Africa and the Gulf Region

Blurred Boundaries and Shifting Ties

Edited by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf Edited by Dale F. Eickelman

Book cover: Africa and the Gulf Region

Extent: 175 pages

Publisher: Gerlach Press

Subjects: Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies, Social Sciences 

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(September 2015)

ISBN: 9783940924704

Price: $117.00

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This book, a collaboration of historians, political scientists, development planners, and a biomedical engineer, explores Arabian-African relationships in their many overlapping dimensions.


The ties that bind Africa and the Gulf region have deep historical roots that influence both what Braudel called the longue duree and the short-term events of current policy shifts, market-based economic fluctuations, and global and local political vicissitudes. This book, a collaboration of historians, political scientists, development planners, and a biomedical engineer, explores Arabian-African relationships in their many overlapping dimensions. Thus histories constructed from the “bottom up” — records of the everyday activities of commerce, intermarriage, and gender roles — offer an incisive complement to the “top down” histories of dynasties and the elite. Topics such as migration, collective memory, scriptural and oral narratives, and contemporary notions of food security and “soft” power pose new questions about the ties that bind Africa to the Gulf.

  • Edited by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
  • Edited by Dale F. Eickelman