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Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabys : Collected During His Travels in the East Volume 1. / John Lewis Burckhardt, Edited by William Ouseley.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge books online.
- Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (402 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Contents:
- 1 Classification of Bedouin tribes that inhabit the Syrian desert
- 2 Sketches
- 3 The tent, and its different parts
- 4 Furniture of the tent, and various utensils
- 5 Bedouin dress
- 6 Arms of the Bedouin
- 7 Diet of the Arabs
- 8 Arts and industry
- 9 Wealth and property of the Bedouins
- 10 Sciences, music, and poetry of the Bedouins
- 11 Feasts and rejoicings
- 12 Diseases and cures
- 13 Education
- 14 Religious worship
- 15 Matrimony and divorce
- 16 Government and mode of judicature
- 17 Warfare and predatory excursions
- 18 Blood-revenge, or Thár
- 19 Robbery and theft
- 20 Hospitality of the Arabs
- 21 Slaves and servants
- 22 Moral character of the Bedouins
- 23 Cattle of the Bedouins, and other animals of the desert
- 24 Vegetation of the desert
- 25 Winds
- 26 Additional observations
- 27 Dress of the Bedouins
- 28 Arms
- 29 Food and cookery
- 30 Industry
- 31 The Arabs' wealth
- 32 Sciences, music, poetry, &c.
- 33 The camel-driver's song
- 34 Feasts and rejoicings
- 35 Diseases
- 36 Vaccination
- 37 Customs relative to matrimony
- 38 Divorces of the Bedouins
- 39 Burial of the Bedouins
- 40 Religious worship
- 41 Government
- 42 Warfare of the Bedouins
- 43 Blood-revenge
- 44 Robbery and thieving
- 45 The traitor
- 46 Dakheil, or protection
- 47 Hospitality
- 48 Domestic relations
- 49 General character of the Bedouins
- 50 Salutation
- 51 Language
- 52 Sagacity in tracing of footsteps, or Athr
- 53 General reflections.
- Notes:
- Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Mar 2012).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780511782411
- 9781108022897
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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