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Yemeni merchants and trade in Yemen, 13th-16th centuries; the Hadrami network; the Yemeni coast in 1005/1597 - an anonymous note on the flyleaf of Ibn al-Majawir's ""Tarikh al-Mustabsir Arabian Studies 7""; fifteenth century ""interlopers"" on the coast of Rasulid Yemen; the customary law of south-west Arabia and Bedouin justice in Jordan; customary law documetns as a source of history; Sunnah, Qur'an, 'Urf; the Fatima - Taiyibi (Ismaili) Da'wah - ideologies and community; societee et gouvernement en Arabie du Sud; wards and quarters of towns in south-west Arabia; Zma, some forms of marriage and allied topics in Western Arabia; the Yemen poet Al-Zubayri and his polemic against Zaydi imans; Islam; a fortified tower-house in Wadi Jirdan (Wahidi Sultanate) - I & II.

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R.B. Serjeant, formerly University of Cambridge, UK Edited by G. Rex Smith

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