The Wahhabi tribe : an analysis authority in the unification of the arabian peninsula, 1902-1932
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Abstract
The declaration of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932 marked the end of a fbirty-year process to unify the peninsula.Under the authority of Ibn Saud, the conquest movement which began in 1902 came to control most of current Saudi Arabia by 1932.Throughout this period, Ibn Saud used the legitimacy he gained from the historical association of his family with the Wahhabi movement to help solidify his political authority.However, in order to properly understand how this occurred, Ibn Saud's conquest movement and the effects of the Wahhabi ideology more generally need to be contextualized in terms of tribal political norms and practices.Thus, rather than providing a historical narrative for the period under review, the focus here will be on the construction of Ibn Saud's political authority, using two conceptual tools.First, what role was played by his leadership over, and embodiment of, the Wahhabi movement in the creation of his political authority, and second, how did the tribal political context facilitate such a process.invaluable over the course of my time at McGill.First to the staff of the Islamic Studies Library, in particular Salwa Ferahian, whose willingness to track down any books I requested was greatly appreciated.I thank you.To the staff and faculty of the Institute of Islamic Studies thanks goes to all those who helped me in one or another over the last two years.Specific mention should be made of Ann Yaxley and Dawn Richard whose patience in dealing with my questions made this task so much more pleasant to complete.Finally, I would like to thank my advisor, Professor Uner Turgay, who has guided me throughout my studies, for encouraging me when I needed encouragement and challenging me when I needed challenging.You always found time in your busy schedule to meet and discuss different aspects of my thesis.Again, thank you.Thanks in such a project must also be extended to my family, without whose help I would never have made it this far.To my Mother and Barrie, thank you for your continuing support through the ups and downs of my educational experience.To Dave and Ninette
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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