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Edited by Doreen and Leila Ingrams
16 volumes. Archive Editions, 1993
The editors have brought together, in sixteen very handsome volumes, all the official English-language archives which have survived white ants and theft over the years and which are now housed in the India Office Library and…
by Fred Halliday
Reprint by Saqi Books, 2002. Pp. 540. Illus. Maps. Figures. Index. Pb. £17.95. ISBN 0-86356-381-3.
Does the cover say it all? The original paperback of Professor Halliday’s Arabia without Sultans — as I remember it — featured a caricature of an Arabian shaikh (cruelly resembling…
Cliff Lord and David Birtles
Helion & Company (26 Willow Road, Solihull, West Midlands B91 1UE), 2000. Pp. 112. Illus. Appendices. Maps. Glossary. Index. Bibliog. Hb. £29.95. ISBN 1 874622 40 x
At first sight the price seems somewhat daunting for what is a very slim volume of little over 100…
by Muhsin al-Aini
Dar al-Nahar, Beirut, 2000. Arabic. Pp. 367. Illus. Pb. £16. 90 (available from Al Saqi Bookshop, 26 Westbourne Grove, London W2 SRH). ISBN 2-84289-296-8.
Muhsin al-Aini, born in 1932 in a village a few miles from Sana’a and orphaned at the age of seven, rose from humble…
by Roxani Eleni Margariti
The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. xiii + 343. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Figures. Maps. Tables. Illus. Hb. £39.50. ISBN 978-0-8078-3076-5.
This is an enjoyable book, very well produced (good paper, quality binding, fine graphics). It is very readable and…
by Sheila Unwin
Arabian Publishing, London, 2006. Foreword by Sir Terence Clark. Illus. Glossary. Bibliog. Appendices. Index. Maps. Hb. £25. ISBN-10: 0-9544792-6-2.
This book is a treasure. Its pages conjure up a dreamlike procession of exotic places, objects and memories.
Brassbound and decorated…
Arabian Peninsula: An Account of operations in the Dhala Region April 19 – June 2 1958 by David Gwynne-James, Chiltime Publishing Ltd, Beaconsfield, 2008. Maps. Appendices. Bibliog. Illus. A4 Pb. £7. 50. ISBN 978-0-946367-09-2. (Available from Shropshire Regimental Museum: email: shropsrm@zoom.co.…
by Anthony Miller and Miranda Morris
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2004. Pp.776. Illus. Indices. Appendices. Maps. Hb. £75. ISBN 1-872229-159-7.
Over a hundred years ago the British botanist I. B. Balfour collected 5–600 specimens of flowering plants on Socotra and published his Botany of…
Salma Samar Damluji
Garnet Publishing
Dr. Samar Damluji is clearly a serious scholar, but this is not a seriously academic book only for academics.
It is a pictorial exultation, a love affair with the architecture, the people and the landscape of the southern Yemen. Geographically and stylistically…
by Jenny Balfour-Paul
Curzon £45. ISBN 0 7007 0373 X
‘Indigo’ is one of those evocative words, like ‘silk’ and ‘spice’, that conjure up distant places and exotic trade. Jenny Balfour-Paul’s enthusiasm for this dyestuff has led her to spend years of research and fieldwork unravelling its mystique.…
ARAB ART ONLINE: Susan Hefuna: Al Sabr Gamil (Patience is Beautiful) 2007. Ink stained on wood 140 x 170 cm. More information | Click to enlarge
