The Story of a Desert Knight

The Story of a Desert Knight PDF Author: P. M. Kurpershoek
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004101029
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Book Description
This volume presents in translation and transcription the oral text of narratives about and poems by Slēwīḥ, one of Arabia's most famous nineteenth-century robber barons, recorded by Xālid, a sheikh of the 'Utaybah tribe of Saudi Arabia and the great-grandson of Slēwīḥ.