Author(s): Fred Halliday
Publisher: Penguin Books
Year: 1979
Language: English
Pages: 542
Author's Preface......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Contents......Page 10
Part One Peninsular Politics......Page 16
Introduction The Revolutionary Movement in Arabia......Page 18
1. Society and History in the Arabian Peninsula......Page 34
2. Saudi Arabia: Bonanza and Repression......Page 48
Part Two North Yemen......Page 80
3. The Imamate and Its Contradictions......Page 82
4. Civil War and Counter-Revolution......Page 102
5. The Counter-Revolutionary State......Page 132
Part Three South Yemen......Page 152
6. South Yemen Under British Rule......Page 154
7. The Liberation Movement 1953-67......Page 179
8. The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen......Page 228
Part Four Oman......Page 264
9. The Sultanate of Oman - A British Colony......Page 266
10. Guerrilla War in Dhofar......Page 313
11. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arab Gulf......Page 370
Photos......Page 274
Part Five The Gulf......Page 402
12. Oil and Exploitation......Page 404
13. The Smaller States of the Gulf......Page 436
14. Iran......Page 475
Part Six Conclusion......Page 504
15. Imperialist Strategy and Gulf Revolution......Page 506
Appendix One Abbreviations......Page 522
Appendix Two Basic Data on Peninsular and Gulf States......Page 524
Appendix Three......Page 526
Postscript......Page 528
The Reading Generation [A note in Sindhi]......Page 539
