Making of Jordan
Making of Jordan At the beginning of the 20th Century Jordan, like much of the Middle East, was a loose collection of tribes. Drawing on previously untapped sources, Yoav Alon examines how the…
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Making of Jordan
At the beginning of the 20th Century Jordan, like much of the Middle East, was a loose collection of tribes. Drawing on previously untapped sources, Yoav Alon examines how the disparate clan networks of Jordan were integrated into the Hashemite monarchy, with the help of the British colonial administrators. By the time of its independence in 1946 it had the most firmly embedded state structures in the Arab world.
He shows how these institutions co-opted the structures of tribal society, and produced a distinctive hybrid between modern statehood and tribal confederacy which still characterises Jordan to this day. Taking a grassroot perspective, Alon looks at how the weak state institutions introduced by the Ottomans developed in British-administered Jordan. Key figures emerge in the story of Jordan's transformation, such as John Glubb, the charismatic Arab Legion commander who perceived
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