Iran, Iraq, and the Arab Gulf States
A decade after the War for Kuwait and two decades after the Iran-Iraq War, the wider Gulf region remains mired in internal, regional and international conflicts. Iran, Iraq, and the Arab Gulf States presents analytical perspectives - including solution-or
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Iran, Iraq, and the Arab Gulf States
Edited by Joseph A. Kechichian
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IRAN, IRAQ, AND THE ARAB GULF STATES
©Joseph A. Kechichian, 2001
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Iran, Iraq, and the Arab Gulf States I edited by Joseph A. Kechichian. p. em. Papers presented at an international conference coordinated and hosted by Gustave E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 3-4 May, 2000. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Persian Gulf Region-Politics and government-Congresses. 2. Persian Gulf Region-Foreign relations-Congresses. I. Kechichian, Joseph A. II. Gustave E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments A Note on Transliteration List . 29. Text of the seventeenth annual National Day speech, 15 November 1987, as reported in the Times of Oman, 19 November 1987, p. 2. 30. For textbooks, see, for example, Sultanate of Oman, Ministry of Education, AI- Tarbiyya alIslamiyya [Islamic Education), 1st intermediate level, 4th ed., Muscat: Ministry of Information, 1985.The 1983 sermons have been collected in a book, Al-Muwahab al-Sunniyya jil-Khutab aljam 'iyya [The Sanctioned Traditional Gift of Friday Sermons), part 1, edited by Ahmad bin Hamad al-Khalili, Muscat: Ministry of Justice, Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, 1983.Later sermons have been issued in monthly booklets. 31. Videotape supplied by the Embassy of the Sultanate of Oman, Washington. For a detailed analysis of this talk and its significance, see Dale E Eickelman, "Identite nationale et discours religieux en Oman," in Gilles Kepel and Yann Richard (eds.), lntellectuels et militants de /'Islam contemporain, Paris: Seuil, 1990, pp. 103--28.Part of this account is a revised version of this earlier analysis. 32. Shaykh Ahmad identified bin Baz's fatwa as number 772, dated 8/3/1407. 33. Ahmed bin Hamed al-Khalili, Who Are the Ibadhis? translated by Ahmed Hamoud al-Maamiry, Zanzibar: Al-Khayira Press, n.d. [1988?)), pp. 23--24.This pamphlet repeats the passages of the videotape almost verbatim. 34. Interview, London, 16 June 198
