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SAUDI ARABIAN EMBASSY
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FOREWORD
by
His Excellency the Saudi Arabian Ambassador
Sheikh Abdulrahman Al-Helaissi

I read with great interest the manuscript of the new
journal, ARABIAN STUDIES. It is interesting to see the line
the Journal has taken in bringing to the reader certain
subjects about which there is nothing known, or very little,
and I admire the work of the scholars who have contributed.
One would have to have more knowledge of these subjects
than is at my disposal to appreciate fully the Journal’s
contribution in the fields of history, society and trade.
I can only say that the ordinary scholar and research worker
will find the articles of great value, and they have been
written by such eminent professors that the reader in the
Middle Last, whoever he ip, a professor, scholar or an
educated person will find great knowledge for himself as
well as useful material for students in colleges or uni­
versities in the Middle East. I welcome it, too, as an
attempt to increase knowledge of Arabia and to brine subjects
concerned with the Peninsula to students in the West. Few
have properly realised the great understanding that we, the
Arabs, acquired of agriculture or of sea-faring. I am
pleased also to find that a scholar of Riyadh University
has been invited to contribute to the Journal.
I praise the work done to bring such a Journal as this
into being and only hope that it wilL continue to be published.
I wish the authors and editors every success.

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(Abdulrahman Al-Helaissi)
Ambassador.