Pre-Islamic Arabian tribal battles resembled sport more than lethal warfare.
Evidence
(Reading the Ayya¯m al-‘Arab, I am irresistibly reminded of American football: there is the same element of sport, and one has the impression that the battles recorded in the Ayya¯m al-‘Arab were only slightly more dangerous to life and limb than American football.) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1927
Categorization
- CANDY: A light, tweetable comparison — pre-Islamic Arabian tribal wars likened to American football, more ritualized sport than slaughter.
- XREF: connects to: Pre-Islamic Arabian battles resembled ritualized sport more than war — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1927
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Pre-Islamic Arabian battles resembled ritualized sport more than war — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1927
Broader Connections
- Pre-Islamic Arabian battles resembled ritualized sport more than war
#corroborates(1.00) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1927