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Introduction vii
Scheme of Transliteration of Arabic ix
The Identification of the Wadi ’l-Qura and the ancient
Islamic Site of al-Mibyat Abdullah A. Nasif 1
Lieutenant Wyburd’s Journal of an Excursion into Arabia
Penelope Tuson 21
The British Government and the Khurmah Dispute,
1918-1919 Daniel Silverfarb 37
Mathematical Astronomy in mediaeval Yemen David King 61
Water Resources and Agriculture in Qatar John G. Pike 67
The Yemeni Poet Al-Zubayri and his Polemic against
the Zaydi Imams R. B. Serjeant 87
British Financial Advisers in Muscat during the
Interwar Period John Peterson 131
William Leveson Gower in the Yemen, 1903 Eric Macro 141
The Political Residents of Aden: Biographical Notes
Robin Bid well 149
Womens’ Inheritance of Land in Highland Yemen
Martha Mundy 161
Communication
Regular and permanent Markets in the San‘a’ Region
Robert Wilson 189
Notes on contributors 193
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