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Bedouins

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• Arabs
• North Africans
• Ethnology -- Africa, North
• Nomads -- Africa, North

• Bedouins -- Africa, North
• Bedouins -- Algeria
• Bedouins -- Egypt
• Bedouins -- Euphrates River Valley
• Bedouins -- History
• Bedouins -- Israel
• Bedouins -- Jordan
• Bedouins -- Libya
• Bedouins -- Oman
• Bedouins -- Poetry
• Bedouins -- Saudi Arabia
• Bedouins -- Social life and customs
• Bedouins -- Songs and music
• Bedouins -- United Arab Emirates

• Beduins

• Three Years in the Libyan Desert (1913), by J. C. Ewald Falls, trans. by Elizabeth Lee (multiple formats at TIMEA)
• Seven pillars of wisdom : a triumph (London : Jonathan Cape, 1935., 1935), by T. E. Lawrence, Bruce Rogers, and Harold Mortlake Collection of Sir Winston Churchill (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• With the Beduins; a narrative of journeys and adventures in unfrequented parts of Syria. (T. F. Unwin, 1890), by Gray Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on the Bedouins and Wahábys (H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831), by John Lewis Burckhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le berceau de l'Islam; l'Arabie occidentale à la veille de l'hégire ... (sumptibus Pontificii instituti biblici, 1914), by Henri Lammens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Drei jahre in der Libyschen Wüste. (St. Louis, Mo. [etc.] Herder, 1911), by J. C. Ewald Falls (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Unter Kabylen und Beduinen; wanderungen im Atlasgebiet. (Ullstein, 1927), by C. Arriens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The manners and customs of the Rwala Bedouins (New York, 1928), by Alois Musil (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Lebens der mohammedanischen Städter : fellachen und Beduinen im heutigen Ägypten (C. Winter, 1912), by Friedrich Schwally and Carl Bezold (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Yesterday and to-day in Sinai (Houghton Mifflin company, 1932), by C. S. Jarvis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Altarabisches beduinenleben (Mayer & Müller, 1897), by Georg Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das leben der vorislâmischen Beduinen, nach den quellen geschildert (Mayer & Müller, 1895), by Georg Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
• Altarabisches Beduinenleben. Nach den Quellen geschildert. (Mayer, 1897), by Georg Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on the Bedouins and Wahábys, collected during his travels in the East (H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830), by John Lewis Burckhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• With the Beduins : a narrative of journeys and adventures in unfrequented parts of Syria (T.F. Unwin, 1891), by Gray Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ḳovets mi-kitve Eliyahu Sapir zal. (Hotsẚat Ḥ. "Anglo-Paleśtinah", 1913), by Eliyahu Sapir (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The witness of the wilderness; the Bedawin of the desert, their origin, history, home life, strife, religion, and superstitions, in their relation to the Bible (Longmans, Green, and co., 1909), by G. Robinson Lees (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on the Bedouins and Wahábys (H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830), by John Lewis Burckhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three years in the Libyan Desert, travels, discoveries, and excavations of the Menas expedition (Kaufmann expedition) (T.F. Unwin, 1913), by J. C. Ewald Falls and Elizabeth Lee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bédouins (Ferra Jeune ;, 1816), by F. J. Mayeux, F. Massard, and Raphael (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rambles in the deserts of Syria and among the Turkomans and Bedaweens. (J. Murray, 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beduinennamen aus Zentralarabien (C. Winter, 1912), by Johann Jakob Hess (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Our little friends of the Arabian desert, Adi and Hamda. (American book company, 1934), by Frances Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bedouin tribes of the Euphrates (John Murray, 1879), by Anne Blunt and Wilfred Scawen Blunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les Bédouins de la mouvance de Damas. (Imprimerie du Bureau topographique de l'A.F.L., 1922), by Raoul Raynaud and E. T. Martin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A journal : comprising an account of the loss of the brig Commerce of Hartford (Con.), James Riley, master, upon the western coast of Africa, August 26, 1815 : also of the slavery and sufferings of the author and the rest of the crew upon the desert of Zahara in the years 1815, 1816, 1817 : with accounts of the manners, customs, and habits of the wandering Arabs : also a brief historical and geographical view of the continent of Africa (Judd, Loomis, 1836), by Archibald Robbins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Arabes pasteurs nomades de la tribu des Larbas (région saharienne de l'Algérie) : ouvriers chefs de métier, propriétaires, dans le régime des nomades et dans le système du travail sans engagements, d'aprés les renseignements recueillis sur les lieux, en mars, avril et mai 1885 (Firmin - Didot, 1887), by Auguste Geoffroy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beduinen-Lieder der libyschen Wüste (F. Diemer, Finck & Baylænder, succ., 1908), by J. C. Ewald Falls (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Études sur le folklore bédouin de l'Egypte. (Impr. Nationale, 1911), by Ernst Klippel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of Central and Southern Sinai (Leiden: Brill, 2011), by Rudolf E. de Jong (JSTOR ebook)

• Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1879), by Anne Blunt, ed. by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Bedouin tribes of the Euphrates (J. Murray, 1879), by Anne Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Agnew and Co Bradbury, and John Murray (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Seven Pillars of Wisdom (originally published 1926), by T. E. Lawrence
  • illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• Seven pillars of wisdom : a triumph (London : Jonathan Cape, 1935., 1935), by T. E. Lawrence, Bruce Rogers, and Harold Mortlake Collection of Sir Winston Churchill (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Settling for Less: The Planned Resettlement of Israel's Negev Bedouin (New York: Berghahn Books, 2010), by Steven C. Dinero (JSTOR ebook)

• Khamsat aʻwām fī Sharqī al-Urdun : abḥāth akhlāqīyah, adabīyah, qaḍāʼīyah, dīnīyah (Maṭbaʻat al-Qadīs Būlus, 1929), by Būlus Salmān (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Arabische Beduinenerzählungen. (K.J. Trübner, 1908), by Enno Littmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Bedouins, Wealth, and Change: A Study of Rural Development in the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman (c1980), by Rainer Cordes and Fred Scholz (illustrated HTML at UNU)

• Abriss der Geschichte Israels und Juda's ; Lieder der Hudhailiten, arabisch und deutsch (Georg Reimer, 1884), by Julius Wellhausen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Le berceau de l'Islam : l'Arabie occidentale à la veille de l'Hégire (Sumptibus Pontificii Instituti Biblici, 1914), by Henri Lammens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• ʻAwāʼid al-ʻArab (880-03 Ḥarīṣā, Lubnān : Maṭbaʻat al-Qiddīs Būlus, [1900], 1900), by Būlus Suyūr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Chants des Bédouins de Tripoli et de la Tunisie. (E. Leroux, 1894), by Hans Stumme and Adrien Wagnon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bedouins, Wealth, and Change: A Study of Rural Development in the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman (c1980), by Rainer Cordes and Fred Scholz (illustrated HTML at UNU)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Temperament and Character of the Arabs (New York: Twayne Publishers, c1960), by Sania Hamady (page images at HathiTrust)
• Could the Arabs Stage an Armed Revolt Against the United Nations? Memorandum Submitted to the General Assembly of the United Nations (1947), by Nation Associates (New York, N.Y.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Arab War Effort: A Documented Account (1946), by American Christian Palestine Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revolt in the Desert (New York: G. H. Doran Co., 1927), by T. E. Lawrence
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Le Réveil de la Nation Arabe dans l'Asie Turque (in French; Paris: Plon-Nourrit et cie, ca. 1905), by Najīb 'Āzūrī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seven pillars of wisdom : a triumph (London : Jonathan Cape, 1935., 1935), by T. E. Lawrence, Bruce Rogers, and Harold Mortlake Collection of Sir Winston Churchill (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Revolt in the desert, (George H. Doran Company, 1927), by T. E. Lawrence and Peter K. Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• The women of the Arabs. (Dodd & Mead, 1873), by Henry Harris Jessup, Isaac Riley, and Charles S. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the dominion of the Arabs in Spain (H.G. Bohn, 1854), by José Antonio Conde (page images at HathiTrust)
• A challenge to the Arabs (Pageant Press, 1954), by Mahmoud M. Awad (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Arabs. (Macmillan, 1951), by Philip K. Hitti (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new spirit in Arab lands. (Published privately by the author, 1940), by H. I. Katibah (page images at HathiTrust)
• The truth about Mesopotamia, Palestine & Syria (G. Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1923), by John de Vere Loder Wakehurst (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mémoire sur la conquête de la Syrie (E.J. Brill, 1900), by M. J. de Goeje (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Arab and Druze at home; a record of travel and intercourse with the peoples east of the Jordan (T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1907), by William Ewing (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Arabia petraea (A. Hölder, 1907), by Alois Musil and Kaiserl. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Arab at home. (Thomas Y. Crowell company, 1924), by Paul W. Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire des Arabes. (P. Geuthner, 1912), by Clément Huart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Histoire des Arabes (L. Hachette et Cie, 1854), by L.-A. Sédillot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kings of Arabia; the rise and set of the Turkish sovranty in the Arabian peninsula. (Mills & Boon, limited, 1923), by Harold Fenton Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
