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9 unusual facts about Bedouin


Ajume Wingo

Hailing from Nso, a kingdom located in the North West Province of Cameroon, Ajume Wingo received much of his early education from Christian and Muslim missionaries, and from a Bedouin teacher (whose title of Mallam Gargari translates to "invincible teacher") known for his toughness and draconian style of discipline.

Al Aweer

It was a farming village with Bedouin camps until the 1990s, when the city was hugely expanded and when the Emirates Road was established.

Bedoin

Bedouin, a predominantly desert-dwelling Arab ethnic group

Caravan raids

The survival of nomads (or Bedouins) was also partially dependent on raiding caravans or oases; thus they saw this as no crime.

Isabel Burton

Her body and that of her husband lie in the churchyard of St Mary Magdalen's Roman Catholic Church Mortlake in south west London, in an elaborate tomb in the shape of a Bedouin tent which she designed.

Khayr al-Din al-Ramli

It was noted that even the Bedouin of the region who generally disregarded sharia law respected any fatwa issued by him due to cordial relations between them and al-Ramli.

Robert Talbot Kelly

He spent a considerable time with the Bedouin tribes who he described and illustrated in his 1902 book, Egypt Painted and Described (A & C Black).

Seraa Ala El Remal

Seraa Ala El Remal chronicles the lives of around Arab Bedouin in the desert during the early eighteenth century, weaving the fates of different people gathered by love and dispersed by the war, with stories of love and horsemanship, loyalty, betrayal and revenge.

Sirin, Baysan

James Silk Buckingham, who visited the village in the early 19th century, transcribes its name as "Sereen" and describes it as being made up of about thirty to forty houses with half a dozen Bedouin tents located close to it.


ABSL

Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language, used by members of a Bedouin community in the Negev desert of southern Israel

Adwan Rebellion

With the end of the Kura affair, another challenge to Hashemite rule began to loom as the feud between the Banu Sakhr bedouin, led by Mithqal al-Fayez—particularly favored by Emir Abdullah, and the Adwan bedouins of Balqa, headed by Sultan al-Adwan.

Al-Kasom Regional Council

(ret.) Doron Almog was appointed as the head of the staff to implement the plan to provide status for the Bedouin communities in the Negev.

Amarar tribe

Amarar is an African bedouin tribe of the Beja people inhabiting the mountainous country on the west side of the Red Sea from Suakin northwards towards Al-Qusayr.

Andrew Vicari

In the following decades he painted many portraits of the Saudi royal family as well as scenes of Riyadh and Bedouin life.

Battle of Hunayn

The Battle of Hunayn was fought between Muhammad and his followers against the Bedouin tribe of Hawazin and its subsection the Thaqif in 630 in a valley on one of the roads leading from Mecca to al-Ta'if.

Battles of Bir 'Asluj

During the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine, Bir 'Asluj was used as a base of operations for Bedouin paramilitary forces under Hajj Sa'id, mainly against the nearby Jewish village Revivim, a few kilometers to the northwest.

Busra al-Harir

In 1879 fighting flared up between the townspeople and the Druze after the Muslim inhabitants of several nearby villages fled to Busra al-Harir as a result of fighting between the al-Atrash family, a leading Druze clan, and the local Bedouin.

Ernst Friedrich Karl Rosenmüller

Die Sitten der Beduinen-Araber: mit einem biblisch-zoologischen Anhang des Uebersetzers (The customs of Bedouin Arabs, with Biblical-zoological addendum); (source: Laurent d'Arvieux); (1789)

Essenes

Pliny, also a geographer and explorer, located them in the desert near the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in the year 1947 by Muhammed edh-Dhib and Ahmed Mohammed, two Bedouin shepherds of the Ta'amireh tribe.

Gatling gun

The Gatling gun was used most successfully to expand European colonial empires by killing warriors of non-industrialized societies mounting massed attacks, including the Matabele, the Zulu, the Bedouins, and the Mahdists.

Jijel Arabic

Pre-Hilalian Arabic dialects remained intact only in a small area around Jijel while they were heavily mixed with bedouin dialects in the areas of Constantine, Mila, Collo and El Milia.

John Bagot Glubb

The couple had a son, Godfrey (named after the Crusader King Godfrey of Bouillon) born in Jerusalem in 1939, and adopted a Bedouin girl in 1944 and another daughter and son, his daughter from Palestinian refugees and son (named before Atalla) from Jordanian Bedouins in 1947.

