R B Serjeant
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 163285 |
|---|---|
| NOME | R B Serjeant |
| PRENOMES | R B |
| SOBRENOME | Serjeant |
| ASSINATURA | SERJEANT R B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 78 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1948 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Dictionary and Glossary of the Koran
John Penrice's Dictionary and Glossary of the Kor-ân first published almost a century ago, has withstood the test of time, and has been an aid to generations of Kor-ân students. According to Islamic doctrine the Kor-ân is the literal word of God, and it would be introduced by the phrase, "Qiil Allah ta'iilii, God the Exalted said", and when a passage has been recited aloud it will be said, "$adaq Allah al-'Azim, God Almighty has truly spoken"
Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ and early ʿAbbasid prose
In the annals of Arabic literature Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ occupies a central position. For it is with his work that the history of ʿAbbasid prose literature begins; it is he who opens the door to the golden age of Arabic prose writing; it is by him that a wide humanistic concept of letters is introduced to the Arabs. Though rightly classified as an ʿAbbasid writer and littérateur, Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ lived most of his life in Umayyad times, and it was under…
Adab and the concept of belles-lettres
Adab, the general term used in modern Arabic for literature or belles-lettres, is often also applied by Arab and western scholars to a body of medieval writings (such as those described in chapters 2 to 6 of this volume) which has come to be regarded as constituting a specific literary genre. At the same time, the term adab is frequently encountered among medieval Arab writers in a variety of applications, and, though some of these have literary …
New Arabian Studies
Al-Amri, 1 Carving and Recarving: Three Rasulid Gravestones Revisited Elizabeth Lambourn, 10 The Politics of Protection in the Gulf: The Arab Rulers and the British Resident in the Nineteenth Century James Onley, 30 Indecisive Reactions to the Portuguese by Mamluk and Ottoman Turk Clive Smith, 93 Three Tales from Arabia- Story-telling in Ibn al-Mugawir's 7th/13th Century Guide G. Rex Smith, 124 The Ma'azibah and the Zaraniq of Tihamah Francine Li…
Abbasid Belles-Lettres [The Cambridge History of Literature, II]
The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature
Eduahd Glaser – Forschungen im Yemen
Eduahd Glaser – Forschungen im Yemen: Eine Quellenkritische Untersuchung in Ethnologischer Sicht. By Walter Dostal. (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, Sitzungsberichte, 545. Band. Veröffentlichungen der Arabischen Kommission Nr. 4.) pp. 246, 36 pl. Vienna, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. 1990. Ös 420. - Volume 3 Issue 1
Yemenite authorities and Jewish Messianism
Yemenite authorities and Jewish Messianism: Ahmad ibn Nāṫir al-Zaydī's Account of the Sabbatian movement in seventeenth century Yemen and its aftermath. By P.S. Van Koningsveld, J. Sadan and Q. Al-Samarrai pp. 206, Leiden, Leiden University, Faculty of Theology 1990. DFl. 36. - Volume 2 Issue 1
B. Reviews
EARLY ISLAM: COLLECTED ARTICLES. By W. MONTGOMERY WATT. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1990. xi, 207pp. THE KINGDOM OF CYPRUS AND THE CRUSADES 1191–1374. By PETER W. EDBURY. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991. xvi, 241 pp. £27.50 (hb). MAMLOUKS, OTTOMANS ET PORTUGAIS EN MER ROUGE: L'AFFAIRE DE DJEDDA EN 1517. By JEAN‐LOUIS BACQUE‐GRAMMONT & ANNE KR(ELL. (Supplément aux Annales islamologiques, Cahier no.12). Le Caire, Publication …
Britain, Aden and South Arabia
Journal Article Britain, Aden and South Arabia: abandoning empire Get access Britain, Aden and South Arabia: abandoning empire. By Karl Pieragostini. London: Macmillan. 1991. 256pp. Index. £45.00. ISBN 0 333 49379 6. R. B. Serjeant R. B. Serjeant Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 68, Issue 4, October 1992, Page 753, https://doi.org/10.2307/2622779 Published: 01 October 1992
The Zaydī tribes of the Yemen
