6 janvier 2016
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Paul Dresch, « Political history », Centre français d’archéologie et de sciences sociales, ID : 10.4000/books.cefas.841
A detailed history of the tribes at Baraṭ itself is not possible. As usual in Arabia, the documents that might allow us to reconstruct the detail of tribal movements and redefinitions locally are not in any central archive but in the possession of families –if they exist at all. We can, however, say something about Yemen’s political history, to which Dhū Muḥammad and their neighbours, in the sense of adjacent tribes, were at once both important and in some ways marginal. Although the tribes a...