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Guests of the Sheik

An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

By Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

By Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

By Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

By Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

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Category: Religion | History

Category: Religion | History

Paperback $17.00

Oct 01, 1995 | ISBN 9780385014854

Ebook $11.99

Nov 03, 2010 | ISBN 9780307773784

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    About Guests of the Sheik

    A delightful account of one woman’s two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman. 

    “A most enjoyable book abouut [Muslim women]—simple, dignified, human, colorful, sad and humble as the life they lead.” —Muhsin Mahdi, Jewett Professor of Arabic Literature, Harvard Unversity.

    A wonderful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study that offers a unique insight into a part of the Midddle Eastern life seldom seen by the West.

    About Guests of the Sheik

    A delightful account of one woman’s two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman. 

    “A most enjoyable book abouut [Muslim women]—simple, dignified, human, colorful, sad and humble as the life they lead.” —Muhsin Mahdi, Jewett Professor of Arabic Literature, Harvard Unversity.

    A wonderful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study that offers a unique insight into a part of the Midddle Eastern life seldom seen by the West.

    About Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

    Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and her husband, Robert Fernea, traveled to the Arab world for the first time in 1956. After writing Guests of the Sheik, her first book, she wrote The Arab World with Robert Fernea, as well as books about Egypt and Morocco…. More about Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

    About Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

    Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and her husband, Robert Fernea, traveled to the Arab world for the first time in 1956. After writing Guests of the Sheik, her first book, she wrote The Arab World with Robert Fernea, as well as books about Egypt and Morocco…. More about Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

    Product Details

    Category: Religion | History

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Anchor
    Oct 01, 1995 | 368 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780385014854

    Category: Religion | History

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Anchor
    Nov 03, 2010 | 368 Pages | ISBN 9780307773784
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