In a recent work, Paul Dresch gives us an admirable study, hard to praise too highly, well researched, engagingly written, with mercifully little of sociological jargon. His field contact and knowledge of the (Zaydī) tribes of the northern Yemeni Arab Republic is of the kind of experienced political officers in the former Aden Protectorates like the well-known late Major Ian Snell and 'Johnny' Johnson, to which he adds the ability to relate his f…
B. Reviews
A HISTORY OF THE ARAB PEOPLES. By ALBERT HOURANI. London, Faber and Faber, 1991. xviii, 551pp. £25 (hb). STUDIES IN ARAB HISTORY. Edited by DEREK HOPWOOD. (St.Antony's/Macmillan series.) London, Macmillan, 1990. 189pp. 5 plates and 3 figures. A HISTORY OF THE SELJUKS: İBRAHIM KAFESOGLU'S INTERPRETATION AND THE RESULTING CONTROVERSY. Translated and edited By GARY LEISER. Carbondale and Edwardsville, Southern Illinois University Press, 1988. 208pp.…
ʿAbbasid Belles-Lettres
Religion Learning and Science in the ʿAbbasid Period
The five centuries of the 'Abbasid period (eighth to thirteenth centuries AD) were the golden age of Arabic literature. They saw the appearance not only of poetry and belles-lettres (which are covered in a previous volume), but also of an extensive body of writings concerned with subjects ranging from theology and law to history and the natural sciences. This volume of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature surveys the most important of these…
B. Reviews
REGIERUNG UND VERWALTUNG DES VORDEREN ORIENTS IN ISLAMISCHER ZEIT. TEIL 2. Mit Beiträgen von D. SOURDEL und J. BOSCH VILÁ. (Handbuch der Orientalistik, Band VI: Geschichte der islamischen Länder, Abschnitt 5.) Leiden, Brill, 1988. vi, 152pp. Hfl.68.‐ (58.‐ to Series subscribers). BRITAIN AND THE MIDDLE EAST: AN ECONOMIC HISTORY 1945–87. By FRANK BRENCHLEY. (Middle East Studies.) London, Lester Crook, 1989. 391pp. AN IMPERIAL TWILIGHT. By SIR GAWA…
Saudi Arabia
Journal Article Saudi Arabia: technocrats in a traditional society Get access Saudi Arabia: technocrats in a traditional society. By Henry H. Albers. New York: Lang. 1989. 230pp. Index. (American University Studies.) $35.95. ISBN 0 8204 1095 0. R. B. Serjeant R. B. Serjeant Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 66, Issue 2, April 1990, Page 417, https://doi.org/10.2307/2621445 Publi…
Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam
B. Reviews
Streitschrift des Zaiditenimams Aḥmad an-Nāṣir
Streitschrift des Zaiditenimams Aḥmad an-Nāṣir: wider die Ibaditische Prädestinationslehre. Hrsg. vonWinferd Madelung. (Bibliotheca Islamica, 30.) pp. 18, 351 (Arabic text) Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1985. DM 94. - Volume 120 Issue 1
Early Mahdism
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Marchands d'étoffes du Fayyoum au III E /IX E Siècle
Marchands d'étoffes du Fayyoum au IIIE /IXE Siècle: d'après leurs archives (actes et lettres). II. La correspondance administrative Etprivée des Banū ‘Abd al-Mu'min. By Yūsuf Raǵib (Supplément aux Annales Islamologiques, Cahier No. 5.) pp. vi, 106 37 pl. Cairo, Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1985. - Volume 119 Issue 1
Famine death without loss of honour in ancient Arabia and Yemini Arhab
On 6 December 1966, with Muhammad al-'Ubaydī, son of the naqīb of Shākir, as Leader of my escort, I went to Sūdah in Arhab, a Black lava Mountain, the place belonging to 'Iyāl al-Sihaym. We had passed by Jabal al-Riyām and Sirwā. The tomb of Sālih was on the north side, a domed building This tomb had, or used to have, 'ushūr, tithes paid to it. In the houses which were on the south side there was only one man, the rest ofthe villagers being women…
Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum. Quatrième partie
Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum. Quatrième partie: Arabie. Inscriptions et Monuments de la Mecque: Ḥaram et Ka'ba. Par Hassan Mohammed Elhawary et Gaston Wiet, revu et mis au point par Nikita Elisséeff. Tome I (fasc. 1). (Mémoires publiés par les Membres de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire, Tome CIX, 1, 1, 1985.) pp. xl, 247, Le Caire, Publications de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1985. - Volum…
San a
International politics and the Middle East
