Arab navigation in the Indian Ocean before the coming of the Portuguese : being a translation of Kitāb al-Fawāʼid fī uṣūl al-baḥr waʼl-qawāʼid of Aḥmad b. Mājid al-Najdī ; together with an introduction on the history of Arab navigation, notes on the navigational techniques and on the topography of the Indian Ocean and a glossary of navigational terms / by G.R. Tibbetts.
- Aḥmad ibn Mājid al-Saʻdī, active 1462-1498.
- Date:
- 1971
- Books
About this work
Also known as
Fawāʼid fī uṣūl ʻilm al-baḥr wa-al-qawāʻid. English
Publication/Creation
London : Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1971.
Physical description
xxvi, 614 pages, 8 folded leaves of plates : maps ; 22 cm.
Notes
Reprinted 1981
7 folded map in pocket inside back cover
Bibliographic information
Includes index and bibliography: p. xix-xxvi.
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesZVETB.CA.19
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ISBN
- 0718909003