{A} traveller in thirteenth-century Arabia : Ibn al-Mujawirs Tarikh Al-Mustabsir / translated from Oscar L©œfgren's Arabic text and edited with revisions and annotations by G. Rex Smith.
Material type: TextPublication details: Aldershot: Ashgate for the Hakluyt Society, 2008. Description: xix, 341 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cmISBN:- 9780904180
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | Centre of Visual Arts and Research | Main | DS206.I2613 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | 000516 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
-- Contents -- Ibn al-Muj♯wir's introduction -- Ibn al-Muj♯wir's route descriptions -- -- Ibn al-Muj♯wir's parasang -- Place names -- Agriculture, crops, fruits, vegetables and food -- Dress and social customs -- Magic, the wondrous and the bizarre -- Hstory and buildings -- Maps and plans and diagrams -- Trade and commerce -- T♯r♯±kh al-Mustab`£Đir as a source of the economic and social history of Ayyubid Yemen -- Assessment of the contents.
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