1920-22 Draft of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom – Page 11

Bigamy appears among nomads in Syria as a
way to increase their population more rapidly. With a
pious Muslim it occurs less frequently than polyandry,
which is an economic (or natural) expedient to support one
wife among two or three contributing contributive husbands.
Each husband is supreme in his turn for a week or a month at
a time.

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