Modern Society & Culture
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Ihlal al-Salam fi Hadhramaut (Establishing Peace in Hadhramaut) [Paperback]
'Abd al-'Aziz bin Ali bin Salah Al-Qu'aiti (Author)
$100.00ISBN: 9780955889417
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
This book, in Arabic, describes a crucial episode in Yemeni history, during which tribal feuding was brought to an end. The Hadhramaut region, by the 1930s under British tutelage as part of the Eastern Aden Protectorate, comprised a patchwork of t... .... Learn More -
Bedouin Weaving of Saudi Arabia and its Neighbours [Hardback]
Joy Totah Hilden (Author)
$120.00ISBN: 9780955889400
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Portable and practical, tough and colourful, Bedouin textiles played until recent times a vital and functional part in the life of the Arab nomads. Bedouin women were expected to master the art of making entire tents as well as a wide range of rug... .... Learn More -
Bedouin Weaving of Saudi Arabia and its Neighbours [Paperback]
Joy Totah Hilden (Author)
$70.00ISBN: 9780955889486
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Portable and practical, tough and colourful, Bedouin textiles played until recent times a vital and functional part in the life of the Arab nomads. Bedouin women were expected to master the art of making entire tents as well as a wide range of rug... .... Learn More -
Sons of Sinbad: The Photographs: The Photographs [Paperback]
Alan Villiers (Author)
$70.00ISBN: 9780954479251
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Alan Villiers (1903-82) was a renowned Australian sailor, writer and photographer. Originally published in 1940, Sons of Sindbad is his account of sailing with the Arabs in their dhows in southern Arabia, along the East African coast and in the Ar... .... Learn More -
Yes, (Saudi) Minister! A Life in Administration [Hardback]
Ghazi Algosaibi (Author)
$40.00ISBN: 9781900404174
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Born into a leading merchant family in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, Dr Algosaibi not only experienced but, as a government minister, played a leading part in the Kingdom's rapid modernisation during the 1970s and 1980s.
In this administra... .... Learn More -
Pearling in the Arabian Gulf: A Kuwaiti Memoir [Hardback]
Saif Marzooq Al-Shamlan (Author)
$50.00ISBN: 9781900404198
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Born in Kuwait in 1926, into a distinguished Kuwaiti family of pearl merchants and seafarers, Saif Marzooq al- Shamlan describes the final generation of the pearling industry from 1900 to the slump of the 1930s, when the development of the Japanes... .... Learn More -
Sabah al-Salim Al-Sabah, Amir of Kuwait, 1965-77: A Political Biography [Hardback]
Robert L. Jarman (Author)
$60.00ISBN: 9781900404211
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
This biography of Sabah al-Salim Al- Sabah assesses his contribution to the political history of Kuwait. Relying on documents from the British and US archives, as well as frank reminiscences of former colleagues within Kuwait, it covers his entire... .... Learn More -
Sheba Revealed: A Posting to Bayhan in the Yemen [Hardback]
Nigel Groom (Author)
$50.00ISBN: 9781900404310
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
During the late 1940s, British governance of the Western Aden Protectorate was being tentatively extended by a handful of hardy officials whose reputation for incorruptibility and even-handedness went before them.
Of these the young Nigel Gro... .... Learn More -
Kuwait: The Growth of a Historic Identity [Hardback]
BJ Slot (Editor)
$60.00ISBN: 9780954479213
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Five experts in the field - Dr B. J. Slot, Dr Ulrich W. Haarmann, Prof. G. Bondarevsky, Dr Richard Schofield and Dr Suhail Shuhaiber - explore the historical, political and social processes governing the birth, survival, prosperity and ultimate so... .... Learn More -
The Birth of the Islamic Reform Movement in Saudi Arabia: Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703/4-1792) and the Beginnings of Unitarian Empire in Arabia [Hardback]
George S. Rentz (Author); William Facey (Editor)
$50.00ISBN: 9780954479220
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Current troubles in the middle east have focused much international attention on Saudi Arabia. However, little has been published in English on the background to its culture and its roots in the First Saudi State that arose in 18th-century Najd (c... .... Learn More