Arabian Studies II.

Serjeant, R. B. & R. L. Bidwell (Editors).

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Book ID: 10159

ISBN:      0903983400

£40.00

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8vo. [4], 214 pp., photographs, green cloth, slightly faded, previous owner’s name inscribed verso front & lower cover, three ink markings on Contents page, otherwise copy clean and in very good condition, C. Husrt & Company, Published for The Middle East Center, University of Cambridge, 1975.

Synopsis

Subjects discussed covers: Scheme of Transliteration of Arabic, Oath-taking and vows in Oman, Memoirs and Impressions of the Arabia of Ibn Saud, Two South-Arabian Tribes: al-Qara and Al-Harasis, Yemeni literature, the authority of Shaykhs in the Gulf, the powers and mineral concessions in the Idrisi Imamate of Asir 1910-1929, some notes on hunting techniques and practices in the Arabian Peninsula, Some effects of irrigated agriculture on soil characteristics in Ras al-Khaimah, Changes in the economy and political attitudes, and the development in culture on Coast of Oman between 1900 and 1940, and The first days of British Aden.

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