Page 7 - Arabian Studies (II)

INTRODUCTION

In this second issue of Arabian Studies our editorial policy is again
not to confine the Journal within the boundaries of certain
individual disciplines, but to draw on the wide variety of topics that
may be studied within the Arabian Peninsula. It remains our
conviction that the specialist who opens the Journal to read an
article of relevance to his own particular studies will yet find
something in each of the other contributions to attract his attention.
Arabian Studies II may perhaps show somewhat more of a bias
towards recent history than its predecessor, but this is by accident
rather than design. The Editors continue to welcome contributions
upon any relevant topic other than contemporary politics. Articles
should be based upon original research or fieldwork, and be sent to
Middle East Centre, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue,
Cambridge, CB3 9DA. To save the Editors extra editorial work, they
would be grateful if contributors would follow the referencing
system of the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
as far as possible, and the system of transliteration of Arabic set out
below. The offer of an article to the Journal is held to imply that it
has not already been published and not simultaneously being offered
for publication elsewhere. Copyright of articles published will be
vested in the M.E.C. Contributors will receive twenty copies of their
article gratis.
The editors are happy to express their thanks to Mr Ahmad
al-Bushra for his translation of the article by H. E. Sayyid Ahmad
al-Shaml which was originally received in Arabic.