Mark Smulian

He worked with musicians of different cultural and political backgrounds and mentored them on western musical perspectives.These musicians were of Druze, Christian, Bedouin, Jewish and Muslim backgrounds.

Mufarrij ibn Daghfal ibn al-Jarrah

On 7 July 981, while the Fatimid army was engaged in besieging Qassam in Damascus, Mufarrij openly rebelled against the Fatimids, and was joined by Bishara, the governor of Tiberias, who joined the bedouin along with many of his men, mostly former Hamdanid soldiers.

This period marked the apogee of the Bedouin power in Palestine: as the contemporary historian Yahya of Antioch writes, the entire interior of the land, "from al-Farama to Tiberias", was under their control, with only the coastal cities resisting the siege attempts, and coin were minted in Abu'l-Futuh's name.

Negev Bedouin

In 2008, a railway station opened near the largest Bedouin town in the Negev, Rahat (Lehavim-Rahat Railway Station), improving the transportation situation.

In August 2012 Doron Almog, head of Israel’s Bedouin Improvement Program Staff, estimated that half a percentage of eligible Bedouins head to the army.

Nomadic pastoralism

It is found in areas of low rainfall such as the Arabian Peninsula inhabited by Bedouins, as well as Northeast Africa inhabited by Somalis (where camel, sheep and goat nomadic pastoralism is especially common).

Oultrejordain

There were very few Christians in Oultrejordain, most of the inhabitants being Shia Bedouin nomads.

Price tag policy

The burning of a mosque at the Bedouin town Tuba-Zangariyye on 3 October 2011 shocked Israelis, as many Bedouins, including those from this village, serve in the Israeli army.

Qasr al Hallabat

Originally a Roman fortress constructed under Emperor Caracalla to protect its inhabitants from Bedouin tribes, this site dates to the second and third century AD, although there is trace evidence of Nabatean presence at the site.

RCUV

Regional Council of Unrecognized Villages, a democratic representative body for the residents of the Bedouin unrecognized villages of the Negev Desert

Rechabite

In 1839 the Reverend Joseph Wolff, who later went to Bokhara to attempt to save Lieutenant Colonel Charles Stoddart and Captain Arthur Conolly, found in Yemen, near Sana'a, a tribe claiming to be descendants of Jehonadab; and in the late nineteenth century a Bedouin tribe was found near the Dead Sea who also professed to be descendants of Jehonadab.

Saudi Arabian art

Saudi Arabian art should be understood in the light of the country being the birthplace of Islam and to include both the arts of Bedouin nomads and those of the sedentary peoples of regions such as the Hejaz, Tihamah, Asir and the Najd.

Simon von Geldern

Subsequently he was chosen by an independent tribe of Bedouins on one of the oases of the North-African desert as their leader or sheikh, and thus became the captain of a band of marauders.

Smetanka

Count Alexey Orlov of Russia obtained many Arabians, including Smetanka, from the nobility of the Ottoman Empire and other sources tracing to the Bedouin of the Arabian peninsula.

Societal collapse

North Africa's populous and flourishing civilization collapsed after exhausting its resources in internal fighting and suffering devastation from the invasion of the Bedouin tribes of Banu Sulaym and Banu Hilal.

The Key to Rebecca

To have it as a mnemonic "key" would have required a different method for the book's climax, either involving a "Bletchley Park" type codebreaker trick (some early "computer" perhaps) or by Vandam pressuring Wolff to reveal it (unlikely, given the obstinate history of the Nazi-Bedouin character).

Thomas Barger

He married Kathleen Elizabeth Ray on November 18, 1937 shortly before heading off to Saudi Arabia by himself for what ended up being three years exploring potential oil sites in the Saudi Arabian desert along with fellow American geologists Max Steineke, Jerry Harriss, Ernie Berg and others as well as a group of Bedouin guides headed by Khamis bin Rimthan of the Ajman tribe.

Tuba-Zangariyye

Populated by the Bedouin tribe of El Heib, Tuba is situated near Kfar Hanassi, overlooking the Jordan River.

Yamit

Golda Meir's government implemented the pre-prepared plan for settlements on this Bedouin territory.

Yellow Asphalt

Here is not there (Tatjana Blacher, Abed Zuabi) - about the doomed love of a German woman and her Bedouin husband

Zirid dynasty

After the loss of Kairouan (1057) the rule of the Zirids was limited to a coastal strip with Mahdia as the capital, while several Bedouin Emirates formed inland.


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