"The Bedouin or Bedu (/ˈbɛduɪn/;[16] Arabic: بَدْو‎, romanized: badw, singular بَدَوِي badawī) are a grouping of nomadic Arab people who have historically inhabited the desert regions in North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and the Levant.[17] The English word bedouin comes from the Arabic badawī, which means "desert dweller", and is traditionally contrasted with ḥāḍir, the term for sedentary people.[18] Bedouin territory stretches from the vast deserts of North Africa to the rocky sands of the Middle East.[19] They are traditionally divided into tribes, or clans (known in Arabic as ʿašāʾir; عَشَائِر), and share a common culture of herding camels and goats.[19] The vast majority of Bedouin adhere to Islam, although there are some fewer numbers of Arab Christian Bedouins present in the Fertile Crescent.[20][13][14][21]" - (en.wikipedia.org 27.09.2019)
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