title: Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
author:  Lila Abu-Lughod 
description: "A valuable contribution in many areas, giving us new dimensions of nomadic and Arab culture, poetry, women, and gender roles and a fresh way of looking at the interrelatedness of the ideology and politics of sentiment. An outstanding anthropological ethnography of the Bedouin of the Egyptian desert, as well as an unusually skillful analysis of gender and social structure as it is expressed through womens poetic discourse. -- <i>International Journal of Middle East Studies </i>
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  Al-Adab al-Mufrad  
  Al-Bukhari  
  Topics  
  I. Parents  
  II. Ties of Kinship  
  III. Mawlas  
  IV. Looking After Girls  
  V. Looking After Children  
  VI. Neighbours  
  VII. Generosity and Orphans  
  VIII. Children Dying  
  IX. Being a Master  
  X. Responsibility  
  XI. Correctness  
  XII. Dealing with people cheerfully  
  XIII. Consulation  
  XIV. Dealings with people and good character  
  XV. Cursing and Defamation  
  XVI. Praising People  
  XVII. Visiting and Guests  
  XVIII. The Elderly  
  
  XIX. Children  
  XX. Mercy  
  XXI. Social Behaviour  
  XXII. Separation  
  XXII. Advice  
  XXIII. Defamation  
  XXIV. Extravagance in Building  
  XXV. Compassion  
  XXVI. Attending to this world  
  XXVII. Injustice  
  XXVIII. Illness and Visiting those who are ill  
  XXIX. General Behaviour  
  XXX. Supplication  
  XXXI. Guests and Spending  
  XXXII. Speech  
  XXXIII. Names  
  XXXIV. Kunyas  
  XXXV. Poetry  
  XXXVI. Words  
  XXXVII. General Behaviour  
  XXXVIII. Omens  
  XXXIX. Sneezing and Yawning  
  XD. Gestures  
  XDI. Greeting  
  XD