Falaj Communities in Oman: A Case for Local Governance?: Ibāḍī Legal Rulings and Spatial and Ethnohistorical Observations
Contenu
- Titre
- Falaj Communities in Oman: A Case for Local Governance?: Ibāḍī Legal Rulings and Spatial and Ethnohistorical Observations
- Créateur
- Bandyopadhyay, Soumyen Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
- Mershen, Birgit Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
- Date
- 2022
- Dans
- Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
- Résumé
- This contribution studies the complex arrangement of legal, socio-economic, and technical aspects of the aflāj (s. falaj) water distribution and irrigation system, and how they have shaped communities and built environments in Oman, where the falaj has provided the virtual lifeline of oasis life since the first millennium BCE. Three case studies of falaj communities are presented, Birkat al-Mawz, al-Ḥamrāʾ, and Misfāt al-ʿAbrīyin, which developed during the prosperous early-Yaʿrubi period in the mid-eleventh/seventeenth century. It investigates the extent to which the Ibāḍī-Islamic legal framework allowed flexibility for the local governance, management, and organisation of this ancient system, and its adaptation to diverse demographic, environmental, and emergent socio-political conditions.
- Langue
- eng
- volume
- 3
- numéro
- 1
- pages
- 6-47
- doi
- 10.1163/26666286-12340028
- issn
- 2666-6278, 2666-6286
- Titre abrégé
- Falaj Communities in Oman
Bandyopadhyay, Soumyen et Mershen, Birgit, “Falaj Communities in Oman: A Case for Local Governance?: Ibāḍī Legal Rulings and Spatial and Ethnohistorical Observations”, 2022, bibliographie, consulté le 18 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/14896
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