Bedouins and tribes in the Arab countries

The author of the book relied in his valuable study of the conditions of Bedouins and tribes in the Arab countries on his observations and notes resulting from his living with the tribes and clans settled or semi-settled on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates, in addition to his knowledge of what was written about those regions by Orientalists and Arab specialists, collecting the common denominators of the conditions of Bedouins and tribes, and classifying them in a smooth and concise manner.

The exceptional wandering among Bedouin and tribal societies and staying among them in various Arab countries for a long time enabled the author to obtain valuable information about Bedouin literature, its traditions, customs, and the social transformations that occur there. The reader finds in the book a unique familiarity with Bedouin civilization, and an encyclopedic knowledge of its terminology with chapters devoted to the Bedouin view of magic and superstitions, wars and invasions, and social organization.