Journal Article International politics and the Middle East: old rules, dangerous game Get access International politics and the Middle East: old rules, dangerous game. By L. Carl Brown. London: Tauris. 1984. 363 pp. Index. £29.50; ISBN 1 85043 000 4. Pb.: £9.50; ISBN 1 85043 001 2. R. B. Serjeant R. B. Serjeant Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 61, Issue 2, April 1985, Pages 329…
The Portuguese off the South Arabian Coast
Fisher-folk and fish-traps in al-Baḥrain
For assistance in every Kind of way to obtain the information Presented here I am in debted to Shaikh 'Abd al-'Aziz b. Muḥammad b. 'Abdulāh Āl Khalīfah, and particularly for introducing me to his friend the nawkhudhā 'Abdullāh b. Khamīs al-Shurūqī of al-Ḥidd village, situated on the south-east tip of al-Muḥarraq island, the northern island of the Baḥrain group. Al-Shurūqī entertained us to a fuwalih and took us carefully over his ḥaḍrah, explaini…
Some Irrigation Systems in ḥaḍramawt
How deeply questions of irrigation affect the daily life of the peoples of southern Arabia was first impressed upon me when the summer floods came down to am-Fajarah in Ṣubaiḥī country lying west of Aden, where I happened to be stationed at the time. The villagers turned out to argue, with some violence, over the distribution of the flood-waters. It was, however, as Shaikh Durain, a Lahej official with us in the village, pointed out, without weap…
TheSunnah Jāmi'ah, pacts with the Yathrib Jews, and theTaḥrīmof Yathrib
For almost a decade I have taught the 'Constitution of Medina' at Cambridge as the eight distinct documents it comprises, issued on various occasions over the first seven years or so, of Muḥammad's Medinan period, using a typescript text of these documents, designated A to H. My attention was first attracted to it when reviewing the late Professor A. Guillaume's translation of theSīrahof Ibn Isḥāq/Ibn Hishām, because of the astonishingly close pa…
Pottery and Glass Fragments from the Aden Littoral, with Historical Notes
The pottery and glass fragments examined here were collected in 1941 from three sites on the Aden littoral. They were picked up on the surface at (1) Kawd am-Saila, the “Dune of the Flood-Course”, a large isolated mound situated on the main Aden-Lahej-Yemen road, (2) Al-Ḥabīl, lying north-west of Lahej, just a little off the main Yemen route, and (3) Zingibar. The lastnamed site lies within the Abyan oasis on the coastal plain, some 35 miles nort…
Saudi Arabia
Journal Article Saudi Arabia: technocrats in a traditional society Get access Saudi Arabia: technocrats in a traditional society. By Henry H. Albers. New York: Lang. 1989. 230pp. Index. (American University Studies.) $35.95. ISBN 0 8204 1095 0. R. B. Serjeant R. B. Serjeant Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 66, Issue 2, April 1990, Page 417, https://doi.org/10.2307/2621445 Publi…
International politics and the Middle East
Journal Article International politics and the Middle East: old rules, dangerous game Get access International politics and the Middle East: old rules, dangerous game. By L. Carl Brown. London: Tauris. 1984. 363 pp. Index. £29.50; ISBN 1 85043 000 4. Pb.: £9.50; ISBN 1 85043 001 2. R. B. Serjeant R. B. Serjeant Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 61, Issue 2, April 1985, Pages 329…
Yemen
Journal Article Yemen: The Search for a Modern State Get access Yemen: The Search for a Modern State. By J. E. Peterson. London: Croom Helm. 1982. 221 pp. Index. £11.95. R. B. Serjeant R. B. Serjeant 1University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 4, Autumn 1982, Page 715, https://doi.org/10.2307/2618522 Published: 01 October 1982
A Maqāmah on Palm-Protection (Shirāḥah)
Water Rights and Irrigation Practices in Lahj
Water rights and irrigation practices in Laلاhj;a study of the application of customary and Sharطi ah law in south-west Arabia , Water rights and irrigation practices in Laلاhj;a study of the application of customary and Sharطi a... , مرکز فناوری اطلاعات و اطلاع رسانی کشاورزی
Miḥrāb
