ABSTRACT

A MAN'S life in Sinai, for purposes of bloodmoney, isworth forty-one camels, and in the Western Desert it is worth £300, or £400 in some cases. It is not maintained that these amounts accurately represent the actual value of a man's life, as presumably from the tribal standpoint an old man of seventy is not "worth" as much as a man of five-and-twenty. Legislation, however, always has to be made broadly for the majority, and Arab Law only recognises one average price for a man.