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John F. Healey,Venetia Porter
A collection of essays written in honour of Professor G. Rex Smith, arabist, historian, and scholar of the medieval history of the Yemen, on aspects of the pre-Islamic and Islamic…
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G. Rex Smith
This volume comprises 20 studies in English relating to the political, social and economic history and culture of the Yemen and Oman, particularly in the early and medieval periods.
An English translation of the Tarikh al-Mustabsir , written in the early quarter of the thirteenth century by Ibn al-Mujawir. This text is an account of the western and southern…
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The latest of the 39 volumes in the translation of al-Tabari’s monumental 10th-century history of the Middle East. Covers the short reign (A.D. 809-813) of Mohammed al-Amin, totally occupied with…
G.Rex Smith
A major source for the medieval economic and social history of the Yemen in particular and of the Middle East in general. Of relevance to European medieval economic history.
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R.B. Serjeant,G. Rex Smith
This book is the fourth and final collection of Professor R.B. Serjeant’s articles on the trade, commerce and society of South Arabia and the Yemen. The early articles concern trade…
James Conway Davies
In 1946 and 1948, James Conway Davies published volumes one and two of his Episcopal Acts and Cognate Documents Relating to Welsh Dioceses 1066-1272. These volumes included over 400 pages…
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Pierre Loti
From April to June 1900, Pierre Loti travelled in a private capacity from Bushire on the Persian Gulf, northwards through Shiraz, Persepolis, Isfahan and Tehran, before returning via the Caspian…
First English translation of La Galilee, an account of Pierre Loti’s travels in the Holy Land from Jerusalem to Beirut, via Damascus and many other interesting places, in 1894. Volume…
Pierre Loti, Samuel Viaud
This is the first translation of three accounts by Pierre Loti (1850-1923) of his visits to Constantinople: a description of his brief visit in 1890; of his stay in 1910…
New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion.
