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Tribes and the state in nineteenth- and twentieth- century Iranessay 1990 • Beck, Lois
Iran • Middle East > Middle East
In this article, Beck examines the Iranian tribal organization and its historical relationship to the state. She argues that the tribe and state were interdependent and did not function as two separate, opposing systems. Whereas most of the research ...