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Bedouin of Northern Arabia - Traditions of the Al-Dhafir (Paperback)
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Bedouin of Northern Arabia - Traditions of the Al-Dhafir (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Society of the Middle East
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This is an absorbing and authentic account, first published in
1986, of the history and traditional way of life of the Al-Dhafir
bedouins of north-eastern Arabia, based on a study of their
traditions, Arabic historical annals and the reports of western
travellers over the past two hundred years. During the early part
of the twentieth century the Al-Dhafir were a major power in the
desert south west of the Euphrates between Samawa and Zubair.
Beginning in the Hijaz in the early 1600s as a confederation of
small tribes under the leadership of the Suwait clan, they have had
an eventful history in which their tribal tradition records battles
with the Sharifs in the Hijaz, the al'Urai'ir in al Hasa, the
Muntafiq in Iraq and finally the Ikhwan raiders in the 1920s. They
are well known for an almost quixotic adherence to the taditions of
hospitality and protection of fugitives for which their sheikhs
became known as the Ahl al-Buwait, 'people of the little tent'.
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