Abstract

The Arabian Situation
MacDonald, D. B. | November 8, 1917 issue

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In that situation the fundamental present fact is an antithesis between Arab and Turk. Behind lie geographical and historical elements conditioning the situation and motiving the fact. Normally in the development of civilization there has been a stage of conflict between the nomad hunter and raiser of cattle and the settled farmer and tiller of the soil. But that elsewhere transitory stage is permanent in the relation between Arabia and the surrounding more fertile countries. For this permanence there are adequate causes. Geographically and economically Saudi Arabia is a practical island separated from the rest of the world either by seas or by even more divisive barriers of sand.

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CIVILIZATION; LIVESTOCK; AGRICULTURE; SAUDI Arabia -- Economic conditions; CLASSICISM; SAUDI Arabia
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