8vo. ix, 193 pp, maps and b&w in text photographic plates, cloth with gilt calligraphy on front cover, gilt title on spine, previous owner’s name signed on verso front cover, copy otherwise in very good condition, scheme of transliteration of Arabic, Notes, published for the Middle East centre, University of Cambridge by C. Hurst & Co, London, first edition, 1979.

Synopsis

The articles in this volume cover a wide variety of themes, mainly in the fields of history and social anthropology, with one paper on a literary topic, making it a book of multi-disciplinary interest for those specialising in the study of the Arabian Peninsula.
R.B. Serjeant is Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University and Director of the Middle East Centre. Robin Bidwell is Secretary of the Middle East Centre in Cambridge and is working on a book on ‘The Two Yemens’.