Nadav Samin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 232299 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nadav Samin |
| PRENOMES | Nadav |
| SOBRENOME | Samin |
| ASSINATURA | SAMIN N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Dartmouth College |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Poetry, Magic, and the Formation of Wahhabism
The Sunni revivalist Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (d. 1792) has been subjected to rigorous scrutiny by a number of scholars. Much remains unknown about Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb’s life and work, however, not least the rationale behind his idiosyncratic style of authorship. Examining the scholar’s theological writings from the vantage point of Arabia’s oral vernacular and popular religious traditions casts new light on the particularities of Ibn ʿAbd al-W…
Situating Tribes in History
The tribe presents a problem for the historian of the modern Middle East, particularly one interested in personalities, subtleties of culture and society, and other such “useless” things. By and large, tribes did not leave their own written records. The tribal author is a phenomenon of the present or the recent past. There are few twentieth century tribal figures comparable to the urban personalities to whose writings and influence we owe our und…
Laila Parsons. The Commander
This is not a history of victors. Fawzi al-Qawuqji (d. 1976), “itinerant anticolonial rebel” (80) of the late Ottoman and colonial Middle East, was born into a lower-middle-class Ottoman military family in Tripoli, Lebanon, and buried in an undistinguished grave there. Laila Parsons’s thoughtful and empathic study of Qawuqji’s professional life gives us much to consider about that iconic “transnational fighter” (250) of the colonial Arab world, n…
Saudi Primary Education and the Formation of Modern Wahhabism
The development of modern primary education in Saudi Arabia transformed Wahhabism in subtle yet significant ways. The art of instructing six- and seven-year-old children in the finer points of Wahhābī theology and law, as occurred in the new Saudi primary schools from 1929, may appear as the authentic continuation of a tradition within a modern institutional framework. Yet in point of fact, this foregrounding of theology constituted a departure f…
Saudi Clerics and Shiʿa Islam
In January 2016 the deputy crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Muhammad bin Salman, was asked by the Economist magazine about the prospect for young women's emancipation from the kingdom's system of male guardianship. Having boasted earlier of his profound control over most aspects of the kingdom's economy, defense, and foreign policy, Ibn Salman seemed here to throw up his hands: “This has its own social criteria and religious criteria. Some of them a…
Interpreting the Oil Kingdom
It is telling that Cambridge University Press commissioned two anthropologists to write its histories of modern Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Having escaped the experience of direct colonial rule, these countries do not fit comfortably into the dominant model of modern Middle Eastern history. It follows that the template for modern Saudi statehood cannot be retrieved from the colonial archives, or the postcolonial corporate ones, for that matter. Inste…
Daʿwa, Dynasty, and Destiny in the Arab Gulf
This article considers the question of collective identity formation in the Arab Gulf by looking at the distinctive ways in which the genealogies of the dominant kinship collective of the United Arab Emirates, the Banī Yās confederation, have been represented by that country's cultural and heritage-making institutions. I look comparatively at two high profile, state-sponsored, Emirati genealogical projects, one a site, and the other a text, and i…
Of Sand or Soil
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? This book 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 …
Of Sand or Soil
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 o…
Our Ancestors, Our Heroes
Scholars of Arab media have explored key aspects of Gulf-Levant media integration in the wake of the privatisation of Arab media over the past several decades. Their studies tend to characterise the controversies that arise from this integration in terms of the relative influence of Islamist or religious values on producers and consumers. Yet behind these Gulf-Levant tensions, this article will argue, there is also a different cultural logic at w…
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the Social Media Moment
In this paper, I reflect on the relationship between social media and the Arab uprisings of 2011, contrasting the Egyptian experience with that of Saudi Arabia. My argument is conditioned by the fact that I observed the uprising in Egypt from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a city in which, throughout the year of revolt that has gripped the Arab world, one could have heard a proverbial pin drop. It is conditioned as well by the fact that Egypt is the large…
Kafāʾa fī l-Nasab in Saudi Arabia
Lineal compatibility in marriage (kafāʾa fī l-nasab) is a contentious subject in contemporary Saudi Arabia. This paper discusses the controversial legal case of Mans ̇ūr al-Taymānī and his wife Fāt ̇ima al-ʿAzzāz, a married couple who were divorced against their will by a Saudi judge because of complaints by the bride’s half-brothers about the groom’s tribal lineage. The Islamic legal discourse on lineal compatibility as applied to Saudi Arabia i…
Dynamics of Internet Use
Internet bulletin boards provide an important window into public discourse in relatively restrictive societies like Saudi Arabia. Examining the discourse on two Saudi Internet bulletin boards, one representing a Najdi tribe, the other a Shi'ite community in eastern Saudi Arabia, it is possible to observe the complex and often competing ends toward which new media in the Middle East are used. The bulletin board of the Najdi and Qahtan tribe reveal…
Kafāʾa fī l-Nasab in Saudi Arabia
Lineal compatibility in marriage (kafāʾa fī l-nasab) is a contentious subject in contemporary Saudi Arabia. This paper discusses the controversial legal case of Mans ̇ūr al-Taymānī and his wife Fāt ̇ima al-ʿAzzāz, a married couple who were divorced against their will by a Saudi judge because of complaints by the bride’s half-brothers about the groom’s tribal lineage. The Islamic legal discourse on lineal compatibility as applied to Saudi Arabia i…
Dynamics of Internet Use
Internet bulletin boards provide an important window into public discourse in relatively restrictive societies like Saudi Arabia. Examining the discourse on two Saudi Internet bulletin boards, one representing a Najdi tribe, the other a Shi'ite community in eastern Saudi Arabia, it is possible to observe the complex and often competing ends toward which new media in the Middle East are used. The bulletin board of the Najdi and Qahtan tribe reveal…
Situating Tribes in History
