(originally published as a sidebar to "What's In A Name?") BINT YAMAMA produced three foals which bred on: the full sisters NEGMA and AROUSSA by DAHMAN AL AZRAK and their three-quarters brother *NASR by DAHMAN's son RABDAN AL AZRAK. It is not certain whether NEGMA was bred by the Khedive Abbas Hilmi or by Prince Mohammed Ali; Lady Anne Blunt records BINT YAMAMA as "expecting a foal" in December …
Series: What's in a Name?
What's In A Name? Counting Doves a Century After They Hatch (part 2)
Copyright © 1998 by Michael Bowling (with particular thanks to Margaret Dickinson Fleming) originally published in Arabian Visions Oct 1998 used by permission (with added photos) After the early 1930s the BINT YAMAMA horses were universally referred to as of the Kehilan Jellabi strain. In later editions of PASB the strain of KAFIFAN was changed to Kehilan. No hint of a connection between Prince …
What's In A Name? Counting Doves a Century After They Hatch (part 1)
Copyright © 1998 By Michael Bowling (with particular thanks to Margaret Dickinson Fleming) originally published in Arabian Visions Oct 1998, used by permission (with added photos) Names in 19th-century Egypt do not appear to have been the hard-edged entities we would like them to be; Ali Pasha Sherif himself first comes to our attention, buying horses at the auction put on by the heirs of Abbas …