Atlas of the Gulf states /
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The Arab Gulf States possess more than half of the planet's crude oil reserves, and their gas reserves are immense. The transition from being rental economies to producing economies has caused rapid and significant changes, including the influx of foreign (Arab and Asian) manual laborers, and spectacular urban development, particularly along the coast. This Atlas of the Gulf States contains more than 150 maps and graphs based on recent data. It offers a survey of the history and economic and urban development of the Gulf region. For Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Iran, this atlas offers detailed maps, plans and statistics for the relevant provinces as well as the most important cities. This Atlas is an updated translation from the French edition (2011), with a more extensive bibliography and an index.
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1 online resource (v, 120 pages) : color maps. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004245662 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Al-Maqrīzī's al-Ḫabar 'an al-bašar.
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In The Arab Thieves , Peter Webb critically explores the classic tales of pre-Islamic Arabian outlaws in Arabic Literature. A group of Arabian camel-rustlers became celebrated figures in Muslim memories of pre-Islam, and much poetry ascribed to them and stories about their escapades grew into an outlaw tradition cited across Arabic literature. The ninth/fifteenth-century Egyptian historian al-Maqrīzī arranged biographies of ten outlaws into a chapter on 'Arab Thieves' in his wide-ranging history of the world before Muhammad. This volume presents the first critical edition of al-Maqrīzī's text with a fully annotated English translation, alongside a detailed study that interrogates the outlaw lore to uncover the ways in which Arabic writers constructed outlaw identities and how al-Maqrīzī used the tales to communicate his vision of pre-Islam. Via an exhaustive survey of early Arabic sources about the outlaws and comparative readings with outlaw traditions in other world literatures, The Arab Thieves reveals how Arabic literature crafted lurid narratives about criminality and employed them to tell ancient Arab history.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004386952 :
2211-6737 ;
Qāʼimah bi-al-kutub wa-al-marājiʻ ʻan al-Jazīrah al-ʻArabīyah /
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At head of title : al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah al-Muttaḥidah. Wizārat al-Thaqāfah wa-al-Irshād al-Qawmī. Dār al-Kutub.
Added t. pages : A bibliographical list of Arabian Peninsula.
Includes publications in Arabic and Western languages :
100, 79 pages ; 25 cm.
Qa'imah bi-al-kutub wa-al-maraji' 'an al-Jazirah al-'Arabiyah.
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At head of title : al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah al-Muttaḥidah. Wizārat al-Thaqāfah wa-al-Irshād al-Qawmī. Dār al-Kutub.
Added title pages : A bibliographical list of Arabian Peninsula.
Includes publications in Arabic and Western languages. :
100, 79 pages ; 25 cm.