Author: Annalisa
Comment:
Lady Anne Blunt's 1909 Sheykh Obeyd catalog entry for Sabáh describes Rabda as "the original mare Kehileh Rabdieh brought from Arabia by Ibn Bassam. " According to the Abbas Pasha manuscript [1993, p615] "...she is Kuhayla 'Ajuz. And the reason for her being named Rabda is that her original ra'i, who is of the first ones who have no peers, while riding her felled a rabda [wild ostrich]..." (Source: Al Khamsa)
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Comment:
Lady Anne Blunt's 1909 Sheykh Obeyd catalog entry for Sabáh describes Rabda as "the original mare Kehileh Rabdieh brought from Arabia by Ibn Bassam. " According to the Abbas Pasha manuscript [1993, p615] "...she is Kuhayla 'Ajuz. And the reason for her being named Rabda is that her original ra'i, who is of the first ones who have no peers, while riding her felled a rabda [wild ostrich]..." (Source: Al Khamsa)
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