Transnational Connections and the Arab Gulf

Madawi Al-Rasheed is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at King's College, University of London.

• Introduction: Localizing the Transnational and Transnationalizing the Local Part 1: Historical Reflections on Gulf Transnationalism 1. An Anational Society; Eastern Arabia in the Ottoman Period 2. Mapping the Transnational Community: Persians and the space of the city in Bahrain c. 1869-1937 3. Transnational Merchants in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf: The case of the Safar family Part 2: Global and Local Networks 4. Dubai; Global city and transnational hub 5. The Emergence of a Pan-Arab Market in Modern Media Industries 6. Indonesians in Saudi Arabia: Religious and economic connections Part 3: Beyond the Arab Gulf 7. Saudi Religious Transnationalism in London 8. Wahhabism in the United Kingdom: Manifestations and reactions