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Archaeology and early history are described in Richard Le Baron Bowen, Jr., and Frank P. Albright, Archaeological Discoveries in South Arabia (1958); G. Lankester Harding, Archaeology in the Aden Protectorates (1964); F.V. Winnett and W.L. Reed, Ancient Records from North Arabia (1970); and Brian Doe, Southern Arabia (1971). General historical studies include J. Wellhausen, The Arab Kingdom and Its Fall (1927, reprinted 1973; originally published in German, 1902), covering the Islāmic empire ad 622–750, still useful though some views are now disputed; and Hermann V. Wissmann, Zur Geschichte und Landeskunde von Alt-Südarabien (1964). The study of more recent history should begin with the brilliant but controversial analysis of Khaldoun Hasan al-Naqeeb, Society and State in the Gulf and Arab Peninsula: A Different Perspective (1990; originally published in Arabic, 1987). Useful surveys also include R.B. Serjeant, Studies in Arabian History and Civilisation (1981); and Ian Richard Netton (ed.), Arabia and the Gulf: From Traditional Society to Modern States (1986). More specialized works are Nigel Groom, Frankincense and Myrrh: A Study of the Arabian Incense Trade (1981); M.J. Kister, Studies in Jāhiliyya and Early Islam (1980); R.B. Serjeant, The Portuguese off the South Arabian Coast: Hadrami Chronicles, with Yemeni and European Accounts of Dutch Pirates off Mocha in the Seventeenth Century (1963, reprinted 1974); Zāmil Muḥammad al-Rashīd, Suʿūdī Relations with Eastern Arabia and ʿUmān, 1800–1870 (1981); William Ochsenwald, Religion, Society, and the State in Arabia: The Hijaz Under Ottoman Control, 1840–1908 (1984); and John C. Wilkinson, Arabia’s Frontiers: The Story of Britain’s Boundary Drawing in the Desert (1991).
Article Contributors
Primary Contributors
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Mahmud Ali Ghul
Professor of Arabic and Semitic Languages, American University of Beirut.
- Robert Bertram Serjeant
- Alfred Felix L. Beeston
- William L. Ochsenwald
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clarified that the Ghassānids were miaphysite Christians. | Apr 30, 2020 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 23, 2019 | ||
| Replaced photographs. | Aug 07, 2015 | ||
| Arabic romanization reviewed. | Oct 31, 2012 | ||
| Historical map of Arabia added. | Jan 13, 2010 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Dec 14, 2007 | ||
| Media added. | Nov 02, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Nov 26, 2003 | ||
| Article revised. | Sep 05, 2000 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 26, 1999 |