Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies - Vol. 36 (2006)

Papers from the thirty-ninth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies edited by Rob Carter and St John Simpson.

ISBN 190573901X.
Price £45.00.

299 pages; numerous figures, plans, maps, drawings and photographs.

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CONTENTS:

In memoriam Brian Doe (page 1)

PART ONE: A CELEBRATION OF A.F.L. BEESTON (1911-1995):

Michael C.A. Macdonald, Introductory Remarks (pages 3-4)

Geert Jan van Gelder, An experiment with Beeston, Labid, and Bassar: on translating Classical Arabic verse (pages 5-15)

James E. Montgomery, Beeston and the singing-girls (pages 16-24)

Clive Holes, The Arabic dialects of Arabia (pages 25-34)

Janet C.E. Watson, Bonnie Glover Glover, Khalid al-Razihi and Shelagh Weir, The language of Jabal Razih: Arabic or something else? (pages 35-41)

Christian Robin, L'institution monarchique en Arabie du Sud antique: les contributions fondatrices d'A.F.L. Beeston réexaminees à la lumière des découvertes les plus récentes (pages 43-52)

Mohammed Maraqten, Legal documents recently discovered by the AFSM at Mahram Bilqis, near Marib, Yemen (pages 53-67)

Serguei A. Frantsouzoff, A Minaic inscription on the pedestal of an ibex figurine from the British Museum (pages 69-77)

Alessandra Avanzini, Ancient South Arabian anthroponomastics: historical remarks (pages 79-85)

Michael J. Zwettler, "Binding on the crown" (pages 87-99)

Manfred Kropp, Burden and succession: a proposed Aramaicism in the inscription of Namara, or the diadochs of the Arabs (pages 101-109)

PART TWO: ADDITIONAL NEW RESEARCH ON ARABIA:

Søren F. Andersen and Mustafa Ibrahim Salman, The Tylos Burials in Bahrain (pages 111-124)

Djamel Boussaa, A future to the past: the case of Fareej Al-Bastakia in Dubai, UAE (pages 125-
138)

Paolo M. Costa, Dank archaeological project: a preliminary report (pages 139-149)

Rémy Crassard, Joy McCorriston, Eric Oches, 'Abd Al-Aziz Bin 'Aqil, Julien Espagne and Mohammad Sinnah, Manayzah, early to mid-Holocene occupations in Wadi Sana (Hadramawt, Yemen) (pages 151-173)

Roland de Beauclair, Sabah A. Jasim and Hans-Peter Uerpmann, New results on the Neolithic jewellery from al-Buhais 18, UAE (pages 175-187)

Ronald W. Hawker, Tribe, house style and the town layout of Jazirat al-Hamra, Ras al-Khaimah, UAE (pages 189-198)

Moawiyah M. Ibrahim, Report on the 2005 AFSM excavations in the Ovoid Precinct at Mahram Bilqis/Marib: preliminary report (pages 199-216)

Mutsuo Kawatoko and Risa Tokunaga, Arabic rock inscriptions of south Sinai (pages 217-227)

Michel Mouton, Anne Benoist, Jérémie Schiettecatte, Mounir Arbach and Vincent Bernard, Makaynun, a South Arabian site in the Hadramawt (pages 229-242)

Adrian Parker, Caroline Davies and Tony Wilkinson, The early to mid-Holocene moist period in Arabia: some recent evidence from lacustrine sequences in eastern and south-western Arabia (pages 243-255)

Tara Steimer-Herbet, G. Davtian and F. Braemer, Pastoralists' tombs and settlement patterns in Wadi Wash'ah during the Bronze Age (Hadramawt, Yemen) (pages 257-265)

Yosef Tobi, The Subayri Collection in the Harvard Peabody Museum and Harvard Semitic Museum (pages 267-274)

Donatella Usai, A fourth-millennium BC Oman site and its context: Wadi Shab-GAS1 (pages 275-288)

Eric Vallet, Yemeni "oceanic policy" at the end of the thirteenth century (pages 289-296)

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