Atlas of the Gulf states /
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| Author / Creator: | Cadène, Philippe, author. |
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| Imprint: | Boston : Brill, 2013. ©2013 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (v, 120 pages) : color maps |
| Language: | English |
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| Cartographic data: | Scales differ. |
| Format: | E-Resource Map |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11209714 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction 1
- The gulf: a strategic space between the sea and the desert
- A semi-enclosed sea 6 an area of continual movement 8 the crossroads of civilizations 10 a muslim world 12 characteristic states 14 water scarcity 16 oases and pastoral
- Nomadism 18 marine resources 20
- The gulf: the heart of the world's energy reserves
- Petroleum, a complex sector 24 oil production and reserves 26 gas production and reserves 28 processing and transport of oil and gas 30 numerous tensions 32
- A speedy and radical transformation
- Influx of migrants 36 spectacular urban growth 38 quality infrastructure 40 developing an industrial sector 42 free zones and special economic zones 44 explosion of finance and
- Real estate sectors 46 rise of tourism 48 toward a knowledge society 50 the gulf cooperation council 52
- Dissimilar territories
- The state of kuwait saudi arabia's eastern province the kingdom of bahrain the emirate of qatar the federation of the united arab emirates the emirates of abu dhabi and
- Dubai the emirates of ajman and sharjah the northern emirates north oman the iranian coast of the gulf the iraqi governorate of basra
- Urban societies
- Basra city kuwait city greater dammam the oasis city of al-ahsa manama, an island capital greater doha the island and the city of abu dhabi the coastal conurbation of
- Dubai-sharjah-ajman the al-ain-buraimi oases muscat's capital region sohar and sur: two cities on the gulf of oman the port city of bandar abbas abadan and khorramshahr:
- Oil cities integration of metropolitan areas
- Conclusion bibliographyindex 56 58 60 62 64 66 68 70 72 74 76
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- Introduction
- In the vast expanse of land dominated by muslim countries, it is customary
- To distinguish between the arab world, which stretches from the persian
- Gulf to the atlantic ocean and encompasses countries bordering the red
- Sea and the mediterranean, and the turco-iranian world, which extends
- From the dardanelle straits to the indus river and the western borders of
- China. those who support this view, claim that despite the differences in
- Geographical, linguistic, and political conditions, the turco-iranian world
- Has a unity which stems from the interpenetration of the iranian and
- Turkish civilizations in the course of history. as for the arab world, it is
- Characterized by the principle of unity in diversity. the perennial or
- Seasonal shortage of water, the use of the arabic language, and the
- Presence of oil deposits constitute distinctive common denominators, and
- Paradoxically also the reason for internal differences. the feeling of unity
- Strengthened by memories of a glorious shared past, combined with a
- Common religion and later exalted by the ideology of pan-arabism, is
- Founded on a common written language. at the same time, the diversity
- Asserted by groups and individuals, who believe that belonging to a
- Particular nation, region or locality takes precedence over a transnational
- Arab identity, is also visible in the landscape, social conditions, dress, food
- Habits, dialect, etc. the sense of belonging to the umma, or community of
- Believers, competes with the feeling, among christian minorities, of
- Belonging to the arab world. colonization, followed by independence, led
- To the emergence of a national patriotism so strong that in some countries
- There are now demands that dialectal arabic, which only used to be spoken
- But is now in the process of also being written, be recognized as national
- Languages. ultimately, belonging to a particular tribe or community
- Remains an important reality
- Considering the dialectics between unity in diversity inherent to the
- Geographical approach, arab geographers contrast maghreb (the west) to
- Mashriq(the east), while western geographers divide the arab world into
- Sub-regions with a variable geometry. beyond multiple variants from one
- Author to the other, there is a tendency to distinguish between the
- Maghreb, the countries of nile valley, the horn of africa, the countries of
- The fertile crescent, and the arabian peninsula. like any division, it is not
- A simple recording of facts but the result of an intellectual construction;
- Therefore, it cannot be confined within normative limits because there are
- Peripheral areas and transitional areas. further, it is not permanent
- Because the world is continually changing and the geographer must be
- Cognizant of these changes
- With regard to the today's importance of the middle east in the field of
- Energy, the traditional division of the arab world is no longer pertinent. it
- Means dissociating iraq, one of the major countries of the fertile crescent
- (a term first used at the end of the nineteenth century to describe an area
- Known for archaeological riches and achievements in the history of irriga-
- Tion) from its other oil-rich neighbours, particularly kuwait and saudi
- Arabia situated in the arabian peninsula, which serves as a bridge between
- Africa and asia. its physical demarcation is not difficult, but it presents an
- Internal diversity not to be underestimated. in addition, however true it
- May be, the cleavage between the arab and persian worlds must be
- Discussed. iran is an oil-producing country like its neighbours on the
- Opposite shore of the gulf. we have therefore decided to include in the
- Same group iran and the arab countries bordering the arabo-persian gulf
- I.e., iraq and the countries of the arabian peninsula, with the exception of
- Yemen. including the sultanate of oman among the gulf countries may
- Give rise to debate since it is situated mainly on the gulf of oman and the
- Arabian sea, with some twenty-odd kilo-metres bordering the persian gulf
- But the country's centrepiece, situated in its north, resembles the northern
- Part of the united arab emirates
- The decision to prepare this atlas of the gulf countries was not based on
- The sole consideration that these countries are among the world's major oil
- Exporters. it is also based on an understanding of civilization that does not
- Always stress divisive factors at the cost of those that unite. when
- Geography is considered from the orientalist viewpoint, which has few
- Followers today, thepersian gulf appears as a dividing line between two
- Distinct cultural areas, thesemitic and the indo-european. this
- Interpretation is based on archaeological arguments that have been
- Discredited by the excavations conducted over thepast thirty years and.