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//. E. Shay kb Abdul Rahman al-Helaissi has been Saudi Arabian Ambassador in
London since July 1966. He studied at Cairo and London Universities and has
published a book entitled The Rehabilitation of the Bedouin.
A. F. L. Beeston is Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford. He
is one of the leading scholars in the field of ancient South Arabian epigraphy and
grammar.
T. M. Johnstone is Professor of Arabic at the School of Oriental and African
Studies, London. He has published a book on Eastern Arabian dialects and
articles on Arabic dialects and linguistics. He has a book on Harsusi in the press.
R. B. Serjeant is Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arabic at Cambridge. His
interests range from pre-Islamic Arabia to modern sociology with a particular
reference to the Yemens, North and South.
J. C. Wilkinson served with Shell in Muscat. Subsequently he was awarded an
Oxford D.Phil. for a thesis entitled Arab Settlement in Oman. He is now a
lecturer in Geography at Oxford University.
G. R. Tibbetts is a librarian by profession and an authority on maps of Arabia.
He has worked in university libraries in Malaya, Nigeria and the Sudan, and is
now on the staff of the University of London Library.
Major Peter Boxhall when in the Army led expeditions to Socotra Island and
Murzuk in South Libya, and later served in Muscat and Oman. He has now left
the Army to become Director of Save the Children Fund in the Yemen Arab
Republic.
G. R. Smith, after taking a degree in Arabic at the School of Oriental and
African Studies, University of London, served in the Aden Students’ Office and
as a political officer in South Arabia. He is now assistant lecturer in Arabic at
Cambridge University.
J. H. Stevens is a lecturer in Social Sciences in the Faculty of Geography,
Durham University. He is regarded as a world authority on arid soils.
Dr Abdullah al-'Ankawi was awarded a Ph.D. at Cambridge in 1969 fora thesis
entitled The Organization and Role of the Pilgrimage during the Mamluk Period.
He is now lecturer in History at the University of Riyadh.