Muhammad bin Kalut

Half length portrait of Muhammad bin Kalut, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions, in the area west of the Hamrat ad Duru region.Muhammad bin Kalut, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, first joined Thesiger's party for the 1946 Salalah to Wadi Hadhramawt expedition. Son of Salim bin Kalut and half-brother to Salim bin Kabina, Muhammad bin Kalut was in his mid-twenties when he started travelling with Wilfred Thesiger (1960: 200). Amiable and easy-going, Muhammad bin Kalut joined Thesiger's 1947 Salalah to Al Mukalla expedition, the 1947–8 Second Empty Quarter Crossing, and Thesiger's 1949–50 journeys in the United Arab Emirates and Oman.

Reference

Wilfred Thesiger, 1960. Arabian Sands, Longmans, Green and Co Ltd: London.

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