The tribe presents a problem for the historian of the modern Middle East, particularly one interested in personalities, subtleties of culture and society, and other such “useless” things. By and large, tribes did not leave their own written records. The tribal author is a phenomenon of the present or the recent past. There are few twentieth century tribal figures comparable to the urban personalities to whose writings and influence we owe our und…
Daʿwa, Dynasty, and Destiny in the Arab Gulf
This article considers the question of collective identity formation in the Arab Gulf by looking at the distinctive ways in which the genealogies of the dominant kinship collective of the United Arab Emirates, the Banī Yās confederation, have been represented by that country's cultural and heritage-making institutions. I look comparatively at two high profile, state-sponsored, Emirati genealogical projects, one a site, and the other a text, and i…
Our Ancestors, Our Heroes
Scholars of Arab media have explored key aspects of Gulf-Levant media integration in the wake of the privatisation of Arab media over the past several decades. Their studies tend to characterise the controversies that arise from this integration in terms of the relative influence of Islamist or religious values on producers and consumers. Yet behind these Gulf-Levant tensions, this article will argue, there is also a different cultural logic at w…
Dynamics of Internet Use
Internet bulletin boards provide an important window into public discourse in relatively restrictive societies like Saudi Arabia. Examining the discourse on two Saudi Internet bulletin boards, one representing a Najdi tribe, the other a Shi'ite community in eastern Saudi Arabia, it is possible to observe the complex and often competing ends toward which new media in the Middle East are used. The bulletin board of the Najdi and Qahtan tribe reveal…
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the Social Media Moment
In this paper, I reflect on the relationship between social media and the Arab uprisings of 2011, contrasting the Egyptian experience with that of Saudi Arabia. My argument is conditioned by the fact that I observed the uprising in Egypt from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a city in which, throughout the year of revolt that has gripped the Arab world, one could have heard a proverbial pin drop. It is conditioned as well by the fact that Egypt is the large…
Kafāʾa fī l-Nasab in Saudi Arabia
Lineal compatibility in marriage (kafāʾa fī l-nasab) is a contentious subject in contemporary Saudi Arabia. This paper discusses the controversial legal case of Mans ̇ūr al-Taymānī and his wife Fāt ̇ima al-ʿAzzāz, a married couple who were divorced against their will by a Saudi judge because of complaints by the bride’s half-brothers about the groom’s tribal lineage. The Islamic legal discourse on lineal compatibility as applied to Saudi Arabia i…
Our Ancestors, Our Heroes
Scholars of Arab media have explored key aspects of Gulf-Levant media integration in the wake of the privatisation of Arab media over the past several decades. Their studies tend to characterise the controversies that arise from this integration in terms of the relative influence of Islamist or religious values on producers and consumers. Yet behind these Gulf-Levant tensions, this article will argue, there is also a different cultural logic at w…
Of Sand or Soil
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? This book 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 …
Of Sand or Soil
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 o…
Daʿwa, Dynasty, and Destiny in the Arab Gulf
This article considers the question of collective identity formation in the Arab Gulf by looking at the distinctive ways in which the genealogies of the dominant kinship collective of the United Arab Emirates, the Banī Yās confederation, have been represented by that country's cultural and heritage-making institutions. I look comparatively at two high profile, state-sponsored, Emirati genealogical projects, one a site, and the other a text, and i…
Saudi Clerics and Shiʿa Islam
In January 2016 the deputy crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Muhammad bin Salman, was asked by the Economist magazine about the prospect for young women's emancipation from the kingdom's system of male guardianship. Having boasted earlier of his profound control over most aspects of the kingdom's economy, defense, and foreign policy, Ibn Salman seemed here to throw up his hands: “This has its own social criteria and religious criteria. Some of them a…
Interpreting the Oil Kingdom
It is telling that Cambridge University Press commissioned two anthropologists to write its histories of modern Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Having escaped the experience of direct colonial rule, these countries do not fit comfortably into the dominant model of modern Middle Eastern history. It follows that the template for modern Saudi statehood cannot be retrieved from the colonial archives, or the postcolonial corporate ones, for that matter. Inste…
Laila Parsons. The Commander
This is not a history of victors. Fawzi al-Qawuqji (d. 1976), “itinerant anticolonial rebel” (80) of the late Ottoman and colonial Middle East, was born into a lower-middle-class Ottoman military family in Tripoli, Lebanon, and buried in an undistinguished grave there. Laila Parsons’s thoughtful and empathic study of Qawuqji’s professional life gives us much to consider about that iconic “transnational fighter” (250) of the colonial Arab world, n…
Saudi Primary Education and the Formation of Modern Wahhabism
The development of modern primary education in Saudi Arabia transformed Wahhabism in subtle yet significant ways. The art of instructing six- and seven-year-old children in the finer points of Wahhābī theology and law, as occurred in the new Saudi primary schools from 1929, may appear as the authentic continuation of a tradition within a modern institutional framework. Yet in point of fact, this foregrounding of theology constituted a departure f…
Situating Tribes in History
The tribe presents a problem for the historian of the modern Middle East, particularly one interested in personalities, subtleties of culture and society, and other such “useless” things. By and large, tribes did not leave their own written records. The tribal author is a phenomenon of the present or the recent past. There are few twentieth century tribal figures comparable to the urban personalities to whose writings and influence we owe our und…
Poetry, Magic, and the Formation of Wahhabism
The Sunni revivalist Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (d. 1792) has been subjected to rigorous scrutiny by a number of scholars. Much remains unknown about Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb’s life and work, however, not least the rationale behind his idiosyncratic style of authorship. Examining the scholar’s theological writings from the vantage point of Arabia’s oral vernacular and popular religious traditions casts new light on the particularities of Ibn ʿAbd al-W…
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