Badawin

It is notorious that the Badawin are the people who best preserve the use of old and disputed words; for which reason they were constantly referred to by the learned in the palmy days of Moslem philology.

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Moreover, as I shall explain in another part of this work, it was of old, and still is, the custom of the fiercer kind of Badawin to flock to Arafat — where the victim is sure to be found — for the purpose of revenging their blood-losses.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Then he smote him on the neck and cut off his head. 221 When the Badawin saw their chief fall, they ran at Ali, but he cried out, saying, Allaho

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Badawin eat for counter-poison three heads of garlic in clarified butter for forty days.

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The people too dislike to see a hat on a thorough-bred mare: “What hast thou done that thou art ridden by that ill-omened Kafir?” the Badawin used to mutter when they saw a highly respectable missionary at Damascus mounting a fine Ruwalá mare.

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Provinces and the Shaykhs of the Badawin, both tributary and independent, so that the whole kingdom submitted to him and the folk obeyed him and he reigned and bade and forbade in peace and quiet for a time of five months.

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“Jamal” (by Badawin pronounced “Gamal” like the Hebrew) is the generic term for “Camel” through the

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(Father of farts) is a facetious term among the bean-eating Fellahs and a deadly insult amongst the Badawin (Night ccccx.).

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Then would appear the woollen tents, low and black, of the true Badawin, mere dots in the boundless waste of lion tawny clays and gazelle brown gravels, and the camp fire dotting like a glow worm the village centre.

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Badawin despise all half-breeds (Arab sires and country mares),

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