Item 85 - Letter from Professor W.R. Smith to Henry Sidgwick

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Add. MS c/95/85

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Letter from Professor W.R. Smith to Henry Sidgwick

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  • 1 Oct 1891 (Creation)

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Smith, William Robertson (1846-1894) theologian and Semitic scholar
(1846-1894)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Quotes a passage from the Aghani, volume 3, page 17, involving Zohair b. Hobab the Kalbite and his nephew Abdallah b. Alim b. Hobab, the former having been contradicted by the latter drank wine until it killed him. Another passage on the role of the Sheikh is also quoted from Burckhardt's Bedouins and Wahabys, volume 1, p.117.

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