Coutumes des Arabes au Pays de Moab.

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viii, [1], 448 pp., frontispiece portrait, half-title, numerous b/w photographs taken by the author in & hors text, 1 map, publisher?s original wrappers, lightly faded and rubbed at top spine, appendices, index, toning to pages, otherwise copy in good condition. Antonin Jaussen, a Franciscan French priest, and archaeologist who was the director of the Biblical School of St. James at Jerusalem at the turn of the 20th century. He and his companion Sauvignac traveled to Hijaz in 1907 with the purpose of studying and recording old Arabic inscription in Northern Arabia. In this work Jaussen describes the tribal structure of the Bedouins tribes wandering between Amman and Aqaba, their customs, traditions, and the relation between different tribes. He also describes the different tribes of Moab and the Naqb tribes of Southern Palestine. #18726. N° de ref. del artículo 007086

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