Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction; The political history of the Islamic Yemen down to the first Turkish invasion (1-945/622-1538); Yemenite history: problems and misconceptions; Ibn al-Mujawir on Dhofar and Socotra; Ibn al-Mujawir’s 7th/13th-century Arabia: the wondrous and the humorous; Ibn al-Mujawir’s 7th/13th-century guide to Arabia: the eastern connection; Some ’anthropological’ passages from Ibn al-Mujawir’s guide to Arabia and their proposed interpretations; The language of Ibn al-Mujawir’s 7th/13th-century guide to Arabia, Tarikh al-Mustabsir; Magic, jinn and the supernatural in medieval Yemen: examples from Ibn al-Mujawir’s 7th/13th-century guide; Ibn Hatim’s Kitab al-Simt and its place in medieval Yemenite historiography; Have you anything to declare? Maritime trade and commerce in Ayyubid Aden: practices and taxes; More on the port practices and taxes of medieval Aden; The Ayyubids and Rasulids: the transfer of power in 7th/13th-century Yemen; The Rasulids in Dhofar in the VIIth-VIIIth/ XIIIth-XIVth centuries; The Yemenite settlement of Tha’bat: historical, numismatic and epigraphic notes; The Tahirid sultans of the Yemen (858-923/1454-1517) and their historian Ibn al-Dayba’; Some observations on the Tahirids and their activities in and around San’a’ (858-923/1454-1517); Studies on the Tihamah; Masqat in the Arab lexicographers and geographers; The Omani manuscript collection at Muscat: a general description of the MSS; Robert Bertram Serjeant, 1915-1993; Index.