Was there a “Bedouinization of Arabia”?
In 1953, Werner Caskel produced a theory which he called “the Bedouinization of Arabia”. In this, he maintained that around AD 100 Arabia was peaceful, dominated by settled states, with some non-tribal nomads who were simply “shepherds near the cities”. He contrasted this with Arabia in the sixth an...
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De Gruyter
2015
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