THE origin of the term miḥrāb is somewhat obscure. In Islām it is usually particularly applied to the prayer-niche, and the article in the Encyclopaedia of Islām2 treats of it only as such, yet this technical usage of the word seems to be derived from a more primitive and general meaning, and on the balance of the evidence its emergence as a name for a part of the sanctuary appears to be Islāmic only. Miḥrāb has been discussed by Nöldeke,3 by Hor…
New Arabian Studies
Al-Amri, 1 Carving and Recarving: Three Rasulid Gravestones Revisited Elizabeth Lambourn, 10 The Politics of Protection in the Gulf: The Arab Rulers and the British Resident in the Nineteenth Century James Onley, 30 Indecisive Reactions to the Portuguese by Mamluk and Ottoman Turk Clive Smith, 93 Three Tales from Arabia- Story-telling in Ibn al-Mugawir's 7th/13th Century Guide G. Rex Smith, 124 The Ma'azibah and the Zaraniq of Tihamah Francine Li…
Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam
Famine death without loss of honour in ancient Arabia and Yemini Arhab
On 6 December 1966, with Muhammad al-'Ubaydī, son of the naqīb of Shākir, as Leader of my escort, I went to Sūdah in Arhab, a Black lava Mountain, the place belonging to 'Iyāl al-Sihaym. We had passed by Jabal al-Riyām and Sirwā. The tomb of Sālih was on the north side, a domed building This tomb had, or used to have, 'ushūr, tithes paid to it. In the houses which were on the south side there was only one man, the rest ofthe villagers being women…
A Fortified Tower-House in Wādī Jirdān (Wāḥidī Sultanate) - I
In September 1964 we were able, after considerable difficulty, to reach the village al-Jinainah (al-Junainah) of Wādī Jirdān (which we had already visited earlier in the year along the spectacular new road from Wādī 'Amaqīn). In the afternoon of that day and early next morning before leaving to return to 'Ataq we made a brief survey of the tower known as al-Muqaiyad-the subject of this article. The visit being so hurried and part of the work bein…
The Portuguese off the South Arabian Coast
Saint Sergius
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A Metal Padlock and Keys from Southern Arabia
A Journey by Two Jesuits from Dhufar to San'a in 1590
Pottery and Glass Fragments from the Aden Littoral, with Historical Notes
The pottery and glass fragments examined here were collected in 1941 from three sites on the Aden littoral. They were picked up on the surface at (1) Kawd am-Saila, the “Dune of the Flood-Course”, a large isolated mound situated on the main Aden-Lahej-Yemen road, (2) Al-Ḥabīl, lying north-west of Lahej, just a little off the main Yemen route, and (3) Zingibar. The lastnamed site lies within the Abyan oasis on the coastal plain, some 35 miles nort…
Two Yemenite Djinn
The word(pi. ) appears in most of the lexicons which I have consulted, but it does not seem to be known in the sense of a supernatural creature, although this meaning is familiar to Yemenite folklore and dialect
Materials for South Arabian History Notes on new MSS from Hadramawt
The basis of the list of biographical works in this part is the material in two articles from al-Rābitat al-‘Alawīya , a rare but learned journal published by the ‘Alawl saiyids for about four years at Batavia. This journal is unlikely to be found in Europe, unless indeed a set exists in Holland, but it is a source of major importance for the student of Hadramī history, as he will find material there not available elsewhere. I have not seen a com…
A Journey by Two Jesuits from Dhufar to San'a in 1590
Materials for South Arabian History
The Mss. herein described were purchased, copied, or recorded during a tour V A in Hadramawt as Colonial Research Fellow. Besides visiting the main "f Wadi lying between Kabr Hūd and Hainin, I made investigations in the Wādī f Daw'an, Huraida in 'Amd, and in the course of a journey from Bal-Hᾶf, on the I coast, to Habbān on the western fringe of Wāhidi territory. Time did not I allow of a systematic recording of all existing MSS., which can be se…
Two Tribal Law Cases (Documents) (Wāḥidī Sultanate, South-West Arabia)
The general procedure in this case is very similar to that of the aforegoing, but here we have the decision of the tribal muḳaddam (pi. maḳādimah) or headman. Bin ‘Awzar's solution of the problem is, of course, very different from a legal decision in a European court to-day, but our methods would probably fail where decisions such as this are effective in obtaining justice. The two parties are constrained to produce other individuals to give evid…
