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Arabia Catalogue ARABIA CATALOGUE Arabian Publishing Ltd 4 B LOOMSBURY PLACE , L ONDON WC1A 2QA TEL . 020 7580 8456 • E MAIL : [email protected] Arabian Publishing Ltd The Principles of 4 Bloomsbury Place, London WC1A 2QA Tel. 020 7580 8456 Arab Navigation Email: [email protected] Edited by Anthony R. Constable and William Facey Trade distribution ISBN: 978-0-9571060-1-7 Hardback, jacket • Middle East representation 160 pages; 258 x 200 mm Oxbow Books Colour throughout; 11 maps 10 Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford, OX1 2EW, UK Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, Index www.oxbowbooks.com Publication: February 2013 Email: [email protected] Price: £35.00 Tel. 01865 241249 Fax 01865 794449 Subject areas: Sailing ships; Dhows; Maritime history; Navigation; • United States and North America Astronomy; Arabian Peninsula; Arab World; Arab seafaring; Order from: Indian Ocean; Red Sea The David Brown Book Company PO Box 511 (28 Main Street), Oakville, CT 06779, USA www.oxbowbooks.com/home.cfm/Location/DBBC HROUGHOUT HISTORY , the Indian Ocean Drawing on source material such as the Email: [email protected] Thas been a zone of interaction between far- guides written by the renowned southern Toll-free: 800 791 9354 flung civilizations, connected with the Mediter- Arabian navigators Ahmad ibn Majid and Tel. (860) 945-9329 ranean by the Gulf and Red Sea. The dhows Sulayman al-Mahri in the 15th and 16th cent- Fax (860) 945-9468 that were the vehicles of commercial and uries AD , as well as surviving logbooks of dhow cultural exchange over this vast expanse of captains in the early 20th, the authors cover the • UK, Europe and Rest of the World ocean ranged from small craft rarely venturing principal ideas, techniques, instruments and Order from: out of sight of land, to cargo vessels carrying calculations used, deploying astronomy, geo- Oxbow Books navigators skilled in the art of deep-sea sailing. metry and mathematics to explain their 10 Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford, OX1 2EW, UK These Arab, Persian and Indian seamen used methods. It includes an account of a practical Email: [email protected] the seasonal monsoon winds, and applied attempt in 2010 to apply these methods on an Tel. 01865 241249 navigational techniques that relied on their adventurous voyage from Muscat to Singapore Fax 01865 794449 ability to read the stars in the night sky – skills in a reconstructed early medieval dhow, and that had developed down the generations from concludes with an analysis of sailing conditions time immemorial. in the Red Sea. About Arabian Publishing This stellar navigation, based on measuring the altitude of the Pole Star to establish latitude Arabian Publishing Ltd is a niche publisher based in central London, and on the risings and settings of certain stars to focusing on the Arabian Peninsula countries and related regions and topics. find direction, grew into a complex art, belying AP books are researched, edited, designed and produced to the highest the simplicity of the instruments used. Bringing standards, to appeal to both scholars and general readers. together six scholars specializing in the maritime history and culture of the Arabs, this AP also carries out research programmes into documentary and book makes a new and vital contribution to photographic sources relating to Arabian history and culture. the study of a nautical culture that has hitherto For further information, email William Facey not received its due share of attention, and at [email protected] which is vital to an understanding of Indian Ocean history. Sea of Pearls Seven Thousand Years of the Industry that Shaped the Gulf by Robert A. Carter ISBN: 978-0-9571060-0-0 330 x 245 mm, hardback, jacketed xx + 364 pages 338 colour and b/w photographs 26 maps, 32 tables and charts Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, Index Publication: August 2012 Retail price: £95.00 Subject areas: Arabian/Persian Gulf; Gulf States; Arabian Peninsula; Arab world; Arab and Persian maritime history; Iran; Middle Eastern history; Middle Eastern archaeology; Pearls; Gemstones; Jewellery INCE ANTIQUITY the natural pearls of the Lavishly illustrated, it covers in unpreced- SGulf have been famed as the finest, most ented detail the history, development, conduct, lustrous and most plentiful in the world. From florescence and catastrophic collapse of the the beginnings of trade till the 1930s, they were industry in the early 20th century. It will a major product of the Gulf’s coastal peoples. fascinate not only those wishing to understand From the 17th to the early 20th centuries, rising the growth and conduct of the pearl fishery, but demand turned pearling into their economic also those interested in the history of the region mainstay. By this time pearls were fished in their and the origins of the Gulf states, and in the millions, and the industry dominated the lives, colourful story of the global taste for one of health and expectations of entire