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This book is the fourth and final collection of Professor R.B.
Serjeant's articles on the trade, commerce and society of South
Arabia and the Yemen. The early articles concern trade; customary
law is the next subject represented with social history and one or
two incidental articles completing the volume.
This is the first English translation of the Tarikh al-Mustabsir,
written in the early quarter of the thirteenth century by Ibn
al-Mujawir. The text is a fascinating account of the western and
southern areas of the Arabian Peninsula by a man from the east of
the Islamic world, probably from Khurasan in Iran. Ibn al-Mujawir
was a man who in all probability followed the age-old Islamic
practice of making the pilgrimage to Mecca and thereafter
travelling in the area to further his business interests. His route
began in Mecca and essentially ran south through the Red Sea
coastal plain, Tihamah, down into the Yemen and along the southern
coast of the peninsula. He paused long in Aden, where he observed
closely the activities of the port to report at some length on its
administration, its taxes, its markets, its currency, its weights
and measures, and the like. His route then continued along the
southern coast of Arabia into the Gulf, and he presumably returned
home to the east via Iraq. The author is a wonderful observer of
people: their buildings, their dress, their customs, their
agriculture, their food and their history. This book is a unique
source for the social and economic history of thirteenth-century
south Arabia, written with a humour and wit otherwise unknown in
the writings of medieval Islam. The text is of major linguistic
importance too, written as it is in a far from classical Arabic.
This translation is fully annotated with an introduction,
appendices, glossary and full index, and contains maps and
illustrations.
This is the first English translation of the Tarikh al-Mustabsir,
written in the early quarter of the thirteenth century by Ibn
al-Mujawir. The text is a fascinating account of the western and
southern areas of the Arabian Peninsula by a man from the east of
the Islamic world, probably from Khurasan in Iran. Ibn al-Mujawir
was a man who in all probability followed the age-old Islamic
practice of making the pilgrimage to Mecca and thereafter
travelling in the area to further his business interests. His route
began in Mecca and essentially ran south through the Red Sea
coastal plain, Tihamah, down into the Yemen and along the southern
coast of the peninsula. He paused long in Aden, where he observed
closely the activities of the port to report at some length on its
administration, its taxes, its markets, its currency, its weights
and measures, and the like. His route then continued along the
southern coast of Arabia into the Gulf, and he presumably returned
home to the east via Iraq. The author is a wonderful observer of
people: their buildings, their dress, their customs, their
agriculture, their food and their history. This book is a unique
source for the social and economic history of thirteenth-century
south Arabia, written with a humour and wit otherwise unknown in
the writings of medieval Islam. The text is of major linguistic
importance too, written as it is in a far from classical Arabic.
This translation is fully annotated with an introduction,
appendices, glossary and full index, and contains maps and
illustrations.
This volume brings together a set of widely scattered articles
spanning some thirty years of research on early and medieval Yemen
and South Arabia. They cover the political and military history of
the area, from the beginning of Islam to the Ottoman conquest in
1517, with the establishment of the Zaydis and then the Ayyubids as
key events. Particular attention is given to the 13th century, and
questions of trade and historical geography. The work of the
traveller Ibn al-Mujawir, the subject of a series of studies, also
provides much information on the society and beliefs of the period,
including magic and sexual practices.
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New Arabian Studies Volume 5 (Hardcover)
G. Rex Smith, J.R. Smart, B.R. Pridham; Contributions by Hussein Abdullah Al-Amri, Hamid I. Al-Mazrou, …
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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, Hamid I. Al-Mazrou, W. J. Donaldson, Ali
Tigani ElMahi, Caesar E. Farah, Ulrike Freitag, David Insall, Eric
Macro and Hanne Schonig
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