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Research notes and background materials, 1974-2007, and undated, inclusive

Articles: Fawasel (magazine), issue 39, "The Giant Poet: al-Dindān...", p, 98-99, August 1997

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Articles: Quṭūf (magazine), Dhū al-Qaʿdah, AH 1418, pp. 24-30, article profiling the poet al-Dindan, and Kurpershoek's study of his work, (February 1998)

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Articles: Quṭūf (magazine), Dhū l-Ḥijjah, 1418, p. 52, contains article by Saad Sowayan, about Nabati poetry, [April 1998]

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Articles: Quṭūf (magazine), Muḥarram, 1419. Cover: "Al-Dindān: the Last Journey of the Last Bedouin," pp. 64-65, [May 1998]

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Articles: Quṭūf (magazine), Ṣafar 1419, p. 52, article "Elegy of al-Dindān," by Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Dhīb al-Wudʿānī, [June 1998]

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Baradouni, Abdullah: copied materials from Yemeni sources, 1993-1996, and undated, inclusive

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Bibliography of popular (Nabati) poetry

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Calendar (from time of field work in Saudi Arabia), 1989

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Kitāb al-Ibil: photocopied of unattributed manuscript on camels, undated

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Magazine: Turāth (Abu Dhabi: Emirates Cultural Club), issue 196; special issue on the occasion of the Sultan bin Zayed Heritage Festival, with cover story on camel racing, February 2016

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Nejd, general

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Netherlands, Consulate at Jeddah: copies of archival documents from 1926-1948

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Notes: exercises in translation and transliteration, from classical Arabic into Bedouin dialect

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Notes: topics, general

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Notes: themes in Bedouin poetry: plants and camels

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Notes: themes in Bedouin poetry: stars

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Notes: themes in Bedouin poetry: horses, palm trees, tents

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Notes: Arabic terms, drawn from other sources (Doughty, Hess, Musil), folder 1

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Notes: Arabic terms, drawn from other sources (Doughty, Hess, Musil), folder 2

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Notes: Arabic terms, drawn from other sources (Doughty, Hess, Musil), folder 3

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Offprints: Bailey, Clinton. "The Ottomans and the bedouin tribes of the Negev," extract from "Ottoman Palestine, 1800-1914," edited by Gad G. Gilbar (Leiden: Brill), 1990

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Offprints: Bakalla, M.H.: two reviews of works about Arabic dialect and provers, of Mekka, from "Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts, University of Riyad," Vol. 3, 1973-1974, inclusive

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Offprints: Bonebakker, Seeger A. "Mubarrad's Version of Two Poems by Al-Khansā'," extract from "Festschrift Ewald Wagner zum 65. Geburstag, Band 2: Studien zur arabischen Dichtung" (Beirut and Stuttgart: Steiner), 1994

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Offprints: Bonebakker, Seeger A. "Sariqa and Formula: Three chapters from Ḥātimi's Ḥilyat al-Muḥādara," extract, from Annali dell'Istituto Universitario di Napoli, Vol. 46, No. 3

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Offprints: Bonebakker, Seeger A. "Some medieval views on fantastic stories," extract, inscribed by author, from Quaderni di Studi Arabi, 10, 1992

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Offprints: Brugman, J. "Muḥammad al-Sibāʻī and the Egyptian literary renaissance," extract from "Akten des VII. Kongresses fuer Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft" (Goettingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht), 1974

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Offprints: de Jong, Frederick. "The Muslim Minorities in the Balkans on the Eve of the Collapse of Communism," extract, with inscription from author, from Islamic Studies (Islamabad: Islamic Research Institute), Vol. 36, No. 2, 1997

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Offprints: de Jong, Rudolf. "More Material on Fayyūmi Arabic (part 1)," extract from Zeitschrift fuer arabische Linguistik / Journal of Arabic Linguistics, Volume 31 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz), 1996

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Offprints: de Moor, Eduardus C.M., "Un Oiseau en Cage: le discours litteraire de Muḥammad Taymūr, 1892-1921" (Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi): booklet issued on awarding of doctorate to E.C.M. de Moor, Catholic University of Nijmegen, 1991

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Offprints: Gelder, Geert van. "Arabic Banqueters: Literature, Lexicography and Reality," extract from "Banquets d'Orient, Res Orientales IV, (Leuven: Peeters), 1992

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Offprints: Gelder, Geert van. "Arabic Debates of Jest and Earnest," extract from "Dispute Poems and Dialogues in the Ancient and Mediaeval Near East" (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 42), 1991

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Offprints: Gelder, Geert van. "Arabic Poetics and Stylistics according to the Introduction of al-Durr al-Farīd by Muḥammad Ibn Aydamir (d. 710/1310)," extract from Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlaendischen Gesellschaft," Band 146, Heft 2, 1996

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Offprints: Gelder, Geert van. "Mixtures of Jest and Earnest in Classical Arabic Literature, Part I," extract from Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol. 23, No. 2, July 1992

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Offprints: Gelder, Geert van. "Mixtures of Jest and Earnest in Classical Arabic Literature, Part II," extract from Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol. 23, No. 3, November 1992

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Offprints: Gelder, Geert van. "Musāwir al-Warrāq and the beginnings of Arabic gastronomic poetry," extract from Journal of Semitic Studies, Vol. 56, No. 2, 1991

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Offprints: Gelder, Geert van. "Pointed and Well-Rounded: Arabic Encomiastic and Elegiac Epigrams," extract from Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica, Vol. 26, 1995

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Offprints: Gelder, Geert van. "Some Types of Ambiguity: a Poem by Abū Nuwās on Al-Fadl al-Raqāsī ," extract from Quaderni di Studi Arabi (Universita di Venezia), Number 10, 1992

