The Animal Names of the Arab Ancestors

The Animal Names of the Arab Ancestors
Author: William C Young
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2024-03-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004690409

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In the Arab world, people belong to kinship groups that are named after wolves, birds, and plants. Why these names? Young's book questions old explanations and suggests a new hypothesis: Bedouin tribes use such names to obscure internal cleavages.