Notes on the Bedouins and Wahábys

John Lewis Burckhardt

H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830 - Arabian Peninsula - 439 pages

Contents

• Classification of Bedouin Tribes that inhabit the Syrian Desert: 1
• Sketches Mode of Encamping: 18
• Furniture of the Tent and various Utensils: 24
• Arms of the Bedouins: 30
• Arts and Industry Arts and Industry: 37
• Feasts and Rejoicings: 47
• Education: 56
• Government and Mode of Judicature: 66
• Warfare and Predatory Excursions: 76
• BloodRevenge or Thár: 84
• Hospitality of the Arabs: 100
• Cattle of the Bedouins and other Animals of the Desert: 110
• Vegetation of the Desert: 126
• Arms: 134
• The Cameldrivers Song: 141
• Feasts and Rejoicings: 147
• Divorces of the Bedouins: 154
• Religious Worship: 160
• BloodRevenge: 177
• Robbery and Thieving: 184
• Domestic Relations: 199
• General Character of the Bedouins: 209
• Additions to the Classification of Tribes: 217
• Horses of Arabia: 246
• Introduction: 273
• Of Saouds person and family: 287
• Wahaby Government: 293
• Revenues: 304
• Military Affairs of the Wahabys: 311
• Ghaleb Sherif of Mekka and the Turkish Pasha of Baghdad at war with: 321
• Mohammed Aly Pasha of Cairo despatches his son Tousoun Pasha with: 342
• Mohammed Aly Pasha proceeds from Egypt with an army of TurksArrives: 358
• The Begoum Arabs headed by a woman regarded as a sorceress by the Turks: 371
• Distribution of the Turkish forces in HedjazMassacre at BahraMohammed: 383
• Turks elated with victorytheir crueltytheir distresses on the march from: 401
• Abdallah Ibn Saoud enters Kasym with an armyNegotiations between: 412
• Index of Arabic words: 433

Bibliographic information

• Title: Notes on the Bedouins and Wahábys; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature
• Author: John Lewis Burckhardt
• Translated by: John Lewis Burckhardt
• Publisher: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Mar 3, 2009
• Length: 439 pages