352 Pages
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Routledge
352 Pages
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Routledge
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The society and legal systems of Southern Arabia, both ancient and modern, form the subject of this second collection of articles by Professor Serjeant. His approach has been to make a detailed study of modern social structures and legal customs and to relate these to what we know of ancient society and law. The traditional tribal society of the region, he argues, has preserved in its customary... Read more
Contents: Preface; The Da’if and the Mustad’af and the status accorded to them in the Qur’an; The Caliph ’Umar’s letters to Abu Musa al-Ash’ari and Mu’awiya; The interplay between tribal affinities and religious (Zaydi) authority in the Yemen; The ’Awdhillah Confederation with some reference to al-Hamdani; Dawlah, tribal shaykhs, the Mansab of the Waliyyah Sa’idah, qasamah, in the Fadli sultanate, South Arabian Federation; Yafi’, Zaydis, Al Bu Bakr b. Salim and others: tribes and Sayyids; The Ma’n ’Gypsies’ of the East Aden Protectorate; A Judeo-Arab housedeed from Habban (with notes on the former Jewish communities of the Wahidi Sultanate); Famine death without loss of honour in ancient Arabia and Yemeni Arhab; The ’White Dune’ at Abyan: an ancient place of pilgrimage in Southern Arabia; Forms of plea: a Safi’i manual from al-Sihr; Two tribal law cases (documents), Wahidi Sultanate, South-west Arabia; Recent marriage legislation from al-Mukalla, with notes on marriage customs; Sex, birth, circumcision, some notes from South-west Arabia; Maritime customary law off the Arabian coasts; Omani naval activities off the Southern Arabian coast in the late 11th/17th centuries, from Yemeni chronicles; Notes on the ’Frankish Chancre’ (syphilis) in Yemen, Egypt and Persia; Notes on some aspects of Arab business practices in Aden; Index.
Biography
R.B. Serjeant
’Serjeant’s contribution to South Arabian Studies has been great and it is therefore useful to have so much of his work available in the Variorum reprint series.’ Journal of Semitic Studies
