Tribalism and Rural Society in the Islamic World

Contents: Segmentarity and its problems: The Evidence of Fieldwork among Moroccan Berbers and Pakistani Pukhtuns, Plus Personal Reflections. Highland Tribesmen in Morocco and the Afghanistan/Pakistan Frontier. Regionalism, Ethnicity, Tribalism and Islam in Morocco and Pakistan. Segmentary Lineage Structure vs. Personal Strategy, and Feud vs. Vendetta: Examples from Berber Morocco and the Pakistan North West Frontier. Kinship and Marriage Among Moroccan Berbers and Pakistani Pukhtuns: An Exercise in Murdockian Typology. Tradition, Continuity and Modernity in Islamic Customary Law: Examples from Berber Morocco and the Pukhtun Tribal Agencies of Pakistan. Berbers in Al Andalus, Pathans in Hindustan: Muslim Tribesmen Soldiers Away from Home. The Yemeni Highlands and the Moroccan Rif: A comparison of Tribal Customary Law in Two Islamic Societies. The Image of the Berber as the Spanish Other: Guanche-Berber Connections in the Aboriginal Canary Islands and Berbers in Muslim Alandalus. The Bloodfeud in Traditional North Albanian Society Viewed from the Perspectives of Tribal Structures in the Maghrib and the Mashriq.