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Tribe, Islam and State in Libya: Analytical Study of the Roots of Libyan Tribal Society and Evolution Up to the Qaramanli Reign (1711–1835). By Faraj Najem. The Centre for Africa Research, Benghazi, 2017. ISBN977-404-002-3, pp. 251, 15 maps, 6 family and tribal genealogical trees, 2 indexes of major Libyan places and major Libyan tribes and families, and an index of Berber/Tefinagh alphabets. Price: $20 (paperback).

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Tribe, Islam and State in Libya: Analytical Study of the Roots of Libyan Tribal Society and Evolution Up to the Qaramanli Reign (1711–1835). By Faraj Najem. The Centre for Africa Research, Benghazi, 2017. ISBN977-404-002-3, pp. 251, 15 maps, 6 family and tribal genealogical trees, 2 indexes of major Libyan places and major Libyan tribes and families, and an index of Berber/Tefinagh alphabets. Price: $20 (paperback).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2018

Frederic Wehrey
Frederic Wehrey*
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Part 4: Book Reviews
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Libyan Studies , Volume 49 , November 2018 , pp. 207 - 209
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References

1 The seminal Italian study is Enrico De Agostini, Le popolazioni della Tripolitania: notizie etniche e storiche [The Population of Tripolitania: Ethnic and Historical Report], Tripoli, 1917.

2 Jeffrey Goldberg, ‘The Obama Doctrine’, The Atlantic, April 2016, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/.

3 Cherstich, Igor, ‘When Tribesmen Do Not Act Tribal: Libyan Tribalism as Ideology (Not as Schizophrenia)’, Middle East Critique 23.4 (2014): 405–21CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 For a representative Libyan author, see al-Tahir Ahmad al-Zawi, Muʾjam al-buldan al-Libiya [Encyclopaedia of Libyan Towns], Al-Nur Publishing House, Tripoli, 1968.