Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, Vol. 41 - 2011. Papers from the forty-fourth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, 22-24 July 2010.

Few marks, otherwise good and very clean. - Contents: Transliteration -- Editor's Foreword -- In memoriam Selma Al-Radi -- In memoriam Alessandro de Maigret -- In memoriam Dr Gerd Weisgerber -- Olga Andriyanova: Some observations on women in Omani sources -- Paul Breeze, Richard Cuttier & Paul Collins: Archaeological landscape characterization in Qatar through satellite and aerial photographic analysis, 2009 to 2010 -- Fabio Cavulli & Simona Scaruffi: Fishing kit implements from KHB-1: net sinkers and lures (poster) -- Julien Charbonnier: The distribution of storage and diversion dams in the western mountains of South Arabia during the Himyarite period -- Richard Cuttier, Emma Tetlow & Faisal al-Naimi: Assessing the value of palaeoenvironmental data and geomorphological processes for understanding Late Quaternary population dynamics in Qatar -- Christian Daries: Les fortifications de Khor Rori-" Sumhuram " (poster) -- Philipp Drechsler: Places of contact, spheres of interaction. The 'Ubaid phenomenon in the central Gulf area as seen from a first season of reinvestigations at Dosariyah (Dawsariyyah), Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia -- Orhan Elmaz: khushub musannadah (Qur'an 63. 4) and Epigraphic South Arabian ms3nd -- Roman Garba & Peter Farrington: Walled structures and settlement patterns in the south-western part of Dhofar, Oman (poster) -- Francesco G. Fedele: The wall and talus at Baraqish, ancient Yathill (al-Jawf, Yemen): a Minaean stratigraphy. -- Hilal al-Hajri: Through evangelizing eyes: American missionaries to Oman -- Nasser Said al-Jahwari: Quantified analysis of long-term settlement trends in the northern Oman peninsula -- Sarah Japp, Iris Gerlach, Holger Hitgen & Mike Schnelle: Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba' and D'MT- New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia -- Derek Kennet, Andrew Blair, Brian Ulrich & Sultan M. al-Duwish: The Kadhima Project: investigating an Early Islamic settlement and landscape on Kuwait Bay (poster) -- Sterenn Le Maguer: Typology of incense-burners of the Islamic period -- Phillip G. Macumber: A geomorphological and hydrological underpinning for archaeological research in northern Qatar -- Lapo Gianni Marcucci, Francesco Genchi, Emilie Badel & Maurizio Tosi: Recent investigations at the prehistoric site RH-5 (Ra's al-Hamra', Muscat, Sultanate of Oman) -- Mike Morley, Robert Carter & Christian Velde: Geoarchaeological investigations at the site of Julfar (al-Nudud and al-Mataf), Ra's al-Khaymah, UAE: preliminary results from the auger-hole survey (poster) -- Helen Moulden, Richard Cuttier & Shane Kelleher: Conserving and contextualizing national cultural heritage: the 3-D digitization of the fort at al-Zubarah and petroglyphs at Jabal al-Jusasiyyah, Qatar (poster) -- Faisal al-Naimi, Kathryn M. Price, Richard Cuttier & Hatem Arrock: Reassessing Wadi Debay an (Wadi al-Dabay'an): an important Early Holocene Neolithic multi-occupational site in western Qatar (poster) -- Andrew Petersen: Research on an Islamic period settlement at Ra's 'Ushayriq in northern Qatar and some observations on the occurrence of date presses -- David W. Phillipson: Relations between southern Arabia and the northern Horn of Africa during the last millennium BC -- Timothy Power & Peter Sheehan: Bayt Bin 'Ati in the Qattarah oasis: a prehistoric industrial site and the formation of the oasis landscape of al-'Ain, UAE -- Alessia Prioletta: The Sabaic inscription A-20-216: a new Sabaean-Seleucid synchronism -- Saad bin 'Abdulaziz al-Rashid, Al-Suwaydirah (old al-Taraf) and its Early Islamic inscriptions -- Gareth Rees, Tobias Richter & Alan Walmsley: Investigations in al-Zubarah hinterland at Murayr and al-Furayhah, north-west Qatar (poster) -- Tobias Richter, Paul Wordsworth & Alan Walmsley: Pearl fishers, townsfolk, Bedouin, and shaykhs: economic and social relations in Islamic al-Zubarah -- Mikhail Rodionov: Contemporary tribal versions of local history in Hadramawt -- Abdulla Al-Sulaiti: A view of the defence strategy of Muharraq, a tribal town in the Gulf (poster) -- Solaiman 'Abd al-Rahman al-Theeb: New Nabataean inscriptions from the site of al-Sij in the region of al-'Ula, Saudi Arabia -- Ingolf Thuesen & Moritz Kinzel: Al-Zubarah Archaeological Park as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site - a master plan for its site management, preservation, and presentation (poster) -- Brian Ulrich: Oman and Bahrain in Late Antiquity: the Sasanians' Arabian periphery -- Nancy Um: From the port of Mocha to the eighteenth-century tomb of Imam al-Mahdi Muhammad in al-Mawahib: locating architectural icons and migratory craftsmen -- Lisa Urkevich: Drummers of the Najd: musical practices from Wadi al-Dawasir, Saudi Arabia -- Tom Vosmer, Luca Belfioretti, Eric Staples & Alessandro Ghidoni: The Jewel of Muscat Project: reconstructing an early ninth-century CE shipwreck. -- Janet C.E. Watson & Munira Al-Azraqi: Lateral fricatives and lateral emphatics in southern Saudi Arabia and Mehri -- Titles of papers read at the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, on 22-24 July 2010. ISBN 9781905739400