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Offprints: Gelder, Geert van. "Street Arabs, Satire and the Status of Poetry," extract from "Proceedings of the 14th Congress of the Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants," (Budapest: The Arabist), [1988]

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Offprints: Gelder, Geert van. "Waspish Verses: Abū Nuwās's Lampoons on Zunbūr ibn Abī Ḥammād," extract from Annali di Ca' Foscari (Universita di Venezia), Vol. 35, No. 3, 1996

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Offprints: Holes, Clive. "The dispute of Coffee and Tea: a Debate-Poem from the Gulf," unidentified extract, later published in J.R. Smart, ed., "Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Language and Literature" (Surrey: Curzon Press), 1996

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Offprints: Ingham, Bruce. "Camel Terminology among the Al-Murrah Bedouins," extract from Zeitschrift fuer arabische Linguistik / Journal of Arabic Linguistics, Volume 22 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz), 1990

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Offprints: Kruk, Remke. "Back to the Boudoir: Arabic versions of the Sirat al-amir Ḥamza, warrior princesses, and the Sira's literary unity," in Amsterdamer Beitraege zu Aelteren Germanistik, Band 48, 1997

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Offprints: Kruk, Remke. "Ibn Abī l-Ash'ath's Kitāb al-Ḥayawān: a Scientific Approach to Anthropology, Dietetics and Zoological Systematics," extract from Zeitschrift fuer Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, Band 14, 2001

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Offprints: Skarżyńska-Bocheńska, Krystyna. "L'amour et la mort dans la poesie d'Adonis," extract from "Rocznik Orientalistyczny," Vol. 53, No. 1, 2000

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Offprints: Skarżyńska-Bocheńska, Krystyna. "La liberte et ses symboles dans l'oeuvre d'Adonis, 'Ali Ahmad Sa'id Isbir, poete arabe du Liban," extract from extract from "Proceedings of the 14th Congress of the Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants," (Budapest: The Arabist), [1988]

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Offprints: Skarżyńska-Bocheńska, Krystyna. "Le reflet de la loi morale d'honneur dans la litterature arabe contemporaine," extract from "Literaturen Asiens und Afrikas: Theoretische Probleme" (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag), 1981

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Offprints: Skarżyńska-Bocheńska, Krystyna. "Les traces de principes d'honneur des arabes de anteislam dans les coutumes et proverbes contemporaines," extract from "Proceedings of the Colloquium on Logos, Ethos, Mythos in the Middle East and North Africa," (Budapest: The Arabist, Budapest Studies in Arabic 18), undated, circa 1995

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Offprints: Somekh, Sasson. "Two Versions of Dialogue in Maḥmūd Taymūr's Drama," Princeton Near East Paper, Number 21, 1975

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Photocopy of review article: "On the Unity and Disunity of the Qaṣīdah" (reviews of work by Geert van Gelder and Sasson Somekh), in "Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol. XXIV, 1993

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Poetry: Shammar (1): photocopy of printed text, with handwritten annotations, after consultation with Shammar poets.

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Poetry: Shammar (2): correspondence, photocopies of texts of transcriptions

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Poetry: Shammar (3): collected during research visit, not used in publication

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Photographs, copies of images from Snouck Hurgronje

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Project outline, for Saudi officials, undated, circa 1989

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Qusaybi, Ghani al-: open letter/poem to King, 1984

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Riyadh poetry conference: Newspaper clippings, February 1988 and undated

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Riyadh poetry conference: Papers by others: al-Bāza'ī , Sa'ad, "Hawl mafhum al-hadātha fī al-shi'r al-Khalījī...", 1988

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Riyadh poetry conference: Papers by others: al-Hāmid, 'Abd Allāh, "Al-tīyārāt al-shi'rīyah al-mu'āṣirah.... ", April 1988

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Riyadh poetry conference: Papers by others: Mahdi, Sami. [poetry compilation], 1988

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Riyadh poetry conference: Papers by others: al-Sarīḥī, Sa'ad, "Taḍārīs al-Khasūbah..." (Jeddah), [1988]

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Riyadh poetry conference: Papers by other: Sowayyan, Sa'ad, "Al-shi'r min al-mushāfihah ilá al-kitābah", [1988]

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Riyadh poetry conference: Papers by others: al-Wa'lhah, 'Abd al-Wahid, "Dawr al-tarjimah bil-shi'r al-hadīth", February 1988

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Riyadh poetry conference: Papers by others: unattributed essay about Shammar poetry, [1988]

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Shammar descendants in Turkey (Ahmed Sammaroglu): DVD of visit, 2007

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Shammar descendants in Turkey (Ahmed Sammaroglu): CDs of spoken poetry, recorded during Kurpershoek visit, 2007

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Ship's journal: from journey in Arabian Gulf, with copy of original text, English and Arabic translations, and notes. Copied from Dutch archive (unidentified, likely National Archives, The Hague). Tido Fredrik Van Kniphausen (captain)

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Sources

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Trip notes: Sinai, 1987

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Trip notes: Hail, May 1988

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Trip notes: Hail, July 1988

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Trip notes: Empty Quarter, February 1989

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Trip notes: Nifi, July 1989

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Trip notes: field notebooks, "'Oteiba", 1989

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Trip notes: field notebooks, Saudi Arabia, September - December 1989, inclusive

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Trip notes: field notebooks, Wadi Dawasir, September - December 1989, inclusive

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Trip notes: field notebook, Wadi Dawasir, 1994

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Trip notes: journal of trip, Saudi Arabia and Oman, 20 March - 16 April 1994, inclusive

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Trip notes: field notebook, Wadi Dawasir, 1998

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Wadi Dawasir: Background

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Wadi Dawasir: News clippings (1)

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Wadi Dawasir: News clippings (2)

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Wadi Dawasir: question of true Sheikh of Dawasir

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