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Bedouin of Northern Arabia

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Traditions of the Āl-Ḍhafīr

Bedouin of Northern Arabia

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Traditions of the Āl-Ḍhafīr
ByBruce Ingham
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1986
eBook Published 5 April 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315641010
Pages 162
eBook ISBN 9781315641010
Subjects Area Studies, Humanities, Politics & International Relations
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Ingham, B. (1986). Bedouin of Northern Arabia: Traditions of the Āl-Ḍhafīr (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315641010

ABSTRACT

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’.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|21 pages

The history of the Āl Ḍhafīr

chapter 2|12 pages

The traditional dīra of the Āl Ḍhafīr

chapter 3|9 pages

The structure of the Ḍhafīr tribal confederation

chapter 4|8 pages

The present situation of the tribe

chapter 5|44 pages

Texts with translations and explanatory notes

chapter 6|13 pages

Linguistic characteristics of the Ḍhafīr dialect

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