Bedouin Place-Names in Sinai: Towards Understanding A Desert Map

Bailey, Clinton

doi:10.1179/peq.1984.116.1.42

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“…A list of the most often-used indigenous types is in Table 1. South Sinai Bedouin also use many of these terms (see Bailey 1984). Many of the following and other local landscape names do not appear in Bailey's paper or in Groom's Arabic topographic dictionary (Groom 1983).…”

Section: Named Objectsmentioning

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Bedouin Place Names in the Eastern Desert of Egypt

Hobbs¹

2014

Nomadic Peoples

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This paper analyses Maʿaza Bedouin toponymy in the northern half of Egypt's Eastern Desert. Maʿaza people started naming places as they began immigrating from northwest Arabia about 250 years ago. The main place objects are valleys, mountains, water sources, trees and tracks. These are named after individuals and groups, historic events, perennial plants, animals and their behaviour, material culture and environmental perceptions. Place naming helps assert the people's claim to this land. The named cultural landscape is a kind of autobiography that continues to be written and is perpetuated only orally. For nomadic pastoralists, place names help to reduce risk in a challenging environment and to conserve natural resources, especially woody trees that sustain livestock during drought. Sedentarisation is threatening this rich body of oral tradition.

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Section: Named Objectsmentioning

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Bedouin Place Names in the Eastern Desert of Egypt

Hobbs¹

2014

Nomadic Peoples

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“…Subsequently, linguistic, geographic, and topographic dictionaries especially of the nearby, Western Asian Arab countries (e.g. Saudi Arabia, Syria, Palestine, Jordan) (Groom 1983;Ramzi 1994;Dhib 2006), as well as historical books (Shoucair 1916;Mubasher and Tawfiq 1998), and travel literature (Bailey 1984;Fabri 2007) were used to identify the meanings and the motivation behind the place naming process.…”

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“…It also seems that most of them were corrupted into completely meaningless forms. Examples include Lussan from Roman Lyssa, Firan from Pharan, and Gharandal from Greek Surandela (Bailey 1984).…”

Section: Classification Analysis Of Sinai Place-names: Namegiving Appmentioning

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An exploratory study of place-names in Sinai Peninsula, Egypt: a spatial approach

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The Sinai Peninsula is a vital part of the Arab Republic of Egypt, geographically and historically. Its uniqueness and diversity of nature are reflected in its place-names, including both physical and human (cultural) features. The objectives of this study are to: (1) construct a digital geo-database of place-names; (2) classify the collected names based on their meanings to understand the motives behind naming them; and (3) utilize GIS-based spatial analysis techniques to map, geovisualize and analyse the spatial distribution pattern of specific categories of such names. In this paper, the results show that most place-names are descriptive of the place they belong, either in whole or in part. They usually depict their geographical character and that in turn demonstrates how place-names and the naming process itself represent responses to the physical environment and cultural landscape and how place-names studies reveal patterns of settlement in the region under study.

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Shaykh’s Tombs

Petersen

2017

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Bedouin Place-Names in Sinai: Towards Understanding A Desert Map

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Bedouin Place Names in the Eastern Desert of Egypt

Bedouin Place Names in the Eastern Desert of Egypt

An exploratory study of place-names in Sinai Peninsula, Egypt: a spatial approach

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