The Kababish Arabs: Power, authority and consent in a nomadic tribe

by Talal Asad

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Genres: Anthropology

263 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1970

About the author

Talal Asad (born 1932) is an anthropologist at the City University of New York.

Asad has made important theoretical contributions to Post-Colonialism, Christianity, Islam, and Ritual studies and has recently called for, and initiated, an anthropology of Secularism. Using a genealogical method developed by Friedrich Nietzsche and made prominent by Michel Foucault, Asad "complicates terms of comparison that many anthropologists, theologians, philosophers, and political scientists receive as the unexamined background of thinking, judgment, and action as such. By doing so, he creates clearings, opening new possibilities for communication, connection, and creative invention where opposition or studied indifference prevailed."

Reviews

[Burhan]

This book is like taking a ride on a time machine, it lets you observe up close the cultural practices of pre-modern nomadic Muslim Arabs. I would recommend reading it for students of Islamic Studies as it will help bolster their understanding of the lived realities from which Islam emerged. Hopefully, reading this book will allow you to better contextualize in your mind what you study.