John Philby Background of Islam p | |
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Philby,The background of Islam: Being a sketch of Arabian history in pre-Islamic timesWhitehead Morris Alexandira, Egypt ; 1st edition January 1 1947 p | Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing |
Most of the information about south Arabia reported by Strabo probably came straight from the Roman expedition.
1Strabo, Book XVI, Chapter 4, 22-24• Strabo described the custom in south Arabia which permitted women to have many husbands provided they were all brothers | Sharaffadin 42, Le Museon, 3-4, 1967, Pp |
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Other news of which Strabo was also the source, typical of the Romans' opinion of their own cultural superiority appears on the curious systems of how south Arabia's regal power was transferred and on its inhabitants' unorthodox sexual habits | Albert Jamme,inscription from Mahram Biqlis p |
Roman sources still bore the clear image of a wealthy and prosperous people living in a splendid country, but devoid of fundamental qualities such as the ability to fight.
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