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    My Years with the Arabs: ISF Monograph 8
    My Years with the Arabs: ISF Monograph 8
    My Years with the Arabs: ISF Monograph 8
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    My Years with the Arabs: ISF Monograph 8

    By Sir John Glubb

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    For more than thirty years, The Institute for Cultural Research (ICR) led the field in stimulating debate and examining ideas within the humanities. Among the Institute's active followers was J. D. Salinger, Robert Graves, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing, and many others from all walks of life._x000D_
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    During its long and distinguished service, ICR published dozens of papers on cultural and cross-cultural themes. Written by scientists, scholars, novelists, musicians, and an array of others, these papers formed a unique resource that is as relevant today as it was decades ago._x000D_
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    In the years since ICR ceased formal activities, The Idries Shah Foundation has continued the spirit of its work, and have republished the full range of original monographs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherISF Publishing
    Release dateMay 1, 2020
    ISBN9781784798864
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      My Years with the Arabs - Sir John Glubb

      My Years with the Arabs

      General Sir John Glubb

      Contents

      My Years with the Arabs

      About the Author

      About ISF

      About Idries Shah

      About ISF Monographs

      ISF Monographs

      Copyright © 1971 Sir John Glubb

      The right of the Estate of Sir John Glubb to be identified as the owners of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      MONOGRAPH SERIES NO. 8

      The Institute for Cultural Research

      Opinions expressed in monographs published by the Institute for Cultural Research are to be regarded as those of the authors.

      Copyright The Estate of Idries Shah

      The right of the Estate of Idries Shah to be identified as the owner of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      All rights reserved

      Copyright throughout the world

      ISBN 978-1-78479-408-8 MOBI

      ISBN 978-1-78479-886-4 EPUB

      First Published 1971

      Published in this edition 2020

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      My Years with the Arabs

      Anyone who writes or speaks about Arabs is obliged, first of all, to say what he means by the word – who, in his opinion, the Arabs are. This introduction involves a little history. Basically, of course, the Arabs were the people who lived in the peninsula of Arabia, an area which today includes Saudi Arabia, the west side of the Persian Gulf, Oman and South Arabia and the Yemen. As most of the inhabitants of this area were nomadic, the word Arab also came to have the secondary meaning of nomads.

      Let us begin our brief historical review in the seventh century AD. The world (omitting India and China) was at that time divided between an Eastern

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