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Special Collections: Rare Books

This guide contains information about the special collections in the United Arab Emirates University Library

Rare Books

A modern pilgrim in Mecca and a siege in Sanaa

by Arthur John Byng Wavell 1882-1916.

Physical Description: Print Book, vi, 349 pages : map ; 22 cm.

Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1913.

Contents: An autobiographical depiction of the British army officer’s travels and trials in Arabia and East Africa near the turn of the 20th century

Arabia: the cradle of Islam : studies in the geography, people and politics of the Peninsula, with an account of Islam and mission-work

by Samuel Marinus Zwemer 1867-1952.

Publication: Edinburgh and London : Oliphant Anderson and Ferrier, [1900]

Edition:3rd ed., rev.

Physical Description:3 preliminary leaves, 437 pages : frontispiece, illustrations (including facsims.) plates, portraits, maps (some folded), plan ; 22 cm.

Contents: Written by an American religious intellectual, who lived in different areas of the Middle East from approximately 1890-1930.

Print Book [1900]

The last Punic war: Tunis, past and present with a narrative of the French conquest of the regency

by Alexander Meyrick Broadley 1847-1916.

Publication: Edinburgh, London; W. Blackwood and Sons, 1882.

Physical Description:2 volumes frontispieces, illustrations, plates, portraits, folded map, folded plan, facsimile 21 cm

Notes: Pagination: v.1: [vii], vii-xvi, 356, [2] p.; v.2: [iii-v], vi, [vii], [1], 398, [2] p.

From Egypt to Palestine through Sinai, the wilderness and the south country : observations of a journey made with special reference to the history of the Israelites

by Samuel Colcord Bartlett 1817-1898.

Publication: London : Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, Rivington, 1879.

Physical Description:555 pages : illustrations, folded map ; 22 cm

Contents: Written by a future President of Dartmouth College, this work is a Western and Christian-centric work concerning groups in and around the Sinai.

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About Persia and its people; a description of their manners, customs, and home life, including engagements, marriages, modes of traveling, forms of punishments, superstitions, etc.

by Joseph. Knanishu

Print Book 1899

OCLC Number: 456637

Call Numbers:

  • DS266 .K67 1899 - Main Library Rare Collection

al-Farooq : life of Omar the Great, the second caliph of Islam ...

by Shiblī Nuʻmānī 1857-1914.

Print Book 1939-

OCLC Number: 37214552

Call Numbers:

  • DS238.U5 S533 1939 - Main Library Rare Collection

Description of Mesopotamia and Baghdad written about the year 900 A.D.

by Ibn Serapion. , G. Le Strange (Guy), 1854-1933.

Print Book 1895

OCLC Number: 464158557

Call Numbers:

  • DS70.63 .I25 1895 - Main Library Rare Collection

Desert encounter; an adventurous journey through Italian Africa,

by Knud Holmboe 1902-1931., Helga Holbek 1897-

Print Book [1936]

OCLC Number: 813742

Call Numbers:

  • DT220 .H6213 1936 - Main Library Rare Collection

Said bin Sultan (1791-1856), ruler of Oman and Zanzibar : his place in the history of Arabia and East Africa

by Rudolph Said Ruete

Print Book 1929

OCLC Number: 5705061

Call Numbers:

  • DS247.O6 S3 1929 - Main Library Rare Collection

تاريخ إبن الوردي

by ابن الوردي، زين الدين عمر بن المظفر، ت. 1349., أبو الفدا إسماعيل بن علي، 1273-1331.

Print Book 1870؟]

OCLC Number: 1103733917

Call Numbers:

  • DS234 .A163 1870 - Main Library Rare Collection

كتاب الأعلام بأعلام بيت اللع الحرام :

by نهروالي، محمد بن أحمد، ت. 1580 أو 81.

