Gazetteer of Arabian tribes  Gazetteer of Arabian Tribes 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2445837Y

  Author(s)

  Trench, Richard

  City

  Cambridge 

  Country

  United Kingdom 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  - 

  Date of Publication

  - 

  Publisher

  Archive Editions  

  Cover Type

  Hard cover 

  Pages

  - 

  Subject

  Ethnic Studies / Ethnology

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Trench, Richard

  Publisher

  Archive Editions  

• Description

  Gazetteer of Arabian Tribes 18-volume set, approximately 12,000 pages and a map pocket with 6 maps. ISBN of this edition is 185207700X, subsequent editions use 9781852077006 (print) and 9781139964920 (e-book). This gazetteer, after years of research, provides a magnificent collection of historical descriptions of Arabian tribes from British archival sources in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Some 745 tribes are included, representing most of the major clans and families in the Arabian peninsula. From Iraq and Syria the geographic coverage includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States to Oman, the Hadhramaut and Yemen. The records show territories and nomadic routes, tribal relations and allegiance, military strength, personalities and modern influence. These 12,000 pages, supported by 6 tribal maps, provide the broadest array ever assembled of English language historical references concerning approximately 745 tribes, tribal confederations and clans in the Arabian peninsula. The editor has sought to provide substantial descriptive references on the tribes. He has included references to tribal movements where significant and to the irregular skirmishes between neighbouring tribes where they reflect changes within the balance of relations between those tribes. It is likely to remain the definitive research work for tribal history. From the eyewitness accounts of the Hijaz tribes riding into battle in 1917 to a social and political breakdown of the Jaburi tribe of Iraq, this gazetteer adds an important resource to the study of Arab history.