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Book

Author:Serjeant, RB & Lewcock, Ronald
Year:1983
Title:San'a' : an Arabian Islamic city
Place:London
Publisher:World of Islam Festival Trust - Scorpion Press

This book is a case study of major scholastic importance in which the society - along with the complex religious, legal, and mercantile setting - long history, crafts, arts, and religious and vernacular architecture of this traditional Islamic city of north Yemen are exhaustively described and analysed. The text and images are of great interest to scholars in many branches of oriental research and it is one of the most important books on Arabia ever to have been published. First edition limited to 2000 numbered copies. (Source: AbeBooks)
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