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The value of this assortment lies in its origins: for the 1st time, best Saudi Arabian historians have created a heritage of the Arabian Peninsula which analyzes that background from an inner Arabian point of view. The booklet explores the unique Bedouin payment of the zone, the improvement of the most important city components of Arabia in the course of the Umayyad interval, the socio-political and financial advancements within the Hijad and Najd as much as the eighteenth century into the fashionable period and the increase and improvement of the Saudi country. This ebook makes an immense contribution to our knowing of the historical past of the Arabian Peninusla, now not least since it presents a point of view from and a style of its neighborhood origins.
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See also Ibn Ḥawqal, Ṣūrat al-arḍ, p. 141. On the building of villages, digging of wells, the arrival of migrations of Rabīʿa 39 A H ISTORY OF THE A RABIAN P ENINSULA tribes to Aswan and Sawākin, see al-Maqrīzī, al-Bayān wa-al-iʿrab ʿammā bi-arḍ Miṣr min al-Aʿ rāb (ed. Ibrāhīm Ramzī, Cairo, 1916), p. 48. 123. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Dhannūn Ṫāhā, al-Fatḥ wa-al-istiqrār al-ʿArabī al-Islāmī fī shamāl Ifrīqiya wa-al-Andalus (Baghdad, 1982), pp. 239–42. 124. Ibn Ḥazm, Jamharat ansāb al-ʿArab (ed. ʿAbd al-Salām Muḥammad Hārūn, Cairo, 1971), pp.
See Jawād ʿAlī, al-Mufaṣṣal fītārīkh al-ʿArab qabl al-Islām (Beirut, 1976), I, p. 621. Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam, History of the Conquest of Egypt (Futūḥ Miṣr) (ed. Charles C. Torrey, Leiden, 1920), pp. 59–62. A discussion of the views of al-Masʿūdī, al-Maqrīzī and Butler is found in Ḥusayn, Adab Miṣr, p. 17 f f. P. K. Zhuze, Min tārīkh al-ḥarakāt al-fikriyya fī al-Islām (Jerusalem, 1848), p. 17. Zhuze was greatly impressed by the studies of Wellhausen, Caetani, Laurence, Nöldeke, Barthold and Butler on Arabian migrations in the early Islamic era.
6 This text indicates that in the Umayyad age any investments in mining were the responsibility of its owners, who had to pay an alms tax on what was extracted from the mine to the value of a quarter of a tenth. 7 Another famous gold mine was the mine of Hileet, situated in Hima Dariyyeh, named al-Najjadi because it belonged to a man called Najjad bin Musa bin Saʾed bin Abi Waqqas. This mine was rich in gold. ’ 9 The Buhran mine is also considered one of the most famous, and lies on the Faraʾ side on the road from Makkah to Madinah.