Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 33 2003

Contents

THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF OMAN AND THE GULF ;
Peter Magee, New chronometric data defining the Iron Age II period in south-eastern Arabia ;
Vincent Charpentier, Philippe Marquis & Éric Pellé, La nécropole et les derniers horizons Ve millénaire du site de Gorbat al-Mahar (Suwayh, SWY–1, Sultanat d'Oman) : premiers résultats ;
Jutta Häser, Archaeological results of the 1999 and 2000 survey campaigns in Wadi Bani Awf and the region of al-Hamra (Central Oman) ;
Cécile Monchablon, Rémy Crassard, Olivia Munoz, Hervé Guy, Gaëlle Bruley-Chabot & Serge Cleuziou, Excavations at Ra’s al-Jinz RJ–1: stratigraphy without tells ;
Tom Vosmer, The Magan Boat Project: a process of discovery, a discovery of process ;
Anne Benoist, Michel Mouton & Jeremie Schiettecatte, The artefacts from the fort at Mleiha: distribution, origins, trade and dating ;
Ali Tigani ElMahi & Moawiyah Ibrahim, Two seasons of investigations at Manal site in the Wadi Samayil area, Sultanate of Oman ;
Soumyen Bandyopadhyay & Magda Sibley, The distinctive typology of central Omani mosques: its nature and antecedents ;
Caesar E. Farah, Anglo-Ottoman confrontation in the Persian Gulf in the late 19th and early 20th centuries ;

COMPARATIVE WATER SYSTEMS ;
Miquel Barceló, Julián Ortega, Arcadi Piera & Josep Torró, The Search for the Hararah asdād in the area of Zafār, Governorate of Ibb, Yemen ;
Helena Kirchner, Ma’jil: a type of hydraulic system in Yemen and in al-Andalus? ;

THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF PRE-ISLAMIC YEMEN ;
T.J. Wilkinson, The organization of settlement in highland Yemen during the Bronze and Iron Ages ;
Frank Braemer, Serge Cleuziou & Tara Steimer, Dolmen-like structures: some unusual funerary monuments in Yemen ;
William D. Glanzman, An examination of the building campaign of YadaΚΜil Dharīh bin Sumhu’alay, mukarrib of Saba’, in light of recent archaeology ;
Jean-François Breton, Preliminary notes on the development of Shabwa ;
Christian Darles, Les fortifications de Shabwa, capitale du royaume de Hadramawt ;
Jan Retsö, When did Yemen become Arabia felix? ;
The epigraphy of pre-Islamic Yemen ;
Joseph L. Daniels, Landscape graffiti in the Dhamār Plains and its relation to mountain-top religious practice ;
Serguei A. Frantsouzof, The Hadramitic funerary inscription from the cave-tomb at al-Rukbah (Wādī Ghabr, Inland Hadramawt) and burial ceremonies in ancient Hadramawt ;
Peter Stein, The inscribed wooden sticks of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich ;
Mohammed Maraqten, Some notes on Sabaic epistolography ;

YEMEN IN THE ISLAMIC PERIOD ;
A. Rougeulle, Excavations at Sharmah, Hadramawt the 2001 and 2002 seasons ;
Noha Sadek, a’izz, capital of the Rasulid dynasty in Yemen ;

ETHNOGRAPHY IN YEMEN ;
Vitaly Naumkin & Victor Porkhomovsky, Oral poetry in the Soqotran socio-cultural context. The case of the ritual song The girl and the jinn ;
Miranda Morris, The Soqotra Archipelago: concepts of good health and everyday remedies for illness ;
Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper, Children's attire in early 20th-century San’ā’ as a socio-cultural paradigm.