ABSTRACT
Transnational Connections and the Arab Gulf presents a study of transnational cultural flows in the Gulf region and beyond. It combines an understanding of the region's historical connections with the outside world and an assessment of contemporary consequences of these connections.
The contributors collected here analyze and map historical and contemporary manifestations of transnational networks within this region, linking them to wider debates on society, identity and political culture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Historical reflections on Gulf transnationalism
chapter 2|20 pages
Mapping the transnational community: Persians and the space of the city in Bahrain, c.1869–1937
Persians and the space of the city in Bahrain,
chapter 3|32 pages
Transnational merchants in the nineteenth-century Gulf
The case of the Safar family
part |2 pages
Part II Global and local networks
part |2 pages
Part III Beyond the Arab Gulf