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This volume was originally published in 1925 and is a digest of the law and practice of the Bedouin Courts, together with an account of desert life and customs.
"Mr Kennett, although he may have been tempted to deal weightily with a subject often so ponderous as the jurisprudence of a whole race, yet contrives to make his style and his subject matter as light as the desert sand…" Times Literary Supplement
Topics include:
Tribal Organization
Application of Tribalism
Social Distinctions
The Tribal Idea
Judicial Organization
Evidence and Bedouin Law
Bloodmoney: Sinai and Western Desert
Debts
Land Disputes
Inheritance
Trial by Ordeal
Wounds and Damages
Laws Relating to Women
The Anomalous Position of Bedouin Law
