Vol. 5 · No. 1 · 2001 · pp. 37-64 (28)

Mohammad Shahbazi

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Introduction

A key question in research on the Middle East, and on Iran in particular, has been the relationship between the state adn its resident tribes, especially nomads, during the past decade. Use of force by state officials to control tribal and nomadic groups is fairly well documented. Less well known are the state's apparatuses for ideological control and the ways that tribal and nomadic people respond to them.