Arab navigation in the Indian Ocean before the coming of the Portuguese : being a translation of Kitāb al-Fawāʼid fī uṣūl al-baḥr waʼl-qawāʼid of Aḥmad b. Mājid al-Najdī ; together with an introduction on the history of Arab navigation, notes on the navigational techniques and on the topography of the Indian Ocean and a glossary of navigational terms / by G. R. Tibbetts.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Arabic Series: Oriental Translation Fund (Series) ; v. 42.Publication details: [London : Routledge, 2007]Description: xxvi, 614, [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0947593233 (hbk.)
  • 9780947593230 (hbk.)
Uniform titles:
  • Fawāʼid fī uṣūl īlm al-baḥr wa-al-qawāʼid. English
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • VK144 .A3813 2007
Item type: BOOK
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Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center Library STACKS VK144 A3813 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) V. Copy 1 Available 197011677

Title page states publication in 1981.

Includes bibliographical references (p. xix-xxvi) and indexes.

Reprint. Originally published: London : Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1971.