Chapter 10 Conservation of Tangible and Intangible Properties of the Tent in Jordanian Badia Wassef Al Sekhaneh The following lines of verse, attributed to Maysoun, wife of the Umayyad Caliph, Mu'awiyya (D. Chatty, 1986): A tent that flutters in the wind is more comfortable to me than a great palace. Morsel of food in the dish from my tent is tastier to me than a chunk of bread. The sound of the wind coming from all sides is more pleasant to me than the plucking of tambourine. Introduction The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is situated on the east bank of the river Jordan. It is bordered by Iraq in the east, Saudi Arabia in the south and east, Israel and the West Bank in the west and Syria in the north. (Map 1) The territory of Jordan covers about ninety two thousand square kilometers. 80 percent of the Jordanian area is arid. Most the Bedouin are settled this area (Group; IBP, 2012). Jordan is usually described as a tribal nation-state ruled by a tribal leadership dominated by tribal affiliations and loyalties. Bedouins constituted and continue to constitute a large segment of the total population. Over the years, the government and Bedouin tribes have developed a unique symbiosis. The government has depended several times on the tribes and Bedouin elements in the army to crush external as well as internal enemies. This symbiosis, however, came after a period of hostility in the early days of the nation-state (Anderson, 2009; Layne, 1994; Massad, 2001; Shryock, 1997; Wilson, 1990; Zein, 2006). This article will describe the relationship between the Bedouins and their environment in the Jordanian state. This starts from their dwellings of the Bedouin’s tent to stone house. It concentrates on the concept of the Bedouin traditional tent as a form of architecture and social space, which has become a quite complex choice in the changing social and cultural context of the Bedouin in Jordan. The aim of this research is to study the socio-cultural anthropological contexts of the Tent as intangible, which generates and defines the tangible importance parameters in which people in Jordanian Bedouins are organized their lives and their houses, and to explore to what extent anthropological concepts apply to these data through the whole meaning of the tent, both substantial and insubstantial to conserve culture and nature of the tent, both definition are spatially and temporally cannot be separated, they are doped and overlapped. The concept of intangibility become tremendously significant in heritage studies, particularly concerning intangible practices and debates over authenticity (Churchill, 2006), (Silverman, 2011). The concepts of tangible and intangible heritage are intimately linked. Intangible heritage has received much recent attention with the passage of UNESCO’s Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Heritage in 2003 (Ruggles, 2009a).