… At his reception, a brother was asked: 'Do you ... promise to God and to Lady St Mary that you, all the remaining days of your life, will help to conquer, with the strength and power that …
… streets. Roundabouts, marvels of traffic engineering from a bygone era of few cars and manageable street … Doha, it seems, is addicted to tearing up its asphalted streets as soon as they …
… 137 In his letter, the Governor of Basra described the maritime activities of the al-‘Utub and the al-Khlaifat as having been constantly manning the boats and being busy. 138 In the two …
This paper describes the results of a brief archaeological survey of Jazī;rat al-Hulayla, an island in the Emirate of Ra's al-Khayma, United Arab Emirates. The island was found to contain …
… the mosque he had built in al-Qarfa, a cemetery outside Cairo, at the foot of al-Muqaam… was copied from al-afad’s al-Tadhkira by Ibn ijja (d. 837/1434) in his Qahwat al-insh (…
… ADDENDA TO THE HUDUD AL-'ALAM … Khuwar, 19b, suggests that w after kh was still pronounced before a short vowel. [The names of the two neighbouring boroughs : Khwar and …
The recapture by* Abd al-cAziz of Riyad his ancestral home in 1902 marks the … of the Al Su* ud from exile in Kuwayt and the avenging by cAbd al-cAziz of his familial honor upon the Al …
The Tarikh-i-Bayhaq is one of the few rare and precious works that have survived the awful Mongol invasion. The work, as its name implies, is a history of the famous district of Bayhaq, …
… They all live in the Jiddat al Harasiys and westwards to Mughshin al fAyn where they share the wild dates with the Bayt Kathiyr, and Bir Khasfat where they have a watering agreement …