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Qatar: 1920 to Present: Middle East

By Nassef Manabilang Adiong

Book information

Publisher
Inc, Sage Publications
Year
2012
ISBN
141298176X, 9781412981767
DOI
10.4135/9781452218458.n170
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
63 kB (64006 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
I334-I335\4
Time added
2014-03-08 17:23:23

Description

The State of Qatar is a small peninsula situated in the Persian Gulf and located west of Saudi Arabia, northeast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), southeast of Kuwait and Iraq, and southwest of Iran. It is an emirate (a territory ruled by an emir, who is the head of a royal family) with a mix of sharia (Islamic law) and a civil code of law comprising the constitution. It has been ruled by the Al-Thani family since 1916, based on the signing of an agreement with the British Empire establishing Qatar as one of its protectorates in the Middle East. Qatar gained independence in 1971 after it considered joining a federation with Bahrain and UAE (seven former Trucial States), a federation that failed to materialize. The emir and many of the cabinet of ministers, as well as other high-ranking officials, are members of the Al-Thani family and are overwhelmingly ...

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