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'Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabys Collected During his Travels in the East, by the Late John Lewis Burckhardt' [‎6v] (31/470)

The record is made up of 1 volume (439 pages). It was created in 1830. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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CLASSIFICATION OF
camel-riders; a number rather over than under rated. The whole
northern Aeneze nation may he estimated at from three hundred
to three hundred and fifty thousand souls, spread over a country
of at least forty thousand square miles.
Ahl el Shemdl.
The Arabs so called, or the “ Northern Nations,” are those
tribes who encamp during the whole year among the villages of
Eastern Syria, partly in the once cultivated desert from Hauran
towards Palmyra northward as far as Sokhne, a village five days
from Aleppo on the Baghdad road. They inhabit the Ardh el
Shemdl or northern tract, while the Kebly and Nedjd Arabs gene
rally reside in the more southern plains of Arabia. They never
venture to the great Eastern desert. In proportion to their tents
they have more horses, but fewer camels, than the Aenezes. Be
ginning from the north we may reckon,
1. The tribe of el Maualy, near Aleppo and Hamah: their
emir or sheikh receives an annual sum from the governor of
Aleppo, for which he protects the villages of the Pashalik against
the other Arab tribes. They have about four hundred horsemen ;
they are reckoned treacherous and faithless. The father of their
present chief, Mohammed el Khorfan, (whom Volney represents
as a chieftain of thirty thousand horsemen, a number exceeding the
amount of Arab cavalry between Syria and Baghdad,) treacherously
murdered in his own tents, at a convivial feast, above two hundred
Aeneze guests, that he might get possession of their mares. Of
Maualy extraction, but now independent of them, are el Turky, el
Djemdjeme, el Akeyddt. The smaller tribes of el Hadheyfa and
el Medaheish generally follow the Maualys, though not descended
from them. Part of the Akeyddt have become peasants, and culti
vate the land about Deir, the ancient Thapsacus, on the Euphrates;

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Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabys Collected During his Travels in the East, by the Late John Lewis Burckhardt. Edited by Sir William Ouseley.

Publication details: London: Henry Coburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. 1830. Published by Authority of the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior of Africa.

Physical description: Quarto.

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1 volume (439 pages)
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This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headlines and page references.

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Dimensions: 280mm x 220mm

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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