Book contents
- Frontmatter
- THE PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I THE PERAEA; AMMON AND MOAB
- CHAPTER II THE MOUNTAIN OF EDOM: ARABIA PETRAEA
- CHAPTER III THE HAJ JOURNEYING IN ARABIA
- CHAPTER IV MEDÁIN [THE “CITIES” OF] SÂLIḤ
- CHAPTER V MEDÁIN SÂLIḤ AND EL-‘ALLY
- CHAPTER VI EL-‘ALLY, EL-KHREYBY, MEDÁIN
- CHAPTER VII RETURN OF THE HAJ
- CHAPTER VIII THE NOMAD LIFE IN THE DESERT
- CHAPTER IX LIFE IN THE WANDERING VILLAGE
- CHAPTER X THE NOMADS IN THE DESERT VISIT TO TEYMA
- CHAPTER XI THE FUKARA WANDERING AS FUGITIVES IN ANOTHER DÎRA
- CHAPTER XII PEACE IN THE DESERT
- CHAPTER XIII MEDÁIN REVISITED. PASSAGE OF THE HARRA
- CHAPTER XIV WANDERING UPON THE HARRA WITH THE MOAHÎB
- CHAPTER XV OUR LIFE UPON THE HARRA
- CHAPTER XVI THE AARAB FORSAKE THE HARRA AND DESCEND TO THEIR SUMMER STATION IN WADY THIRBA
- CHAPTER XVII THE MOAHIB SUMMER CAMP IN WADY THIRBA. VISIT TO EL-‘ALLY
- CHAPTER XVIII THE FUKARA SUMMERING AT EL-HEJR
- CHAPTER XIX TEYMA
- CHAPTER XX THE DATE HARVEST
- CHAPTER XXI THE JEBEL
- CHAPTER XXII HÂYIL
- Appendix to Vol. I
- Plate section
CHAPTER VI - EL-‘ALLY, EL-KHREYBY, MEDÁIN
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 December 2010
- Frontmatter
- THE PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I THE PERAEA; AMMON AND MOAB
- CHAPTER II THE MOUNTAIN OF EDOM: ARABIA PETRAEA
- CHAPTER III THE HAJ JOURNEYING IN ARABIA
- CHAPTER IV MEDÁIN [THE “CITIES” OF] SÂLIḤ
- CHAPTER V MEDÁIN SÂLIḤ AND EL-‘ALLY
- CHAPTER VI EL-‘ALLY, EL-KHREYBY, MEDÁIN
- CHAPTER VII RETURN OF THE HAJ
- CHAPTER VIII THE NOMAD LIFE IN THE DESERT
- CHAPTER IX LIFE IN THE WANDERING VILLAGE
- CHAPTER X THE NOMADS IN THE DESERT VISIT TO TEYMA
- CHAPTER XI THE FUKARA WANDERING AS FUGITIVES IN ANOTHER DÎRA
- CHAPTER XII PEACE IN THE DESERT
- CHAPTER XIII MEDÁIN REVISITED. PASSAGE OF THE HARRA
- CHAPTER XIV WANDERING UPON THE HARRA WITH THE MOAHÎB
- CHAPTER XV OUR LIFE UPON THE HARRA
- CHAPTER XVI THE AARAB FORSAKE THE HARRA AND DESCEND TO THEIR SUMMER STATION IN WADY THIRBA
- CHAPTER XVII THE MOAHIB SUMMER CAMP IN WADY THIRBA. VISIT TO EL-‘ALLY
- CHAPTER XVIII THE FUKARA SUMMERING AT EL-HEJR
- CHAPTER XIX TEYMA
- CHAPTER XX THE DATE HARVEST
- CHAPTER XXI THE JEBEL
- CHAPTER XXII HÂYIL
- Appendix to Vol. I
- Plate section
Summary
I Heard here, from many credible persons, that a certain Yahûdy was once come to them some years before, they thought from the coast; others said from Jerusalem. They had found a pleasure in the stranger's discourse; for he was of the Arabic tongue, one well studied therein and eloquent: also they heard from him many admirable things of the Jewish Scriptures, “which were not far from their own thoughts, and agreeable with many places of ‘God's word’.” Some of the principal persons had called him to eat with them. The Yahûy went upon a day to visit Medáin Sâlih, and returned saying, those old monuments were of the Nasâra, (neither Jew nor Mohammedan has any natural curiosity in architecture). They could not certainly tell me what became of him; some thought he had gone from them to Kheybar. Later at Teyma, the sheykh spoke to me of a stranger who had passed there not many years ago, and stayed a day or two in his house, “one who would not travel upon the sabt” (Sabbath). When afterwards I was at Kheybar, the villagers told me of a Yahudy, who came thither from el-Ally as they supposed; for Arabs, so remiss in the present, are commonly fatally incurious of all time past.
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- Travels in Arabia Deserta , pp. 150 - 189Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1888