Arabia: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Introductions to the area include Sheila A. Scoville (ed.), Gazetteer of Arabia: A Geographical and Tribal History of the Arabian Peninsula, vol. 1 (1979); Robert W. Stookey (ed.), The Arabian Peninsula: Zone of Ferment (1984); Hassan S. Haddad and Basheer K. Nijim (eds.), The Arab World: A Handbook (1978); Alois Musil, Northern Negd (1928, reprinted 1978), on the Najd region of Saudi Arabia; and Derek Hopwood (ed.), The Arabian Peninsula: Society and Politics (1972). See also M.W. Dempsey (comp.), Atlas of the Arab World (1983). Early explorations are chronicled in Robin Bidwell, Travellers in Arabia (1976); and Zahra Freeth and H.V.F. Winstone, Explorers of Arabia: From Renaissance to the End of the Victorian Era (1978). The people of the peninsula are described in Peter Mansfield, The New Arabians (1981); H.R.P. Dickson, The Arab of the Desert, 3rd ed. rev. and abridged by Robert Wilson and Zahra Freeth (1983); Max Freiherr von Oppenheim, Die Beduinen, 2 vol. (1939, reprinted 1983); and Walter Dostal, Die Beduinen in Südarabien (1967). Religious life and history are detailed in Gonzague Ryckmans, Les Religions arabes préislamiques, 2nd ed. (1951); J. Spencer Trimingham, Christianity Among the Arabs in Pre-Islamic Times (1979); and A.J. Arberry (ed.), Religion in the Middle East, vol. 2, Islam (1969, reprinted 1976). Articles on the geography, history, and religion of the Arabian Peninsula may be found in The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 4 vol. and a suppl. (1913–36), with a new edition in progress, beginning in 1960; and The Shorter Encyclopaedia of Islam (1953, reprinted 1974), with articles taken from the larger work. Periodicals include Arabian Studies (annual); The Middle East and North Africa (annual); The Middle East Journal (quarterly); and Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies (annual).

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Add new Web site: The University of Arizona - Community College Outreach - The Geography of the Arabian Peninsula. Oct 25, 2024
Add new Web site: Pressbooks - Introduction to World Regional Geography - Arabian Peninsula. Feb 21, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Perspectives from the Arabian Peninsula. Feb 18, 2023
Updated the elevation of Mount Al-Nabī Shuʿayb. Sep 20, 2022
Add new Web site: Social Sci LibreTexts - Pre-Islamic Arabia. Sep 10, 2022
Corrected display issue. Nov 20, 2019
Media added. Aug 10, 2016
Article revised and updated. May 04, 2015
Changed Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf location from "northeast" to "east." Feb 19, 2013
Add new Web site: The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History - Arabia. Jan 23, 2013
Arabic romanization reviewed. Oct 31, 2012
Arabic romanization reviewed. Oct 31, 2012
Changed approximate land area of the Arabian Peninsula to 1,200,000 square miles (3,100,000 square kilometres). Dec 13, 2011
Updated geologic time data. May 17, 2010
Added new Web site: Country Studies - Topography and Natural Regions - The Arabian Peninsula. Aug 11, 2008
Added new Web site: Buzzle.com - Arabian horse. Jul 17, 2008
Article revised and updated. Jan 03, 2008
Article revised and updated. Dec 14, 2007
Article revised. Mar 10, 2005
Article revised. Apr 15, 2004
Article revised. Apr 17, 2003
Article added to new online database. Jul 28, 1999
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