Contents: Review notice "Arabian Diversions: Studies on the
Dialects of Arabia", Bruce Ingham; some notes on two Yemeni
contemporary documents, Hussain al-Amri; the ibex hunt in the rock
art of Oman, Ali Tigani ElMahi; smuggling and international
politics in the Red Sea in the late Ottoman period, Caesar E.
Farah; wise man control wasteful women - documents on "customs and
traditions" in the Kathiri state archives, Say'un, Ulrike Freitag;
four English artists at Aden 1839-1847, Eric Macro; the small
long-handled axes of Oman, David Insall; erythraean ichthyophagi -
Arabian fish eaters observed, W.J. Donaldson; the canon and
proportion of pre-Islamic Arabian sculptures, Hamid I. Mazroo.
G. Rex Smith is retired and was previously Professor of Arabic,
University of Manchester. B.R. Pridham is the former Director of
the Centre for Arab Gulf Studies, University of Exeter. J.R. Smart
is retired and was previously a lecturer in Arabic, University of
Exeter
"The standard is high and the spread impressive . . . Anyone
concerned with Arabia will find things of interest here." Asian
Affairs "The contributions are consistent in their scholarly level
and the editors deserve congratulation on their judicious choice of
material for inclusion." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and
African Studies
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