Author: Bidwell, R. L. ; Smith, G. R. ; & Smart, J. R. ; editors :
Title: New Arabian Studies : 2
Description: Exeter [UK], University of Exeter Press, 1994. orig. boards. 24x16cm, ix,200 pp.. ISBN: 0859894525. Name on flyleaf. Minor wear. VG. ¶ Contents: European Travellers in Oman and Southeast Arabia 1792-1950: A Biobibliographical Study [Brian Marshall]; Arabia and Austria in the 18th and 19th Centuries [Eric Macro]; A Note on the Tarkabah and the Omani Boiled Date Trade [W.J. Donaldson]; Recruitment and Regulation: Migration for Employment of 'Adenese' Seamen in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries [R.I. Lawless]; Al-Hadi Yahya b. al-Husayn b. al-Qasim (245-98/859-911): A Biographical Introduction and the Background and Significance of his Imamate [A.B.D.R. Eagle]; The Ibex Hunt Ceremony in Hadramawt Today [M. Rodionov]; Military Organization of the Wahhabi Amirates (1750-1932) [Jerzy Zdanowski]; The Rashidi Dynasty: Political Centralization among the Shammar of North Arabia [Madawi Al-Rasheed]; Some Trends of Evolution of the Sabaean Cultural-Political Area: From Clan Titles to Clan Names? [Andrey Korotayev]; The Text of an Unpublished Fatwa of the Scholar al-Maqbali (d. 1108/1728) Concerning the Legal Position of the Batiniyyah (Isma'iliyyah) of the People of Hamdan [Husayn 'Abdallah al-'Amri]; The Making of Palm Vinegar at al-Hiswah (near Aden) and some other Crafts Related to Palm Trees [Martine Vanhove]; Aloe and Dragon's Blood, some Medicinal and Traditional Uses on the Island of Socotra [Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle].

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