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.

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

Localizing the transnational and transnationalizing the local

part |2 pages

Part I Historical reflections on Gulf transnationalism

chapter 1|18 pages

An anational society

Eastern Arabia in the Ottoman period

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

chapter 6|19 pages

Indonesians in Saudi Arabia

Religious and economic connections

part |2 pages

Part III Beyond the Arab Gulf

chapter 8|17 pages

Wahhabism in the United Kingdom

Manifestations and reactions