Print Book 1274 هجرية، 1857 ميلادية]

OCLC Number: 1103720045

Call Numbers:

  • DS248.M4 N34 1857 - Main Library Rare Collection

كتاب المنتقى في أخبار أم القرى : و هي منتخبات من تاريخ مكة للإمام أبي عبد الله محمد بن إسحاق الفاكهي. و من شفاء الغرام بأخبار البلد الحرام للشيخ تقي الدين أبي الطيب محمد بن أحمد الفاسي. و من كتاب الجامع اللطيف في فضايل مكة و بناء البيت الشريف للشيخ جمال الدنيا و الدين محمد بن أمين [إبن ظهيرة]

by فاكهي، محمد بن إسحاق، ت. 885., فاسي، محمد بن أحمد، 1373 أو 4-1428 أو 9., ابن ظهيرة، محمد بن عبد الله، ت. 1552 أو 3.

Print Book 185-]

OCLC Number: 1103725866

Call Numbers:

  • DS248.M4 K58 1850z - Main Library Rare Collection

كتاب أخبار مكة شرفها الله تعالى و ما جاء فيها من الآثار

by ازرقي، محمد بن عبد الله، -تقريبا 865., خزاعي، إسحاق بن أحمد، 921.

Print Book 1858

OCLC Number: 1103830924

Call Numbers:

  • DS248.M4 A95 1858 - Main Library Rare Collection

كتاب تقويم البلدان

by أبو الفدا إسماعيل بن علي، 1273-1331.

Print Book 1840

OCLC Number: 1107067389

Call Numbers:

  • G93 .A105 1840 - Main Library Off Campus_Reference
  • G93 .A105 1840 - Main Library Rare Collection

كتاب زبدة كشف الممالك و بيان الطرق و المسالك /‪

by ابن شاهين، خليل،‪ 1410 أو 1468 أو 9.‪

Print Book 1894

OCLC Number: 1107147312

Call Numbers:

  • DS38.7 .I27 1894 - Main Library Rare Collection

نخب تاريخية و أدبية جامعة لأخبار الأمير سيف الدولة الحمداني

by Marius. Canard

Print Book 1934

OCLC Number: 1103728448

Call Numbers:

  • DS97 .C3 1934 - Main Library Rare Collection

Arabia before Muhammad

by De Lacy O’Leary 1872-1957.

Physical Description: Print Book, ix, 234 pages : maps ; 21 cm.

London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.; New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1927.

Contents: Written by a British Orientalist historian, this work discusses the regions and peoples of pre-Islamic Arabia.

Arabia Felix : across the "empty quarter" of Arabia

by Bertram Thomas 1892-1950., Arthur Keith Sir, 1866-1955.

Physical Description: Print Book, xvi, 397 pages, [13] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, maps (1 folded), diagrams ; 24 cm.

London: Alden Press, Oxford, for Readers’ Union Limited, Charing Cross, 1938.

Contents: Written by English diplomat and explorer, Bertram Thomas, and Scottish anthropologist, Sir Arthur Keith, the book describes an expedition across the Empty Quarter, during 1930-1931, and details the areas inhabitants, culture, flora, and fauna.

The story of the khedivate

by Edward Dicey 1832-1911.

Print Book 1902

Publication: London : Rivingtons, 1902.

Physical Description:xv, 539 pages ; 23 cm

Travels through Arabia, and other countries in the East

by Carsten Niebuhr 1733-1815.

Print Book 1792

Publisher: Edinburgh : Morison And Son, 1792.

The lost oasis

by Ahmed Mohammed Hassanein 1889-

Print Book [1925]

Publication: London, T. Butterworth [1925]

Physical Description: 316 pages plates, portraits, map 23 cmMore Author / Title Information:by A.M. Hassanein Bey. Introduction by Sir Rennell Rodd.

Observations on the passage to India, through Egypt

by James Capper 1743-1825.

Publication: London : Printed for W. Faden, 1785.

Edition:3rd ed., with alterations and additions. Physical Description:1 online resource (xxxvi, 270, [15] pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps

Notes: Includes: Supplement containing lists of the stages in the different routs [sic] from England to Bassora ...