Abstract

In this study we try to explore the concept of “The history of Libya and it's ruling Tribes” in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on “The history of Libya and it's ruling Tribes” and its relation with “ruling tribe”. The research also analyzes many aspects of “The history of Libya and it's ruling Tribes” and tries to gauge its effect on “ruling tribe”. Finally the research describes various factors which are responsible for “The history of Libya and it's ruling Tribes” History of Libya and its Ruling Tribes

History

The history of Libya in the twentieth century represents, even by Middle Eastern standards, an extraordinary odyssey: from Ottoman backwater to Italian colony; from conservative sovereignty to absolute regime; from rags to riches; and from brinkmanship to a grudging and still unfolding statesmanship. Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, and Fazzan - stood on the sidelines as a succession of foreign and local rulers and interests shaped their environment. Excluded from participation with the colonial machinery during the Italian occupation (1911-1942), marginalized politically during the monarchy (1951-1969), and subject to a homegrown form of socialism after the military coup in 1969, Libyans share a turbulent history of state-building that continues to make them perplexed even today.

Perhaps it is more accurate to say that the people of Libya became witnesses to a political and economic situation that has often been observed in oil exporters throughout the Middle East: the attempt by their rulers, with the aid of vast oil revenues, to avoid the practice of state-building that typically includes the usual expansion of the administrative reach of the state, as well as a growing incorporation of local citizens in that process. Indeed, in Libya even today, it remains difficult to evaluate its people simply as citizens. Despite his rhetoric to the contrary, their current president continues to see them more or less as his personal subjects, and he has done little to help build confidence in the more impersonal institutions of a modern state. To that extent, the Qadhafi command shows a remarkable continuity with the empire that preceded it, and has created a political system that will face significant challenges in the future.

How, and why, Libya's rulers chose to pursue what I refer to in this book as statelessness the avoidance of creating a modern state - forms its intellectual Leitmotiv. In order to address its various dimensions, I propose a total of more fundamental questions that emit light on the political, social, and financial history of modern Libya: about the role of oil in the development of the country, and about the power and legacies of history in the relationships between the local community and its rulers . Simultaneously, I try to discover the impact of Arab nationalism and Islam on Libya's progress, to determine the precise impact of petroleum revenues on social stratification and on site, and to quantify the changing roles of individuals and intuitive loyalties in a friendship that became fast and inexorably incorporated within the global ...