• La révolte arabe ... (Colbert, 1924), by Eugène Jung (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Alaeddin and the enchanted lamp; Zein ul Asnam and the King of the Jinn; two stories done into English from the recently discovered Arabic text by John Payne. (London, 1914), by John Payne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Islam und the Arabs. (Longmans, Green, and co., 1876), by Robert Durie Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitāb al-ansāb (Leyden : E.J. Brill, 1912., 1912), by ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad Samʻānī, D. S. Margoliouth, Alexander George Ellis, and British Museum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mélanges d'histoire et de philologie orientale (E. Ducrocq, 1861), by Etienne Quatremère (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Arab world: past, present, and future (H. Regnery Co., 1953), by Nejla Mustapha Izzeddin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Syrian desert; caravans, travel and exploration (Macmillan, 1938), by Christina Phelps Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Customs and traditions of Palestine, illustrating the manners of the ancient Hebrews (Deighton, Bell, and co.; etc., etc., 1864), by Ermete Pierotti and T. G. Bonney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulūgh al- arab fī maʼāthir al ʻArab. (1901), by Muḥyi al-Dīn al-ʻAṭṭār (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Coutumes des Arabes au pays de Moab. (J. Gabalda, 1908), by Antonin Jaussen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thawrat al-ʻArab : muqaddimatuhā, asbābuhā, natāʼijuhā (Maktabat al-Hilāl, 1916) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De l'économic publique et rurale des Arabes et des Juifs (J. J. Paschoud; [etc., etc.], 1820), by L. Reynier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voldserzählungen aus Palästina gesammelt bei den bauern von Bir-Zet und in verbindung mit Dschirius Jusif in Jerusalem (Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1918), by Hans Schmidt and Paul Kahle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Biblioteca arabo-sicula, ossia Raccolta di testi arabici che toccano la geografia, la storia, le biografie e la bibliografia della Sicilia. (F.A. Brockhaus, 1857), by Michele Amari and Leipzig Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scènes de mœurs arabes (Challamel Ainé, 1876), by Charles Louis Florentin Richard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le culte d'Aphrodite-Anahita chez les arabes du paganisme (J. Maisonneuve, 1902), by E. Blochet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les puissances devant la révolte arabe; La crise mondiale de demain. (Hachette, 1906), by Eugène Jung (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Kultur der Araber. (Quelle & Meyer, 1909), by Joseph Hell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Arab's place in the sun (T. Butterworth, ltd., 1929), by Richard Coke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Children of the desert. (Curtis & Davison, 1910), by M. F. Smithes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geschichte der Araber. (K.F. Koehler, 1914), by Clément Huart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geschichte der Araber (K. F. Koehler, 1914), by Clément Huart, Moritz Färber, and Sebastian Beck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rapport sur les études berbères, éthiopiennes et arabes, 1887-1891 (Pub. Dept., Oriental University Institute, 1892), by René Basset and England) International Congress of Orientalists 1891 : London (page images at HathiTrust)
• A concise history of the Moors in Spain, from their invasion of that kingdom to their final expulsion from it. (F., C., and J. Rivington [etc.], 1811), by Thomas Bourke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes d'ethnographie musicale. (Fischbacher, 1905), by Julien Tiersot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La révolte arabe ... (C. Bohrer, 1924), by Eugène Jung (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les Arabes; origine, moeurs, religion, conquêtes. (Mégard, 1886), by Th. Bachelet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Incidents of travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land (Harper & Brothers, 1838), by John L. Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)
• A complete history of the Arabs : from the birth of Mohammed to the reduction of Baghdad; with the life of Mohammed ... (Printed for T. Osborne [and 8 others], 1761) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trends of social and cultural change in Bishmizzeen, an Arab village of North Lebanon. ([Ithaca, N.Y.], 1940), by Afif I. Tannus (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Arab and Moslem world : studies and problems. (Princeton University, 1947), by N.J.) Princeton University Bicentennial Conference on Near Eastern Culture and Society (1946 : Princeton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information about Arabs and Mohammedanism (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1912), by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Silvestre de Sacy (1758-1838) (Le Caire : L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1905), by A. I. Silvestre de Sacy, Georges Salmon, and Hartwig Derenbourg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Étude sur la conquête de l'Afrique par les Arabes : et recherches sur les tribus berbères qui ont occupé le Maghreb central (Impr. Impériale, 1857), by Henri Fournel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Islam under the Arabs (Longmans, Green, and co., 1876), by Robert Durie Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die blutrache bei den vorislamischen Arabern und Mohammeds stellung zu ihr. (B. G. Teubner, 1899), by Otto Procksch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the Moors in Spain (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1891), by