to 1936) 211
19. Conclusion 241
20. Rulers of Hadhramawt, Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 247
21. Qu‘ayti-Kathiri Agreement of 1918 (the Aden Agreement) 249
22. Notes 253
23. Selected Bibliography 277
24. Selected Bibliography 283
25. Index 287