shaikhdoms. mankind’s most highly prized precious stones. The influx of people and wealth to the coast permanently transformed the Gulf, providing the manpower and capital to nurture the city- states – Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah – which endure there today. Despite its formative role, there has till now been no book dealing with the pearl industry’s entire history. This ground-breaking work traces its evolution on the Arabian and Persian sides of the Gulf, and explores the role it played in shaping the political, social and urban config- uration of the region today. It shows the extent to which the Gulf economy became dependent on a single commodity, and thus how pearling resembled the oil industry to come. Encountering Islam Seen in the Yemen Joseph Pitts: An English Slave Travelling with Freya Stark and Others in 17th-century Algiers and Mecca by Paul Auchterlonie by Hugh Leach A critical edition, with biographical introduction and notes, of Joseph Pitts of Exeter’s A Faithful Account of ISBN: 978-0-9558894-5-5 the Religion and Manners of the Mahometans , 1731 320 pages; 244 x 180 mm ISBN: 978-0-9558894-9-3 Hardback, jacketed 234 x 156 mm, hardback, jacketed 148 duotone photographs; 2 maps 368 pages Glossary, Bibliography, Index 2 maps; 17 engravings and line illustrations Publication: 2011 Notes, Bibliography, Index Publication: Feb. 2012 Price: £45.00 Price: £48.00 Subject areas: Subject areas: Yemen; Arabian Peninsula; Arab world; Middle East; Algiers; Mecca; North Africa; Islam; Hajj; Pilgrimage; Jews; Travel and exploration; Freya Stark; Photography; Arabian Peninsula; Arab world; Middle East; Captivity; Leica cameras Slavery; Travel and exploration OR THREE CENTURIES after 1500, Britain had the advantage of living as a Muslim within EMEN IS JUSTLY famed as one of the world’s Freya and other noted Arabian travellers such as Fwas brought face to face with Islam through a Muslim society. Encountering Islam contains a Ymost dramatically beautiful countries. Seen Wilfred Thesiger and Dame Violet Dickson. The the activities of the Barbary corsairs. Muslim faithful rendering of the definitive 1731 edition in the Yemen brings the people, architecture and prints are introduced by a short description of ships based in North African ports terrorized of Pitts’s book. The introduction tells what is landscapes of this ancient culture alive to the those notable 1930s screw-thread Leica cameras European shipping, enslaving hundreds of known of Pitts’s life, and places his work against reader through the medium of the author’s used by so many early explorer-photographers. thousands of Christians. Encountering Islam is the its historical background of captivity narratives remarkable black-and-white photographs, taken Yemen today, like the rest of Arabia, is fascinating story of one Englishman’s exper- and Anglo-Muslim relations of the period. in the 1970s, and here reproduced in duotone. undergoing rapid and inevitable change. This ience of life within a Muslim society, as both His book is also a tribute to one of the most book records a time when town and country Christian slave and Muslim soldier. famous of all Arab and Asian travellers, the late had only recently embarked on the decades of Born in Exeter around 1662, Joseph Pitts was Dame Freya Stark (1893–1993). In the mid- upheaval, and much was visually unchanged. captured by Algerian pirates on his first voyage “Pitts … now lives and breathes before us. … As close to 1970s, at the age of eighty-three, she made two The author’s artistic eye imparts an unforget- definitive as the nature of scholarship permits. … Another in 1678. Sold as a slave in Algiers, he underwent example of Arabian Publishing’s notably high production visits to the author, who was then serving in table aura of romance and nostalgia to his forced conversion to Islam. Sold again, he acc- standards.” Sana‘a. Their travels together through north pictures which, like Freya Stark’s, will cast their ompanied his kindly third master on pilgrimage Studies in Travel Writing Yemen marked the start of a long friendship. spell over readers present and future. to Mecca, so becoming the first Englishman The volume is also designed to emulate Freya “An exemplary edition of an important work.” Seen in the Hadhramaut known to have visited the Muslim holy places. The Historian Stark’s earlier classic, , Granted his freedom, he became a soldier, published by John Murray in 1938. Beginning “The lost world the photographs evoke is indeed before venturing on a daring escape. Crossing “This book will remain the best edition of Pitts’s narrative with reminiscences of Dame Freya, the author remarkable. … Taken little more than 30 years ago, they are much of Italy and Germany on foot, he finally for many years to come.” recalls the time they spent together in Yemen, … jarringly at odds with the frenzy of the political upheaval International Journal of Maritime History coming out of Yemen today.” reached Exeter seventeen years after he had left.
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