Ismail Mohammed Al-Salamat

Researcher in Arab Genealogy and Anthropology

Dr Ismail Mohammed Al-Salamat is a researcher in Arab genealogy and Saudi anthropology at Damascus University. His work covers the study of Arab lineages, methods of documenting them and collating their oral accounts against written and material sources, and the relationship between tribal structure and social and political formation in the Arabian Peninsula. His method combines anthropological tools for reading communities with the historian's tools for source criticism, allowing an understanding of how collective memory is transmitted and transformed across generations.