Stanley Lane-Poole and Arthur Gilman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des traces laissées en Provence par les Sarrasins. ([L.] Duc [& cie], 1908), by Henri Bigot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le réveil de la nation arabe dans l'Asie turque ... Partie asiatique de la question d'Orient et programme de la Ligue de la patrie arabe (Plon-Nourrit et cie, 1905), by Najīb 'Āzūrī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kitāb nafḥ al-ṭīb min ghuṣn al-Andalus al-raṭīb, wa-dhikr wazīrihā Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb (Maṭbaʻah al-Azharīyah al-Miṣrīyah, 1884), by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Maqqarī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Sakhāwī, and -956? Masʻūdī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tableaux de vie arabe (H. Piazza & cie, 1904), by Sliman ben Ibrahim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Per la Tripolitania : la religione e teosofia degli Arabi. (E. Loescher & co., 1912), by Augusto Agabiti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mahomet and his successors (G. P. Putnam, 1855), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the Saracens : comprising the lives of Mohammed and his successors, to the death of Abdalmelik, the eleventh caliph, with an account of their most remarkable battles, sieges, revolts, [etc.] collected from authentic sources, especially Arabic MSS. ([publisher not identified], 1847), by Simon Ockley (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'assimilation des Arabes, suivie d'une étude sur les Touareg, par un ancien curé de Laghouat, auteur de: Les Arabes et l'occupation restreinte. (Challamel, 1866) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kratkoe povi︠e︡stvovanīe o aravli︠a︡nakh. (V Kalugi︠e︡, 1787) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thawrat al-ʻArab. (1916) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Silvestre de Sacy (1758-1838) Notice bibliographique, par M. Hartwig Derenbourg. (Le Caire : L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1905), by A. I. Silvestre de Sacy and Hartwig Derenbourg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Spain : being a summary of Spanish history from the Moorish conquest to the fall of Granada (711-1492 A.D.) (T. Fisher Unwin, 1894), by Henry Edward Watts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The daughter of Abd Salam : the story of a peasant woman of Palestine (B. Humphries, 1934), by Florence Mary Fitch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Revolt in the desert (J. Cape, 1927), by T. E. Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bulūgh al-arab fī maʼāthir al-ʻArab (880-04 ʻAbayh, Lubnān : Maṭbaʻat al-Ṣafā, 1319 [H.], [1901? M.], 1901), by Muḥyī al-Dīn ʻAṭṭār (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tales of the Caliph. (T. F. Urwin, 1887), by Al Arawiyah (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arabian society at the time of Muhammad -- (Thacker, Spink & co., 1926), by Pringle Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Colonia ([publisher not identified], 1922) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kitāb natāʻij al-afhām fī taqwīm al-ʻArab qabla al-Islām wa-fī taḥqīq mawlid al-Nabī (Maṭbaʻah al-Kubrá al-Amīrīyah, 1887), by Maḥmūd Bāshā Falakī and approximately 1866-1934 Aḥmad Zakī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mélanges d'histoire et de philologie orientale, précédés d'une notice sur l'auteur par M. Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire. (E. Ducrocq, 1861), by Etienne Quatremère and J. Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Āʼīnah-yi ʻArab : jis men̲ ʻArab qadīm ke mufaṣṣal muʻāsharatī, milkī, ʻilmī aur tārīk̲h̲ī jug̲h̲rāfiyāʼī ḥālāt daraj hain kitāb Sinājatut̤t̤arab fī taqaddumātilʻarab se ... Muḥammad Hārūn ne Urdū men̲ tarjumah kiyā. (K̲h̲ādimuttaʻlīm Sṭīm Pres, in the 19th century), by Nawfal Niʻmat Allāh Ṭarābulusī and Muḥammad Hārūn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Arabian nights entertainments. (McLoughlin Bros., in the 1890s) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le réveil de la nation arabe dans l'Asie turque en présence des intérêts et des rivaltés des puissances étrangères, de la curie romaine et du patriarcat œcuménique : partie asiatique de la question d'Orient et programme de la Ligue de la patrie arabe (Plon-Nourrit, 1905), by Najīb 'Āzūrī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Brasil e Oriente ([publisher not identified], 1928), by Mūsá Kuraym, Rābiṭah al-Sharqīyah (Cairo), and Majmuʻ al-ʻIlmī al-ʻArabī (Damascus) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geschichte der Araber. Namen - und Sachverzeichnis (Leipzig : K. F. Koehler, 1916., 1916), by Clément Huart, Moritz Färber, and Sebastian Beck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kitāb nafḥ al-ṭīb min ghuṣn al-Andalus al-raṭīb, wa-dhikr wazīrihā Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb (Maṭbaʻah al-Azharīyah al-Miṣrīyah, 1884), by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Maqqarī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Sakhāwī, and -956? Masʻūdī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arab and Druze at home : A record of travel and intercourse with the peoples east of the Jordan, by W. Ewing (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Women of the Arabs, by Henry Harris Jessup, ed. by Isaac Riley and Charles S. Robinson (Gutenberg ebook)

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