A Traveller in Thirteenth-Century Arabia / Ibn al-Mujawir's Tarikh al-Mustabsir

Dust jacket stained and edges bumped, otherwise a very good copy, no markings./Schutzumschlag befleckt und Kanten besto�n, sonst sehr gutes Exemplar, ohne Anstreichungen. - Contents - Introduction - The Author - Historical Background - The Yemen - The Hejaz - The Contents - Ibn al-Muj�r�s introduction - Ibn al-Muj�r�s route descriptions - Ibn al-Muj�r�s parasang - Place names in the text - Agriculture, crops, fruits, vegetables and food - Dress and social customs - Magic, the wondrous and the bizarre - History and buildings - Maps and plans and diagrams - Trade and commerce - Tarikh al-Mustabsir as a source of the economic and social hist - Ayyubid Yemen - Assessment of the contents - The Text - Ibn al-Muj�r�s sources - personal observations, informants, literary works - The language - The manuscripts and the published edition - Other manuscripts - Translator�s Notes - On the translation - On the notes - On the glossary, appendixes and bibliography - On the maps - Tdrikh al-Mustabsir. Translation, - Appendixes - Appendix A: The Routes of Ibn al-Mujawir - Appendix B:Genealogical and Dynastic Tables - 1.Genealogical Table of B. Al-Karam/Al-Mukarram (Yemen) - 2.The Zaydi Imams from the Sth to the 7th/13th century (Yemen) - 3.The Ziyadids (Yemen) - 4.The Najahids (Yemen) - 5.The Sulayhids (Yemen) - 6.The Zuray'ids (Yemen) - 7.The Mahdids (Yemen) - 8.The Ayyubids (Yemen) - 9.The Musawids (Hejaz) - 10.B. Hashim (Hejaz) - 11.B. Qatadah (Hejaz) - Appendix C:List of Literary Works Quoted by Ibn al-Mujawir in the Text - Glossary - Bibliography - Index. ISBN 9780904180916