Document Type : Research

Author

• یاسر Ghazvini Haeri

Department of History. Tehran university

Abstract

Kuwaiti political sociologist Khaldoun Hassan al-Naqib tries to find out the historical structure of the relationship between society and the state in the countries of the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula, inspired by Fernan Braudel's approach to history. This research aims to introduce and criticize the book of Al-Naqib under the title of Society and Government in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula. At the beginning, Al-Naqib, by addressing the geography of the region, put forward the concept of "natural state of economic life" and based on it, he talks about "the cycle of tribal elites" which shows us the historical structure of developments in the region in the synergy of commercial and tribal approaches. With the advent of colonialism, the natural situation and the cycle of the tribal elites have stopped and the tribal elites allied with the colonists determine the final shape of the countries on the southern shores of the Persian Gulf through successive treaties. After the emergence of oil, the rentier government in these countries transitions to a hegemonic government that has distinctive characteristics. At the end of the introduction of this work, criticisms including determinism, inadequacy of documents and having an ideological point of view have also been made on this work.

Keywords

• Dynamism
• elite cycle
• tribe
• trade
• hegemonic state
• road
• security

Main Subjects

• History