Two Tribal Law Cases (Documents)
During a year in Ḥaḍramawt I was able to collect a number of legal documents which contain valuable material for a study of the social structure of the country. Amongst these are two groups of deeds relating to the Ḥawṭahs of al-Ḥāwī and Th ibī, typical examples of the sacred enclaves of this part of Arabia. Another set of documents defines the rights of the townsmen of the Sūḳ quarter of Tarim, with some references to the ceremonies connected wi…
South Arabian Poetry, I, Prose and Poetry from Hadramaut
A Judeo-Arab House-Deed from Ḥabbān
The Jewish community of Ḥabbān is no more. The Yemenite Jews have emigrated almost wholesale to Palestine, taking with them, indeed, a number of their books and documents, but they cannot now be studied in their homeland. For the further history of the Yemenite Jews Professor S. D. Goitein's article on the “Transplantation of the Yemenites” may be consulted, but my own brief and crowded six days in Ḥabbān during December, 1947, were probably one …
Prose and Poetry from Haḍramawt
A Battle Axe from Habban, Wahidi Sultanate, Aden Protectorate
The Medieval Defences of Aden
R. Bayly Winder and Farhat J. Ziadeh
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Folk-Remedies from Ḥaḍramawt
The ms of miscellaneous contents from which this treatise has been extracted was lent me by its owner, Shaikh Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Ḳāadir Bā Maṭraf, Assistant State Secretary to the Mukallā Government; a microfilm is now in the Library of the School.Of the author, Muhammad Bahrak1 (H. 869/A.D. 1465 - H. 930/A.D. 1524) I have already given some account in connexion with his manual al-Nubdhah al-Muharrirah.2 Brockelmann does not, however, allude to …
A Fiscal Survey of the Medieval Yemen
A New Map of Southern Arabia
Two Sixteen-Century Arabian Geographical Works
During the course of my 1953-4 tour in Arabia, I was able to see a great many new MSS, mostly of specifically South Arabian content, amongst which for example was a rare early copy of Ibn Samurah's 1E6C;abaḳāt, the same MS also containing what appears to be an unknown treatise on the grammatical scholars of Basrah and Kūfah. A photocopy of this MS is now in the Library of the School, and a brief description is in the Madjallat al-Makhtūṭāt al-'Ar…
Professor A. Guillaume's Translation of the Sīrah
Professor Guillaume's new translation of the Sīrah of Ibn Isḥāq (in the recension of Ibn Hishām) will stand as an enduring monument to his tenure of the Chair of Arabic at the University of London. The Arabic has been rendered into elegant classical English, very readable in style, with none of that awkwardness of English idiom which often besets translations attempting to present an Arabian setting and outlook so utterly different from those of …
Eberhard Kuhnt
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Ukhdūd
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Miḥrāb
THE origin of the term miḥrāb is somewhat obscure. In Islām it is usually particularly applied to the prayer-niche, and the article in the Encyclopaedia of Islām2 treats of it only as such, yet this technical usage of the word seems to be derived from a more primitive and general meaning, and on the balance of the evidence its emergence as a name for a part of the sanctuary appears to be Islāmic only. Miḥrāb has been discussed by Nöldeke,3 by Hor…
Saint Sergius
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A Metal Padlock and Keys from Southern Arabia
Recent Marriage Legislation From Al-Mukallā with Notes on Marriage Customs
In Ḥaḍramawt, it seems, there have been constantly reiterated attempts at creating effective sumptuary laws limiting expenditure at marriages and other social activities, especially in respect of the extravagant demands of women for dress and other forms of ostentation where their rivalry leads their male relatives into expenditure beyond their means. The sentiments of the Hadrami man are admirably expressed in a qasīdah by the sh ai kh Aḥmad Bar…
Hadramaut
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