Yoav Alon. The Shaykh of Shaykhs: Mithqal al-Fayiz and Tribal Leadership in Modern Jordan (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016). Pp. 240. $24.95 paper. ISBN 9780804799324.

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (01) ◽  
pp. 158-160
Author(s):  
Nadav Samin
Keyword(s):  
Stanford University ◽  
Tribal Leadership

The Philological Association of The Pacific Coast

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1373-1374
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
The Pacific

The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast was held at Stanford University, California, on November 29 and 30, 1935.

20-year survivors of heart transplantation at Stanford University

2009 ◽  
Vol 56 (S 01) ◽  
Author(s):  
T Deuse ◽  
F Haddad ◽  
M Pham ◽  
S Hunt ◽  
H Valantine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Transplantation ◽  
Stanford University

The Age of Autonomy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Winter
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Disparities ◽  
Local Autonomy ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Southern Turkey ◽  
Leadership Structure ◽  
Landed Gentry ◽  
Tribal Leadership

This chapter follows the rise to power of the Shamsins, the Bayt al-Shillif, and associated ʻAlawi families as Ottoman tax concessionaries. It shows that their position of local autonomy, rather than having evolved out of some domestic or “tribal” leadership structure, resulted from a paradigm shift in Ottoman provincial administration as well as from a very favorable economic context, in particular the development of commercial tobacco farming in the northern highlands around Latakia. If the eighteenth century witnessed the emergence of a veritable Ottoman–ʻAlawi landed gentry, it also saw increasing social disparities lead to large-scale emigration away from the highlands toward the coastal and inland plains as well as toward the Hatay district of what is today southern Turkey.

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