8vo. 216 pp., photographs, 1 map, original green cloth, previous owner’s name inscribed verso front & back cover, 4 ink inscriptions on contents page, otherwise copy clean and in very good condition, published for the Middle East Centre, University of Cambridge, Scorpion Communications, London, 1982.

Synopsis

Subjects discussed in this issue covers: Al-Hudaydah and the Powers during the Saudi Yemeni war of 1934, Kawkaban: Some of its history, tibal structures in South Oman, the commercial history of the Hijaz Vilayat, 1840-1908, village communities in Bilad Rufaydah, observations on the architectural terminology of the South-West of the Arabian Peninsula, Some examples of the secular architecture in Najd, sanitation and security: the Imperial Powers and the Nineteenth Century Hajj, the Ikhwan Movement of Central Arabia, the Turkish attack on Aden 1915-1918, and other related subjects on the Arabian Peninsula.