New Arabian Studies Volume 3

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B. R. Pridham, J. R. Smart, G. Rex Smith
University of Exeter Press, 1996 - History - 210 pages

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. It provides authoritative information intended to appeal to both the specialist and general reader. Both the traditional and the modern aspects of Arabia are covered, excluding contemporary controversial politics.

Contributions by
Hussein Abdullah al-Amri, Sami al-Sakkar, Ahmad 'Umar Al-Zayla'i, Charles Beckingham, Paolo M. Costa, W. J. Donaldson, Walter Dostal, Paul Dresch, Ronald E. Kon, H. T. Norris, Venetia Porter, Mikhail Rodionov, Jacques Ryckmans, Avihai Shivtiel, J.R. Smart, Clive Smith, G. Rex Smith, Yasir Suleiman and Daniel Martin Varisco

 

Contents

The Correspondence of Imam Yaḥyā Ḥamid alDin with the Tribes
1
from Samarra to Northern Sicily
14
Observations on Measures of Capacity in Presentday
33
Bibliography of Robert Bertram Serjeant
69
The Sad Fate of Bishr and Hind and the Diffusion of an Ancient
79
Coins and Money in the Tahirid Period
112
The Old South Arabian socalled Bulawayo Stone
134
Women in Arabic Proverbs from Yemen
164
The Establishment of the British Council in the Yemen Arab
192
More on the Port Practices and Taxes of Medieval Aden
208
Water Sources and Traditional Irrigation in Yemen
238
A Kufic Inscription from Hamdanah in Southern Hijaz Referring
258
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