Hadhramaut and its Diaspora by Noel Brehony

Hadhramaut and its Diaspora by Noel Brehony

The Hadhramis of Yemen have migrated for centuries in large numbers, establishing a diaspora that extends around the Indian Ocean, Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf States. This migration has deeply affected the host countries as well as Hadhramaut itself. Yet the region has not been able to use its population size, capabilities or resources to wield significant political influence in successive Yemeni regimes. This book examines the people of the Hadhrami diaspora, who travelled as religious scholars, traders, labourers and soldiers, to understand their enduring influence and identity. In doing so, the book explores key aspects of their history, including the impact of Yemeni nationalist movements, the significance of land reforms, the importance of social and tribal origins and how the Hadhrami resisted European domination as a Muslim community. Although a distinctive part of geographical Yemen, Hadhramaut was not regarded as a Yemeni political entity until the twentieth century.This research asks if the recent turmoil in Yemen following the Arab Spring, the growth of Al-Qa'ida and ISIS, and war involving a coalition led by Saudi Arabia, will produce even greater instability in the region or perhaps lead to a united Yemen, a restored South Yemen or even to Hadhramaut as an independent state.

Noel Brehony is currently Chairman of the British Yemeni Society and the Anglo-Jordanian Society. He has also been Chairman of the Middle East Association and the Council for British Research in the Levant and President of the British Society of Middle East Studies. Brehony had a career as a diplomat after completing a PhD from Durham and post doctoral research in the Middle East. He was in Aden in the early years of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and followed events there until unity in 1990. Brehony is the author of Yemen Divided: the Story of a Failed State in South Arabia and co-editor of British-Egyptian Relations from Suez to the Present Day. He is on the Advisory Board of the London Middle East Institute at SOAS.

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ISBN 13	9781784538682
ISBN 10	178453868X
Title	Hadhramaut and its Diaspora
Author	Noel Brehony
Series	Library Of Modern Middle East Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2017-03-21
Number of pages	288
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