Tribal culture of the middle east and the solution
Tribal culture of the middle east and the solution Tribes still play a great role in the culture of the middle east, almost everyone uses the tribe's name with their names, especially in the Gulf states. According to Philip carl Salzman, tribes conceptualized as the descendants of a common ancestor on the male line will combine their resources with other closely related relatives against more distant ones, and the whole tribe will then stand together against outsiders. This tribal framework renders it nearly impossible to have a constitution or a regime of law and order, thereby "generating a society where all groups are on an equal basis." Tribal members "are loyal only to their groups." Tribal loyalties are said by one commentator drawing on Salzman’s work to “create a complex pattern of tribal autonomy and tyrannical centralism that obstructs the development of constitutionalism, the rule of law, citizenship, gender equality, and the other prerequisites of ...