Honour Is in Contentment : : Life Before Oil in Ras Al-Khaimah (UAE) and Some Neighbouring Regions / / William Lancaster, Fidelity Lancaster.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Lancaster, William,; Lancaster, Fidelity,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients : Beihefte zur Zeitschrift “Der Islam” , N.F. 25
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (607 p.) :; 23 Taf./plates
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; 1 Social matters: social infrastructure, premises and practice --; 2 Sea people, ahl al-bahr, and how they lived --; 3 Livelihoods and living on the coastal plains or sayh, and the sands --; 4 Ru'us al-Jibal mountains; livelihoods and living --; 5 The western Hajar mountains; livelihoods and living --; 6 Distribution, trade, investment, credit and debt --; 7 Ruling and Rulers --; 8 'What happened to turn our world upside down?' --; 9 Back to History --; Bibliography --; Index --; List of Figures --; Plates
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110223408; 9783110238570; 9783110635836; 9783110233544; 9783110233551; 9783110233612
• ISSN: 1862-1295
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110223408
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: William Lancaster, Fidelity Lancaster.

Based on interviews and field research, the authors explore the sets of ideas Arab tribespeople from Ras Al-Khaimah had about tribe and community; social and economic networks, and jural contracts for livelihoods and profits; their uses of their environments; the moral relations of credit, debt and labour; ruling; economic and political transformations; and ideas of regional history where conflicts were regarded as disputes over sets of ideas, and informal accounts of tribal and local histories.Their lively descriptions and explanations of life before oil portrayed tribal societies whose relationships were moral rather than political and were between jurally equal persons. All lived from their own resources; 'wealth' was material self-sufficiency; 'riches' the richness of social relationships. Political arenas were decentralised and underpinned by common cultural and moral values.Published sources give a wider context to these ideas and events which show the great complexity and differing perspectives of 'life before oil' in the Gulf.