ISBN: 9781850437109

She attended secondary school at the renowned Château Mont-Choisi in Lausanne, Switzerland, from 1967 to 1975. She received her bachelor's degree summa cum laude (with highest honours) fr… Mehr…

She attended secondary school at the renowned Château Mont-Choisi in Lausanne, Switzerland, from 1967 to 1975. She received her bachelor's degree summa cum laude (with highest honours) from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania; and subsequently attended. Cradle of Islam: The Hijaz and the Quest for an Arabian Identity by Mai Yamani, ISBN 1850437106Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author on the front free end paper thus: "To Carl Muller With best wishes Mai Yamani"; I. B. Tauris 2004 1st ed, 226pp., text sound albeit with a hint of browning to page edges & tiny creases to the bottom corners of a handful of pages, small crease just below inscription & to the following three pages, spine just the slightest bit cocked & front board very slightly warped, slight bumping & rubbing to the base of the spine - heavier to the top, rear board has one small, circular indentation (as does the dust jacket), in addition the jacket has some shelf wear including some scratches on the rear.In 1932, the Al Saud family officially incorporated the Kingdom of the Hijaz into the new Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Hijazis became a people without a country of their own. Cradle of Islam focuses on contemporary Hijazi life and culture made subservient to the dominant national rules of Saudi Arabia, as dictated by a political and religious elite rooted in the central Najd region of the country. But centralization was not enough to assimilate or tame Saudi Arabia's distinct regional cultures. The Al Saud family could rule but not fully integrate. This book is an insider's account of the hidden world of the Hijazis including their rituals which have helped to preserve Hijazi identity until now.Mai Yamani (born 6 September 1956) is an independent Saudi scholar, author and anthropologist. Yamani was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1956 to an Iraqi mother from Mosul and a Saudi Arabian father from Mecca. Her paternal grandfathers came from Yemen, hence the surname Yamani ("from Yemen"). Her early education included schooling in Baghdad, Iraq and Mecca, Saudi Arabia. She attended secondary school at the renowned Château Mont-Choisi in Lausanne, Switzerland, from 1967 to 1975. She received her bachelor's degree summa cum laude (with highest honours) from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania; and subsequently attendedSomerville College, University of Oxford, where she was the first Yemeni woman to obtain a M.St. and a D.Phil. from Oxford, in socialanthropology. She started her career as a university lecturer in Saudi Arabia, and became a scholar at leading international think tanks in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East. She has been a research fellow at the Royal Institute for International Affairs in London; a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC; and a visiting scholar at Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. She speaks fluent Arabic, English, French and Spanish, and has a working knowledge of Persian, Hebrew and Italian.Will ship by Royal Mail 1st Class Signed for, well packaged.(£5.55/mil), Gut, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], Bestes Angebot, [LT: BestOffer], Personalised: Yes, Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom, Subject Area: Saudi Arabia, Islam, Middle East, Ethnic Groups, The Hijazis, Features: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Inscribed, Signed, Publication Year: 2004, Type: Textbook, Format: Hardcover, Language: English, Publication Name: Cradle of Islam: the Hijaz and the Quest for an Arabian Identity, Item Height: 234mm, Item Width: 156mm, Subject: History, Number of Pages: 224 Pages, Bloomsbury Publishing<