Islam, Memory, and Morality in Yemen: Ruling Families in Transition (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Series)
This book tells a story of a Yemeni hereditary elite that was overthrown in the 1962 revolution in North Yemen, after enjoying exclusive rights to the leadership of the Imamate, the religiously sanctioned state for over a millennium. Rather than concentrating on recent political history, this book highlights the personal predicament of those targeted by the revolution. What is their sense of "past" and "self" in a transformed political setting where in some respects the mark of distinction...
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This book deals with elite transformation. It shows how a Muslim nobility, which had held power for centuries, accommodated to republican society following the 1962 revolution in North Yemen.
List of Figures and Illustrations • Acknowledgements • Foreword--Fred Halliday • Glossary • Introduction: Locating Memory: The Politics of Incorporation and Differentiation • Part I: Framings • The House of the Prophet • The Zaydi Elite during the 20th Century Imamate • The Anatomy of Houses • Part II: Growing to be `Alid • Snapshots of Childhood • Performing Kinship • Part III: Self-Fashioning in the Idiom of Tradition • The Politics of Motherhood • Marriage in the Age of Revolution • "Ulama of a Different Kind" • The Moral Economy of Taste • Part IV: Engaging Difference • Defining through Defaming • Memory, Trauma, Self identification • History through the Looking-Glass • Conclusion: Frontiers of Memory • Appendices • Notes • Bibliography • Index
