Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 33 2003

Edited by Michael C.A. Macdonald

Book cover: Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 33 2003

Extent: 374 pages

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing

Subjects: Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies

Series: Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(July 2003)

ISBN: 9780953992348

8.11 x 10.04 inches

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Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 2002.


THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF OMAN AND THE GULF ;

Peter Magee, New chronometric data defining the Iron Age II period in south-eastern Arabia ;

Vincent Charpentier, Philippe Marquis & Éric Pellé, La nécropole et les derniers horizons Ve millénaire du site de Gorbat al-Mahar (Suwayh, SWY–1, Sultanat d'Oman) : premiers résultats ;

Jutta Häser, Archaeological results of the 1999 and 2000 survey campaigns in Wadi Bani Awf and the region of al-Hamra (Central Oman) ;

Cécile Monchablon, Rémy Crassard, Olivia Munoz, Hervé Guy, Gaëlle Bruley-Chabot & Serge Cleuziou, Excavations at Ra’s al-Jinz RJ–1: stratigraphy without tells ;

Tom Vosmer, The Magan Boat Project: a process of discovery, a discovery of process ;

Anne Benoist, Michel Mouton & Jeremie Schiettecatte, The artefacts from the fort at Mleiha: distribution, origins, trade and dating ;

Ali Tigani ElMahi & Moawiyah Ibrahim, Two seasons of investigations at Manal site in the Wadi Samayil area, Sultanate of Oman ;

Soumyen Bandyopadhyay & Magda Sibley, The distinctive typology of central Omani mosques: its nature and antecedents ;

Caesar E. Farah, Anglo-Ottoman confrontation in the Persian Gulf in the late 19th and early 20th centuries ;

COMPARATIVE WATER SYSTEMS ;

Miquel Barceló, Julián Ortega, Arcadi Piera & Josep Torró, The Search for the Hararah asdād in the area of Zafār, Governorate of Ibb, Yemen ;

Helena Kirchner, Ma’jil: a type of hydraulic system in Yemen and in al-Andalus? ;

THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF PRE-ISLAMIC YEMEN ;

T.J. Wilkinson, The organization of settlement in highland Yemen during the Bronze and Iron Ages ;

Frank Braemer, Serge Cleuziou & Tara Steimer, Dolmen-like structures: some unusual funerary monuments in Yemen ;

William D. Glanzman, An examination of the building campaign of YadaΚΜil Dharīh bin Sumhu’alay, mukarrib of Saba’, in light of recent archaeology ;

Jean-François Breton, Preliminary notes on the development of Shabwa ;

Christian Darles, Les fortifications de Shabwa, capitale du royaume de Hadramawt ;

Jan Retsö, When did Yemen become Arabia felix? ;

The epigraphy of pre-Islamic Yemen ;

Joseph L. Daniels, Landscape graffiti in the Dhamār Plains and its relation to mountain-top religious practice ;

Serguei A. Frantsouzof, The Hadramitic funerary inscription from the cave-tomb at al-Rukbah (Wādī Ghabr, Inland Hadramawt) and burial ceremonies in ancient Hadramawt ;

Peter Stein, The inscribed wooden sticks of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich ;

Mohammed Maraqten, Some notes on Sabaic epistolography ;

YEMEN IN THE ISLAMIC PERIOD ;

A. Rougeulle, Excavations at Sharmah, Hadramawt the 2001 and 2002 seasons ;

Noha Sadek, a’izz, capital of the Rasulid dynasty in Yemen ;

ETHNOGRAPHY IN YEMEN ;

Vitaly Naumkin & Victor Porkhomovsky, Oral poetry in the Soqotran socio-cultural context. The case of the ritual song The girl and the jinn ;

Miranda Morris, The Soqotra Archipelago: concepts of good health and everyday remedies for illness ;

Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper, Children's attire in early 20th-century San’ā’ as a socio-cultural paradigm.

  • Edited by Michael C.A. Macdonald