TY - JOUR
T1 - Alliances among the Arabs
AU - Landau-Tasseron, Ella
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Arabian society of pre-Islamic and early Islamic times consisted of units whose members shared certain legal responsibilities. They may be called co-liable groups. Originally the boundaries of any given co-liable group matched those of a certain descent group (that is, a group consisting of agnatically related males). However, the boundaries of all the groups were constantly shifting, due to segmentation on the one hand, and alliances on the other. Three types of alliances may be discerned. The paper discusses one of them in detail, using the term "hosting alliance" to designate it. This type of alliance amounted to inte-grating outsiders into co-liable groups.
AB - Arabian society of pre-Islamic and early Islamic times consisted of units whose members shared certain legal responsibilities. They may be called co-liable groups. Originally the boundaries of any given co-liable group matched those of a certain descent group (that is, a group consisting of agnatically related males). However, the boundaries of all the groups were constantly shifting, due to segmentation on the one hand, and alliances on the other. Three types of alliances may be discerned. The paper discusses one of them in detail, using the term "hosting alliance" to designate it. This type of alliance amounted to inte-grating outsiders into co-liable groups.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=66949166407&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3989/alqantara.2005.v26.i1.120
DO - 10.3989/alqantara.2005.v26.i1.120
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AN - SCOPUS:66949166407
SN - 0211-3589
VL - 26
SP - 141
EP - 173
JO - Al-Qantara
JF - Al-Qantara
IS - 1
ER -