Name of Object:

Bedouin of the Houran

Location:

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (Sharjah)

Holding Institution:

Sharjah Art Museum / Sharjah Museums Authority

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Date of Object:

Published 1881–1884

Author:

Philip Meeder (Date of birth unknown-1913)

Inventory Number:

SM 2006 - 859

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Wood engraving

Dimensions:

195 mm x 243 mm

Provenance:

New York

Description:

The constant movement of large Bedouin confederations regularly impacted on the history of the Middle East, in particular when it intersected with settled societies and cities. The bedouins of Hauran lived in the Hauran plain in what is now SW Syria/ NW Jordan at the time. The Sheikh of the Hauran bedouins was employed by the Ottoman pasha of Damascus to collect tribute from all tribes in the area and help in its defence. Philip Meeder was a British wood engraver, who died in 1913. The image is taken from ’Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt’, Charles William Wilson ed., 1881. The accompanying text in the book reads: 'A bedouin of the Haurân. Bedouins occupy the north-west district of the Haurân; the plain is inhabited by peasants, and the Druses for many centuries have colonised the mountain range.

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Wood engraving

Citation of this web page:

Ulrike al-Khamis "Bedouin of the Houran" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2025.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;ua;11;en

Prepared by: Ulrike Al-Khamis

MWNF Working Number: UA 011