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Of Sand or Soil - Genealogy and Tribal Belonging in Saudi Arabia (Paperback)
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Of Sand or Soil - Genealogy and Tribal Belonging in Saudi Arabia (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
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Why do tribal genealogies matter in modern-day Saudi Arabia? What
compels the strivers and climbers of the new Saudi Arabia to want
to prove their authentic descent from one or another prestigious
Arabian tribe? Of Sand or Soil looks at how genealogy and tribal
belonging have informed the lives of past and present inhabitants
of Saudi Arabia and how the Saudi government's tacit glorification
of tribal origins has shaped the powerful development of the
kingdom's genealogical culture. Nadav Samin presents the first
extended biographical exploration of the major twentieth-century
Saudi scholar Hamad al-Jasir, whose genealogical studies frame the
story about belonging and identity in the modern kingdom. Samin
examines the interplay between al-Jasir's genealogical project and
his many hundreds of petitioners, mostly Saudis of nontribal or
lower status origin who sought validation of their tribal roots in
his genealogical texts. Investigating the Saudi relationship to
this opaque, orally inscribed historical tradition, Samin considers
the consequences of modern Saudi genealogical politics and how the
most intimate anxieties of nontribal Saudis today are amplified by
the governing strategies and kinship ideology of the Saudi state.
Challenging the impression that Saudi culture is determined by
puritanical religiosity or rentier economic principles, Of Sand or
Soil shows how the exploration and establishment of tribal
genealogies have become influential phenomena in contemporary Saudi
society. Beyond Saudi Arabia, this book casts important new light
on the interplay between kinship ideas, oral narrative, and state
formation in rapidly changing societies.
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