Yemen's Tribal Idiom: An Ethno-Historical Survey of Genealogical Models
The notion of an Arab tribe has been widely debated by anthropologists and historians. Whatever its relevance in specific social and historical contexts, it often serves as idiom of alleged genealogical descent. Arab scholars created a genre of nasab (genealogy) literature, most notably that of Ibn...
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Journal of Semitic studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 62, Issue: 1, Pages: 217-241 |
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