William Robertson Smith

Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Cook, Stanley A.

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666769449
• Artikelnr.: 72333691

Autorenporträt

William Robertson Smith (1846-1894) was a pioneer of historical criticism in Great Britain. He was educated at the universities in Aberdeen and Edinburgh and was Chair of Hebrew and Old Testament at Free Church College, Aberdeen. Smith was dismissed from Aberdeen in 1881 on a charge of heresy. In 1883 he moved to Cambridge as reader in Arabic and member of Trinity College.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The theory of genealogists as to the origin of Arabic tribal groups
2. The kindred group and its dependents or allies
3. The homogeneity of the kindred group in relation to the law of marriage and descent
4. Paternity
5. Paternity, polyandry with male kinship, and with kinship through women
6. Female kinship and bars to marriage
7. Totemism
8. Conclusion
Notes and illustrations
Index.