In Chapter one, I presented a comparative definition of the meaning of Sirah (PI.Siyar), Tarjamah (Pl. Tarajim), Manaqib, Tabaqat and Maghazi as they were understood in antiquity. I also showed how the meaning of Sirah in modern times has only narrowly developed. Although the me…
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At the start of the twentieth century, British intelligence agents began seriously to venture to the region they called “Arabia,” drawn by both geopolitical concerns and the hope of finding in a proverbially mystical land the spiritual calm that eluded them at home. These compet…
This study addresses how nineteenth-century Americans perceived the lands of the Eastern Mediterranean. The project rests upon a detailed examination of American primary school geography textbooks that enjoyed widespread circulation during the century. The lack of an effective e…
This thesis considers the accomplishments of the construction industry and trends within the industry in Saudi Arabia over a period of 25 years, from 1390AH to 1415AH (1970–1995). In addition, this thesis assesses the contribution made by all parties associated with construction…
Materials management plays a significant role in the success and profitability of industrial projects. Studies have indicated that materials constitute about 60% of total project cost, and control 80% of the project schedule. Hence, effective management of materials represents a…
The first half of the thesis comprises an analysis of the climate, hydrological conditions, settlement patterns and funerary evidence pertaining to the second millennium BC (Wadi Suq and Iron I Periods) in Southeast Arabia. It is suggested that settlement contracted to certain a…
The Lower Cretaceous Thamama Group in the Rub' al Khali basin, southern Arabia, disconformably overlies thick Upper Jurassic anhydrite of the Hith Formation. The Thamama is over 2900 feet (884 m) thick, and consists, in stratigraphic sequence, of the Sulaiy, Yamama, Buwaib/Biyad…
This dissertation addresses early British intelligence activities and Anglo-Ottoman relations by viewing the activities of army officers and private individuals as a collective pursuit to safeguard British imperial interests. It offers a new understanding of the relationships be…
Major transitions in subsistence, settlement organization, and funerary architecture accompanied the rise and fall of extensive trade complexes between southeastern Arabia and major centers in Mesopotamia, Dilmun, Elam, Central Asia, and the Indus Valley throughout the third and…
This thesis is concerned with the travel writings of three Victorian travellers to the Middle East, Alexander William Kinglake, Sir Richard Francis Burton and William Gifford Palgrave. Its main aim is to show how the three travellers viewed the Orient through their own ideology …
This dissertation investigates the activities of the American missionaries, specifically the impact of the "Arabian Mission," on Kuwaiti society. A good understanding of the impact is achieved by studying Kuwaiti documents, interviews, personal memoirs, British documents, and mi…
In spite of numerous studies, the mechanisms for the rifting, uplifting, and volcanism on the African plate remain enigmatic. The most popular hypotheses proposed for explaining these tectonic phenomena involve edge-driven small-scale mantle convection and the thermal or dynamic…
Despite decades of archaeological excavations in the western Wādī Hadramūt and its tributaries, when compared to its neighbors in Southwestern Arabia, the Pre-Islamic kingdom of Hadramūt is poorly understood. The interior Wādī Hadramūt of the Islamic period is even less well kno…
This dissertation examines the social and historical circumstances and the Qur'anic justifications for implementing, executing and governing the practice of war in seventh century Arabia. Several foci are topics of concern: the role of the charismatic prophet, the life and times…
This work investigates the adaptive strategies that facilitated the intensification of settlement and trade that occurred between 1100 and 600 BCE in Southeastern Arabia and the ways in which we can use ceramic evidence to investigate them. The ceramic evidence shows that the pr…
This dissertation examines the slave trade from East Africa to the Arabian Gulf and the role of the African diaspora in the Gulf economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, this study attempts to present an analytical framework for understanding …
Using the Wadi Sana watershed of Hadramawt Governate, Yemen as a case study, this dissertation examines how environmental and social factors structured the origins of irrigation in prehistoric Southwest Arabia. It applies three methods, archaeological survey, geomatics, and ethn…