Siberia
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
سيبيريا
in the texts
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
The Russian territory to which criminals were transported and, the passage claims, often reformed through labor.
and it generally happens that the criminals sent to Siberia in time become honest people.
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
Northern Asian region named among the places with traces of totemism.
In Asia it has a trace in central India among some of the non-Aryan tribes of Bengal, and in Siberia, and some quarters of China, and the islands of the ocean — and most of these tribes have been brought by the scholars under totemism by analogy, because they hold certain animals or plants sacred even though they do not name themselves after them.