Böcker av R.B. Serjeant

This book is the fourth and final collection of Professor R.B. Serjeant's articles on the trade, commerce and society of South Arabia and the Yemen. The early articles concern trade; customary law is the next subject represented with social history and one or two incidental articles completing the volume.

A collection of articles on the society and legal systems of South Arabia, both ancient and modern, using the study of the customary law of modern-day tribal society to illuminate the practices of the past and the development of Islamic law.