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    this thread will help all who want's any information about some of the Traditions of war in the arab peninsula
    befor we talk about there Traditions let's know what are they
    they
    Bedouins are nomadic pastoralists population of the desert Arabs who live in tents and live on herding camels, cattle and moving from one place to another for water and pasture

    and there Origins dating back to Andan and Qahtan

    and that a small tip about them

    first we will talk about the unit's of the army

    1- alrkab : and said that they was twenty and below.
    2- algama : Army on the back and they are form one hundred to two thousand
    3- alsrbah : like the alrkab However the owners are knights riding horses and they don't ride camels and the alsrbah are much more than the alrkab
    4- alrkadha : they are a caverly From one hundred to two thousand
    5-allew'a : like an general bodyguard's and some call it alberak

    -Conventions of war-

    1- almanakh for a large battle and it was call manakh because
    2- aljesh for an attack to Twenty men and more on camel's
    3- algazzwa for a battle with caverly and some footman and the ledder
    is alakeed and it's not necessary to be the shikeh of the tribe is the leddar of this tybe of battle
    4- almgard it's a more than one year war
    5- alsarab an army just form caverly

    Types of wars

    1- algarat Which are usually in order to obtain the spoils and with limited numbers were made up of alrkab or alsrbah and There should be no warning to the other team or a specific date for it but take the form of sudden Blockade

    2-altawabier Means comprehensive military confrontation or war, which call on the critical forces and build on the material ambitions, but have many other reasons and this is the kind of readiness, challenge and advance warning, which is determined in light of the time and place of the battle

    Method of warfare

    1-without Shields heavy clothes and some mostly nude like the spartanes
    and they Believe that the bullets do not kill if a person entered his body, but if the bullet hit him and he had a dress made with a piece of his clothes in the body if taken out of the inflamed segment remained Roted dress and then kill him sick They consider stripping of clothes courage and chverliy

    2-alzamamel and those are like an reinforcement's

    3-astnjab alkhel and this is that they let the horses in ther side and they ride the camel's because the horses can't afford long distance ran

    4-alfares (the knight ) may be use in his fight with the enemies a sword or spear as well as using a gun, although difficult to control during the fighting

    5-night attack they like to make a garrah or algarrat in night and specialesly
    at the (seer) night and that night is the night that the power is continuing

    6-the winter is the best time to attack and that time is a large source of fear in the dessert

    7-they organize themselves at the garrah although they are few in number to two teames a teamto spoil the camels and the second group is protector

    8-In the people of the Arabian Peninsula they don't have privacy rules relating to the order of their soldiers the different powers and weaknesses of Emirate If it was weak ther war's will be like a garah a small battle's
    and if it was a powerful Emirate it will be the largest and most powerful organization form the compulsions and attacking and sieging

    9-Ambush's

    Military terminology

    1-rad alnga If a tribe want to attack a tribe must tell them through a messenger for the best man of the tribe

    2-bet it's a Night attack

    3-alswyb He's an injured during the battle, which is forbidden to kill him, but help and addresses

    4-aldkel A resort to the tribe on the run from vengeance and here the necessary income to protect and it does not extradite him

    5-alatfa it's a Fund wood decorated with ostrich feathers, studded with mirrors placed on the camel's back-bodied and led by one of the men
    and alatfa is like a banner for the army and usually take the Bedouin alatfa
    in major battle's and alatfa is a girl from the best girles of the tribe and usually the girl is the daughter of Sheikh and this girl steys in top the hodege is the fund wood that's in the top of the camel and this is a pic for the atfa


    6-almfza is the man who wek's the men of the tribes to war

    7-aloyon it's like spy's

    8-aldhawa it's a attack in Forenoon time

    9-alroha A battle which takes place after noon until sunset

    10-alhieafa They sneak in the night to the bats hostile tribes with a view to taking what could be Rcaibhm (camels), and horses

    11-almasyog A camel or the military (camels) that does not flinch from the Voice of arms

    12-altalae They are advancing army knights

    13-alglaee Horses are off from above knight, or taking off is underneath it, win's in the battle.

    14-alaarayf Which is gaining in the battle of camels or horses it defines the family of person but no longer have or to them

    and this are some pic's for the badwen life










    guys i work'd hard in this thread i wish it to be good
    and you like it and if i'm wrong in any thing i'm so sorry
    Last edited by ALFAJI; October 09, 2009 at 02:31 AM.

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