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Article: A Basic Vocabulary of the Bedouin Arabic Dialect of the Jbali Tribe.
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- July 1, 1994
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This book is the result of the author's pioneering fieldwork (1990-92, but interrupted by the Gulf War) near al-Tur and Wadi el-Feyran, southern Sinai (Egypt), under the sponsorship of the Japanese Ministry of Education. Nishio presents some information on the Jbali tribe, also jabali, jebeli, or j(i)baliyye (pp. ix-xi), whose history, we are told, is related to that of the famous St. Catherine's Monastery, built by the Byzantine emperor Justinian (527-566 A.D.). He describes the origins of the tribe, some of whom came from Bosnia, Wallachia (Rumania), as well as Alexandria. Their switch from Greek or Coptic to Arabic, according to the author, was such that their "first" ...
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