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Living to Some Purpose: Memoirs of a Secular Iraqi and Arab Statesman [Hardback]
Adnan Pachachi (Author); Peter Sluglett (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780957106031
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
OFTEN DESCRIBED as Iraq’s elder statesman, Dr Adnan Pachachi has enjoyed one of the longest and most distinguished political careers of modern times, both domestically and on the world stage.
In a life spanning ni... .... Learn More -
The Principles of Arab Navigation [Hardback]
William Facey (Editor); Anthony R. Constable (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9780957106017
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Throughout History, the Indian Ocean has been a zone of interaction between far-flung civilizations served by ports, and connected with the Mediterranean by the Gulf and Red Sea. The shows that were the vehicles of commercial and ... .... Learn More -
Sea of Pearls: Seven Thousand Years of the Industry that Shaped the Gulf [Hardback]
Robert A Carter (Author)
£95.00ISBN: 9780957106000
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Since Antiquity the natural pearls of the Gulf have been famed as the finest, most lustrous and most plentiful that the world can offer. From the beginnings of trade until the 1930s, these pearls were a major product of the Gulf's coastal peoples.... .... Learn More -
Encountering Islam: Joseph Pitts: An English Slave in 17th-century Algiers and Mecca [Hardback]
Paul Auchterlonie (Author)
£48.00ISBN: 9780955889493
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Long before European empires came to dominate the Middle East, Britain was brought face to face with Islam through the activities of the Barbary corsairs. For three centuries after 1500, Muslim ships based in North African ports terrorized Europea... .... Learn More -
Seen in the Yemen: Travelling with Freya Stark and Others [Hardback]
Hugh Leach (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9780955889455
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Yemen is justly famed as one of the world's most dramatically beautiful countries. Seen in the Yemen brings the people, architecture and landscapes of this ancient culture alive to the reader through the medium of the author's remarkable black-and... .... Learn More -
Dubai High: A Culture Trip [Paperback]
Michael Schindhelm (Author); Aurore Belkin (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780955889479
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
In early 2007, writer and theatre director Michael Schindhelm was appointed by the Dubai authorities as consultant on a projected opera house, and in early 2008 found himself with a broader remit as director of the newly founded Dubai Culture and ... .... Learn More -
Sons of Sindbad [Paperback]
William Facey (Author); Yacoub Al-Hijji (Author); Grace Pundyk (Author); Alan Villiers (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780955889462
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Alan Villiers (1903-82), the Australian sailor and maritime historian, first made a name for himself as an adventurer in the 1920s and 1930s by combining his seafaring skills with his talent as a pioneering photojournalist. He visited Arabia in 19... .... Learn More -
Kuwait and the Sea: A Brief Social and Economic History [Hardback]
Yacoub Yusuf Al-Hijji (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9780955889448
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Though inhabited for millennia, Kuwait began to emerge as an Arab shaikhdom relatively late. Entering the historical record during the early 18th century as a junction of caravan and sea routes, it quickly grew to be a commercial rival to Basra at... .... Learn More -
Roads to Nowhere: A South Arabian Odyssey, 1960-1965 [Hardback]
John Harding (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9780955889424
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Today part of the Republic of Yemen, Aden has long passed from British consciousness. Yet it was Queen Victoria's first imperial acquisition and, for 128 years, a vitally important British strategic base and commercial staging post. In the immedia... .... Learn More -
Pilgrimage to Mecca [Paperback]
Lady Evelyn Cobbold (Author); William Facey (Author); Miranda Taylor (Author); Ahmad S. Turkistani (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780955889431
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
As the first British woman convert to Islam on record as making the pilgrimage to Mecca and visiting Medina, Lady Evelyn Cobbold (1867- 1963) cuts a unique figure in the annals of the Muslim Hajj.
Anglo-Scottish aristocrat and landowner, Evel... .... Learn More