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NOTES

1. The authors here wish to acknowledge the help and information which
were given by the following: Prince Torki M. Saud; Shaykh Naif Hadithah
al-Khurayshah; Shaykh Lawrence Shaalan; Mr Roger Upton, who also very
kindly lent a number of the photographs reproduced here as plates; Hasan Neinah.
Without their assistance and advice, this article could not have been written.
Our thanks are also due to Miss Gwen Moody and Professor T. M. Johnstone
who read our draft and made suggestions for the improvement of the text.
Those words in the text marked with an asterisk are dealt with at length in the
Glossary.
2. ‘Were it not for the chase there would be no pleasure’. Quoted in Anon.,
Kitab al-Bayzarah (ed. Muhammad Kurd ‘AIT), Damascus, 1953, 26.
3. Usamah b. Munqidh, Kitab al-Ttibar (cd. H. Derenbourg), Paris, 1889. Cf.
also P. K. Hitti , Memoirs of an Arab-Syrian Gentleman, Beirut, 1964.
4. A facsimile of the Vatican MS, Pal. Lat. 1071 was published in Graz,
1969. The work has been admirably translated, cf. C. A. Wood and F. M. Fyfe,
The Art of Falconry, Stanford, 1943.
5. F. Vire, ‘Bayzara’, Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., I, 1 152-55.
6. H. R. P. Dickson, The Arab of the Desert, London, 1951.
7. A. Musil, The Manners and Customs of the Rwala Bedouins, New York,
1928.
8. C. R. Raswan, The Black Tents of Arabia, London, n.d.
9. C. M. Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta, Cambridge, 1888.
10. ‘Bayzara’, 1152.
11. This revelation was in reply to the question ‘What do you think of our
hunting with dogs?’. Cf. Abu’l-Fath Mahmud b. al-Hasan Kushajim, Kitab
al-Ma$ayid wa’l-Ma{arid (ed. Muhammad As‘ad Talas), Baghdad, 1954,131—2 and
Bayzarah, 140.
12. We have here abridged Mercier’s excellent summary of these prescriptions
as they are laid down in al-JamV al-SahTh of al-Bukhari. Cf. L. Mercier, La
Chasse et les Sports chez les Arabes, Paris, 1927, 38-9.
13. Abu ‘Abdallah Muhammad b. Isma‘11 al-Bukhari, al-Jami1 al-SahTh (ed.
M. L. Krehl and T. W. Juynboll), Leiden, 1908, W, Kitab al-Dhaba'ih wa'l-Sayd,
72, Bab al-Tasmiyah, 4.
14. Bukhari, SahTh, IV, Bab Sayd al-MVrad, 5.
15. SahTh, IV, Bab Sayd al-Qaws, 5. The last sentence is a free translation of
adrakta dhakatahu.
16. Saluh, IV, Bab man iqtana kalban etc., 6.
17. Cf. Mercier, Chasse, 40-1. The absence of hawks from hadTth literature
probably indicates that this method of hunting was not at all widespread in the
Peninsula at the time of the Prophet. There is, however, evidence that hunting
with hawks was not unknown at that time: cf. Vire, ‘Bayzara’, 1152.
18. ‘Bayzara’, 1153.
19. E.g. Raswan, Tents, 176 and 181; Musil, Rwala, 33-4; it is most
unfortunate that the error has appeared in Vire, ‘Bayzara’, 1152.