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In the Time of Oil In the Time of Oil Piety, Memory, and Social Life in an Omani Town Mandana E. Limbert Stanford University Press Stanford, California Stanford University Press Stanford, California ©2010 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Limbert, Mandana E. In the time of oil : piety, memory, and social life in an Omani town / Mandana E. Limbert. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8047-5626-6 (cloth : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-8047-5627-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Bahla' (Oman)--Social life and customs. 2. Collective memory--Oman--Bahla'. 3. Islam- -Oman--Bahla'. 4. Social change--Oman--Bahla'. 5. Petroleum industry and trade--Social aspects--Oman--Bahla'. I. Title. DS247.4.B32L46 2010 953.53--dc22 201000817 Typeset by Bruce Lundquist in 10/14 Minion Pro For Dorothy Limbert Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Notes on Names and Transliteration xv 1 In the Dreamtime of Oil: Wealth and Development in an Anomalous Time 1 2 Now, the Police Only Drive: Remembering Rule and Disorder in Bahla 19 3 In the Eye of the Neighbor, There is Fire: Hazards and Histories of Sociality 46 4 Circles of Knowledge: Religious Learning, Pious Pasts, and Alternative Sociality 82 5 Senses of Water: Nostalgia, Private Ownership, and Bodily Privacy 115 6 Becoming Bahlawi: Race, Genealogy, and the Politics of Arabness 134 7 Perhaps He Has a Son: Succession, Depletion, and the Uncertain Future 164 Notes 177 Bibliography 215 Index 235 Illustrations 1.1 Map of Oman 5 2.1 Bahla fort 22 2.2 A section of Bahla’s outer wall, as seen from a hill in al-Sifāla; mosque in foreground 28 3.1 Woman walking in Bahla 49 3.2 Auctioning a date palm 75 5.1 Hamad’s zaygra 121
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