Members of a Semitic people inhabiting the Arabian peninsula or other countries of the Middle East and North Africa. The term may be used with reference to ancient, medieval, or modern ethnic or cultural groups. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
    

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The three kings bring offerings to the infant Jesus. Engraving by N. Dorigny after C. Maratta.

An Arab sheikh smoking a hooka attended by his pipe-bearer. Coloured lithograph by Saint Germain, c. 1850, after E. Prisse.

Two Arab men standing outdoors to converse and smoke. Coloured lithograph by C. Bour, c. 1870, after E. Prisse.

French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.

People eating and drinking before a tapestry; representing the sense of taste. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, c. 1650.

Byzantium and the Arabs in the fourth century / Irfan Shahîd.

Ablutions et bains chez les Sémites / par le Dr. Beugnies.

Nafḥ al-ṭīb min ghuṣn al-Andalus al-raṭīb / taʼlīf al-shaykh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maqqarī al-Tilimsānī, ḥaqqaqahu al-duktūr Iḥsān ʻAbbās.

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Byzantium and the Arabs in the fourth century / Irfan Shahîd.

Ablutions et bains chez les Sémites / par le Dr. Beugnies.

The three kings bring offerings to the infant Jesus. Engraving by N. Dorigny after C. Maratta.

Nafḥ al-ṭīb min ghuṣn al-Andalus al-raṭīb / taʼlīf al-shaykh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maqqarī al-Tilimsānī, ḥaqqaqahu al-duktūr Iḥsān ʻAbbās.

Dardishi : issue 01.