Area Handbook for the Persian Gulf StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - 448 Seiten An attempt to provide a comprehensive study of the dominant aspects of the five societies of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates and to identify patterns of behavior characteristic of their people. |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abd Allah Abu Dhabi affairs agriculture Ahmad amirates armed forces Bahrain banks Britain British budget capital century commercial concession Constitution construction countries country's crude oil defense Dhofar discovery of oil Dubai economic established expatriates expenditures exports facilities federal fishing foreign Ibadi imam important included increased interior International investment Iran Iraq Islam Khalifah Kuwait late major ment Middle East military million barrels Ministry modern Muhammad Muscat Muslim National Nizwa officers offshore oil companies Oil Industry oil revenues Omani OPEC operations Organization Peninsula percent Persian Gulf petroleum plant political population port production programs projects Qaboos Qatar Qawasim Ras al Khaymah ruler Sabah Salalah Saudi Arabia sector sharia Sharjah Shaykh shaykhdoms social sources Sultan Supreme Council Thani tion tons trade traditional tribal tribes United Arab Emirates Wahhabi Yemen Zayid
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Seite 18 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, • — which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus, and of Ind ; Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings Barbaric pearl and gold...
Seite iii - This volume is one of a series of handbooks prepared by Foreign Area Studies (FAS) of The American University, designed to be useful to military and other personnel who need a convenient compilation of basic facts about the social, economic, political, and military institutions and practices of various countries. The emphasis is on objective description of the nation's present society and the kinds of possible or probable changes that might be expected in the future.
Seite 369 - The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), also known as the World Bank, officially came into existence on December 27, 1945.
Seite 429 - Turkey. barrels per day — Production of crude oil and petroleum products is frequently measured in barrels per day, often abbreviated bpd or bd. A barrel is a volume measure of forty-two United States gallons. Conversion of barrels to tons depends on the density of the specific product. About 7.3 barrels of average crude oil weigh one ton.
Seite 42 - There is no god but God (Allah), and Muhammad is his Prophet." This simple profession of faith is repeated on many ritual occasions, and recital in full and unquestioning sincerity designates one a Muslim.
Seite 43 - In addition to specific duties, Islam imposes a code of ethical conduct encouraging generosity, fairness, honesty, and respect and forbidding adultery, gambling, usury, and the consumption of carrion, blood, pork, and alcohol. A Muslim stands in a personal relationship to God; there is neither intermediary nor clergy in orthodox Islam. Those...
Seite vi - Quran, and shaykh — the authors followed a modified version of the system adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names and the Permanent Committee on Geographic Names for British Official Use, known as the BGN/PCGN system; the modification entails the omission of all diacritical markings and hyphens.
Seite 41 - Muslim calendar, based on the lunar year, begins in 622. In Medina Muhammad continued to preach, eventually defeated his detractors in battle, and consolidated both the temporal and the spiritual leadership of all Arabia in his person before his death in 632.
Seite 62 - Sa'ud in Saudi Arabia. The state's 1989 GDP was $5.4 billion, for an amazing per capita income of over $17,000. United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a federation of seven shaykhdoms: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah (al-Shariqa), Ra's al-Khayma, Fujayra, 'Um al-Qaywayn, and c Ajman.
Seite 42 - The believer is to pray in a prescribed manner after purification through ritual ablutions each day at dawn, midday, midafternoon, sunset, and nightfall. Prescribed genuflections and prostrations accompany the prayers, which the worshiper recites facing toward Mecca. Whenever possible men pray in congregation at the mosque (from masjid, place of prostration) under a prayer leader and on Fridays are obliged to do so.