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1	Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society more books like this by Janet L Abu-Lughod add to wishlist A beautifully-written--almost poetic--ethnography of the Bedouins in Egypt as well as a study of gender relations through analysis of their oral lyric poetry. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $26.04! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Seven Pillars of Wisdom more books like this by T E Lawrence add to wishlist Although 'continually and bitterly ashamed' that the Arabs had risen in revolt against the Turks as a result of fraudulent British promises of self-rule, Lawrence led them in a triumphant campaign which revolutionized the art of war. "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" recreates epic events with extraordinary vividness. In the words of E. M. Forster, 'Round ... see all copies from $4.09! new only from $5.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Art of Bedouin Jewellery: A Saudi Arabian Profile more books like this by Heather Colyer Ross add to wishlist see all copies from $20.00! new only from $74.23! \| first editions
4	Married to a Bedouin more books like this by Marguerite Van Geldermalsen add to wishlist ' "Where you staying?" the Bedouin asked. "Why you not stay with me tonight - in my cave." He seemed enthusiastic. And we were looking for adventure.' Thus begins Marguerite van Geldermalsen's story of how a New Zealand-born nurse became the wife of Mohammad Abdallah Othman, a Bedouin souvenir-seller of the Manaja(h) tribe, and lived with him - ... see all copies from $10.15! new only from $10.15! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Black Tents of Arabia: My Life Among the Bedouins more books like this by Carl R. Raswan add to wishlist Drawn to the desert by his interest in Arabian horses, Carl Raswan's travels with a tribe of Bedouin nomads--7,000 tents, 35,000 people, and 350,000 camels strong--are rich with adventure. He becomes blood brother to a young chieftain, survives raids, droughts, sandstorms, and more. "This is a really GREAT travel book . . . unwearied zest . . . ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $14.27! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Bleeding of the Stone more books like this by Ibrahim Kuni, May Jayyusi (Translator), Christopher Tingley (Translator) add to wishlist By a Libyan writer, this novel is about a peaceful mountain goatherd whose life is disrupted when tourists discover the area. see all copies from $7.33! new only from $10.08! \| SVS
7	Drinkers of the wind more books like this by Carl R Raswan add to wishlist Originally published in the 1930s. An exciting yet moving true story of a mans life and travels with nomadic Arabs and their world famous Arabian horses. Many illustrations and details of this wonderful breed of horse. Many of the earliest horse books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and ... see all copies from $19.28! new only from $31.49! \| first editions
8	Beduins Gazelle more books like this by Frances Temple add to wishlist The last novel from award-winning author Frances Temple, this companion to "The Ramsay Scallop" is a romantic tale of intrigue, adventure, and true love, set against the backdrop of medieval Arabia. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.56! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Bedouin Jewellery in Saudi Arabia more books like this by Heather Colyer Ross add to wishlist see all copies from $11.04! new only from $99.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Blood disputes among Bedouin and rural Arabs in Israel more books like this by Joseph Ginat add to wishlist see all copies from $8.99! new only from $21.88! \| first editions
11	The Cry of the Dove more books like this by Fadia Faqir add to wishlist "Exquisitely woven."--Leila Aboulela Timely and lyrical, "The Cry of the Dove" is the story of one young woman and an evocative portrait of forbidden love and violated honor in a culture whose reverberations are felt profoundly in our world today. Salma has committed a crime punishable by death in her Bedouin tribe of Hima, Levant: she had sex out ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
12	The Sheik's Safety by Dana Marton add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.44! \| SVS
13	The Bedouin of Cyrenaica: Studies in Personal and Corporate Power more books like this by Emrys L Peters, Jack Goody (Editor), Emanuel Marx (Editor) add to wishlist Emrys Peters studied the Bedouin of Libya for more than thirty years. The handful of articles published during his lifetime were widely admired and are still essential reading for anthropologists. He left further significant papers unpublished at his death, and the editors have drawn on these for half of this collection, which brings together his ... see all copies from $52.83! new only from $52.83! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies more books like this by Andrew Shryock add to wishlist This book explores the transition from oral to written history now taking place in tribal Jordan, a transition that reveals the many ways in which modernity, literate historicity, and national identity are developing in the contemporary Middle East. As traditional Bedouin storytellers and literate historians lead him through a world of hidden ... see all copies from $9.68! new only from $37.91!
15	In the Footsteps of the Camel: A Portrait of the Bedouins of Eastern Saudi Arabia in Mid-Century more books like this by Eleanor Nicholson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
16	Bedouin of Northern Arabia more books like this by Professor Bruce Ingham add to wishlist see all copies from $14.37! new only from $253.37!
17 view cover	Arabia of the Bedouins more books like this by Marcel Kurpershoek, P M Kurpershoek add to wishlist In 1986, Marcel Kurpershoek, a Dutch diplomat, was posted to Saudi Arabia. There, he started exploring the country's vast deserts and hunting in the "Rub 'al-Khali", the Empty Quarter. Three years later, having familiarized himself with the Bedouin dialect and poetry, he set out to do five months of fieldwork among the tribes of central Arabia, ... see all copies from $15.52! new only from $17.87! \| first editions
18 view cover	The last of the Bedu : in search of the myth more books like this by Michael Asher add to wishlist The view of the Arab as a hospitable, honest, wild yet noble camel herder living the simple unfettered life in his black tent has been nurtured so strongly in our own culture that the myth has continued to outshine the reality. Michael Asher first encountered the reality of the Bedu during his work as a teacher in Saudi Arabia - they bore little ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $47.98! \| first editions
19 view cover	The Rwala Bedouin Today more books like this by William Lancaster add to wishlist see all copies from $6.26! new only from $18.97! \| first editions
20	The Ark of the Desert more books like this by Thierry Mauger add to wishlist see all copies from $5.16! new only from $25.47! \| first editions
21	Nomads of the nomads : the Al Murrah Bedouin of the Empty Quarter more books like this by Donald Powell Cole add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $62.07! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Black Tents of Arabia more books like this by Carl R Raswan add to wishlist BLACK TENTS OF ARABIA, by Carl Raswan, has been praised as a love story, as an adventure story, as a travel book, and as an insider's vision of a much-misunderstood people. It is all of those things, and if Raswan had been given a free hand it would also have been a definitive study of the Arabian Horse; but the editors of Little, Brown, and ... see all copies from $20.00! first editions
23 view cover	Honor more books like this by Frank Henderson Stewart add to wishlist This text analyzes the elusive notion of "honour". Drawing on information about Western ideas of honour from sources as diverse as medieval Arthurian romances, Spanish dramas of the 16th and 17th centuries and the writings of German jurists of the 19th and 20th centuries, and comparing the European ideas with the ideas of a non-Western society - ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $15.99! \| SVS
24 view cover	Negev Bedouin and Livestock Rearing: Social, Economic and Political Aspects Social, Economic and Political Aspects more books like this by Aref Abu-Rabia add to wishlist In the past sheep-rearing was the main means of existence for most Bedouin. Today it is developing in a new direction. For some it is as important as ever, for others it has become only a subsidiary source of income and a safeguard against economic instability. This volume looks at the effects social, political and economic change has had upon the ... see all copies from $45.00! new only from $84.77! \| first editions \| SVS
25	The desert Bible; nomadic tribal culture and Old Testament interpretation more books like this by Morris S. Seale add to wishlist see all copies from $2.76! first editions \| SVS

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