Modern Society & Culture
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Sons of Sindbad [Hardback]
William Facey (Author); Yacoub Al-Hijji (Author); Grace Pundyk (Author); Alan Villiers (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780954479237
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 -
Mubarak Al-Sabah: Founder of Modern Kuwait, 1896-1915 [Hardback]
B. J. Slot (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9780954479244
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
In the is political life of Mubarak Al-Sabah, ruler of Kuwait from 1896 to 1915, B. J. Slot examines his career in unsurpassed detail, analysing its significance and presenting a balanced assessment of the man and his achievement. In doing so, he ... .... 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)
£25.00ISBN: 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 -
Kuwait: The Growth of a Historic Identity [Hardback]
BJ Slot (Editor)
£30.00ISBN: 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 -
A Soldier's Story: From Ottoman Rule to Independent Iraq: The Memoirs of Jafar Al-Aksari [Hardback]
Jafar Pasha Al-Aksari (Author); Mustafa Tariq Al-Aksari (Editor)
£25.00ISBN: 9780954479206
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Born in Iraq in 1885, Jafar Pasha Al-Askari played a colourful part in the events that led to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, and in the foundation of modern Iraq in the 1920s and 1930s. These memoirs, published in E... .... Learn More -
Sabah al-Salim Al-Sabah, Amir of Kuwait, 1965-77: A Political Biography [Hardback]
Robert L. Jarman (Author)
£29.50ISBN: 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)
£24.95ISBN: 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 -
The Art of Dhow-building in Kuwait [Hardback]
Ya'qub Yusuf Al-Hijji (Author)
£39.50ISBN: 9781900404280
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Ever since Kuwait emerged in the 18th century as a young maritime state with an extreme dependence on the sea, it has been renowned for the consummate skills of its sailors and dhow-builders.
Kuwait's shipwrights became justly famed for the b... .... Learn More -
Pearling in the Arabian Gulf: A Kuwaiti Memoir [Hardback]
Saif Marzooq Al-Shamlan (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 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 -
Yes, (Saudi) Minister! A Life in Administration [Hardback]
Ghazi Algosaibi (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 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