New Arabian Studies Volume 3

Contents: The correspondence of Iman Yahya Hamid al-Din with the tribes of Eastern and Southern Yemen - a rare and unpublished document, Dr Hussayn 'Abd Allah al-'Amri; the Arabian travels of Johann Wild, Professor C.H. Beckingham; early Islamic painting - from Samarra to Northern Sicily, Professor P.M. Costa; observations on measures of capacity in present-day northern Yemen, Dr W.J. Donaldson; the special features of the Yemeni weekly market system - an attempt at an anthropological interpretation, Professor Dr Walter Dostal; a letter from Imam Yahya concerning the Idrisi, Dr Paul Dresch; smuggling and international politics in the Red Sea in the late Ottoman period, Professor Caesar E. Farah; bibliography of Robert Bertram Serjeant, Dr R.E. Kon; the sad fate of Bishr and Hind and the diffusion - an ancient Arabian love story, Professor H.T. Norris; coins and money in the Tahirid period, Dr Venetia Porter; poetry and power in Hadramawt - homage to Bob Serjeant, Professor Mikhail Rodinov; the old south Arabian so-called Bulawayo stone (CIF 458) recovered, Professor Jacques Rychmans; the birth of an archaeological journal in the Middle East - reminiscence and comments, Dr Sami Al-Sakkar; women in Arabic proverbs from Yemen, Dr Avihai Shivtiel; the establishment of the British Council in the Yemen Arab republic 1973-78, Clive Smith; more on the port practices and taxes of mediaeval Aden, Professor G. Rex Smith; review notice of Paulo Costa, "studies in Arabian architecture", Professor G. Rex Smith; the concept of "fasahah" in Ibn Sinan al-Khafaji, Professor Yasir Suleiman; water source and traditional irrigation in Yemen, Dr Daniel Martin Varisco; a Kufic inscription from Hamdanah in southern Hijaz referring to Amir Ibrahim b.Ziyad, Professor Ahmad 'Umar al-Zayla 'i.

"The cement that holds this wonderful, widely diverse collection together is the superb editorial treatment: transliteration and transcription from the Arabic uniformly accurate; the English context soundly standardized and regularized, and the illustrative material clearly reproduced." (Journal of Semitic Studies, Vol. XLIII, No. 1, Spring 1998)