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Introduction vii
Scheme of Transliteration of Arabic ix
Sedenterisation and Settlement of the Bedouin
Sa'id Salman Abu ‘Adhirah 1
Development or Decline of Pastoralists: the Bani Qitab
J. S. Birks 7
Temporary Marriage in pre-Islamic South Arabia
A. F. L. Bees ton 21
Bayt al-Mu’ayyad: a Late Nineteenth-Century House of
al-Bahrayn Geoffrey King 27
Qasimi Piracy and the General Treaty of Peace (1820)
Patricia Dubuisson 47
A St. George of Dhofar T. M. Johnstone 59
Early Sites of Jabal ‘Iyal Yazid Robert Wilson 67
Hakluyt’s Description of the Hajj C. F. Beckingham 75
A Turkish Report on the Red Sea and the Portuguese in the
Indian Ocean (1525) Salih Ozbaran 81
Foreign Interventions and Occupations of Kamaran Island
John Baldry 89
Architectural Terminology of the Saudi Arabian South-West
Theodore Prochazka, Jr. 113
Bibliographical Notes on European Accounts of Muscat 1500—
1900 Robin Bidwell 123
The Omani Manuscript Collection at Muscat
Part I. A general description of the MSS G. R. Smith 161
Part II. Early Ibadi Fiqh Works J. C. Wilkinson 191
COMMUNICATION
Guarding Crops against am-sibritah in North-West Yemen
Robert Wilson 209
Notes on Contributors 211