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The Bedouin originated in the Syrian Desert [19] and Arabian Desert but spread across the rest of the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa after the spread of Islam. [20] The English word bedouin comes from the Arabic badawī, which means "desert-dweller", and is traditionally contrasted with ḥāḍir, the term for sedentary people. [21]
The Bedouin have their own authentic and distinct culture, rich oral poetic tradition, honor code and a code of laws. Despite the problem of illiteracy, the Bedouin attribute importance to natural events and ancestral traditions. [141] The Bedouin of Arabia were the first converts to Islam, and it is an important part of their identity today. [9]
The tribe's origins are obscure, but by the 16th century it combined semi-nomadic sheepherders and camel-raising nomads of different origins. At that time, their leading family was the Al Fadl (also called Al Hayar), whose chiefs had been formally recognized as the amir al-arab (commander of the Bedouin ) of the Syrian steppe since the Ayyubid ...
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Along the desert routes, ḥimaya was institutionalized: The Mamluks ensured safe passage for caravans by constructing inns ("khans") [109] – including in the northern Negev [110] – and entrusting the dominant Bedouin tribes with the task of managing these khans and the right to provide caravan ḥimaya.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Not to be confused with Negev Bedouin. Bedouin tribes in the West Bank Palestinian Bedouin [a] (the plural form of Bedouin can be Bedouin or Bedouins) are a nomadic people who have come to form an organic part of the Palestinian people, characterized by a semi- pastoral and agricultural lifestyle ...
The Chaamba (Arabic: الشعانبة, romanized: Sha‘āniba) are an Arab tribe in the northern Sahara of central Algeria.They are a large tribe of Bedouins and live in a large desert territory to the south of the Atlas Mountains, [1] around Metlili, El Golea, Ouargla, El Oued, and the Great Western Erg, including Timimoun and Béni Abbès [2] While traditionally they were nomads specialised ...
Episode 3 of Disney+’s Secret Invasion answered a burning question or two — mainly, regarding Fury’s wife Priscilla. But more notably, the final scene seemed to dispatch with another main ...