Melle Lyklema is a PhD candidate at the Department for the History of International relations at Utrecht University. His research focuses on the institutional history of da'wa (mission) in Saudi Arabia, 1953-2015.
British efforts to suppress piracy in the Gulf and its treaties with local powerbrokers laid the somewhat haphazard foundations for state formation on the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf.
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The academic aftermath of the ‘Arab Spring’ shows that historians are right to abstain from quick interpretations of sudden events of immediate ‘historical magnitude’. But what exactly were the insidious effects of time pressure on expert knowledge?
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