Studies on Arabia in Honour of G. Rex Smith

NOTE EDITORE

This collection of essays was put together to honour a lifetime's academic achievement by Professor G. Rex Smith, arabist, historian and scholar of the medieval history of the Yemen. Written by his friends, colleagues and former students, these essays reflect his wide ranging interests in the history and culture of Arabia from the pre-Islamic era until modern times. Focusing principally on the region covered by present-day Saudi Arabia and the Yemen, the topics include epigraphy, philology, architecture, anthropology, customary law, and aspects of the history of medieval Yemen. Together these essays offer an insight into the many important aspects of research being undertaken into the rich and fascinating culture of this region.

SOMMARIO

Professor G. Rex Smith; Published works of Professor G. Rex Smith; Husayn b. Abdullah al-Amri: Muhammad (Al-Badh) b. Ahmad b. Yahya Hamid Al-Din; Abdul Rahman T. al-Ansary: Al-Gerrha, the Port of 'Qaryat' al-Fau; Paola M. Costa: The South Arabian coast and the ancient trade routes; Salma Samar Damluji: Building design in Wadi Hajr Hadramawt; William J. Donaldson: Customary law, Islamic law and Yemeni sharecropping; Walter Dostal: Al-Say'ar: A social anthropological sketch of a South Arabian tribe; John F. Healey: Nabataeo-Arabic: Jaussen-Savignac nab. 17 and 18; G. R. D. King: The Prophet Mohammad and the breaking of the Jahiliyah Idols; Moshalleh al-Moraekhi: A new perspective on the phenomenom of mirror-image writing in Arabic calligraphy; David Morray: The selection, instruction and examination of the student interpreters of the Levant consular service 1877-1916; Khaleel Al-Muaikel: Pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions from Sakakah, Saudi Arabia; Venetia Porter: The ports of the Yemen and the Indian Ocean during the Tahirid Period (1454-1517); Christian Julien Robin: Vers une meilleure connaissance de l'histoire politique et religieuse de Kaminahu; Noha Sadek: Zabid: the round city of Yemen; Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle: Une version Soqotri de la legende de Abu Sawarib; Clive Smith: Suleyman Pasha's lost opportunity in India; Yasir Suleiman: Bayan as a principle of taxonomy: linguistic elements in Jahiz's thinking; Solaiman al-Theeb: New Nabataean inscriptions from Qa al-Mu'atadel; Muhammed A. R. al-Thenayian: Two rock inscriptions relating to the Yu-firid dynasty of the Yemen; Daniel Martin Varisco: Agriculture in Rasulid Zabid; Ahmed Umar al-Zayla'i: The City of Upper Jizan in the light of the tombstone inscription dated 686/1416

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198510642
• Collana: Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement
• Dimensioni: 249 x 27.1 x 167 mm Ø 936 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: numerous halftones, line drawings and maps
• Pagine Arabe: 363