Arab navigation in the Indian Ocean before the coming of the Portuguese : being a translation of Kitāb al-Fawāʾid fī uṣūl al-baḥr waʾl-qawāʾid 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

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Arab navigation in the Indian Ocean before the coming of the Portuguese : being a translation of Kitāb al-Fawāʾid fī uṣūl al-baḥr waʾl-qawāʾid 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

(Oriental translation fund, new ser. v. 42)

Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1971

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Fawāʾid fī uṣūl ʿilm al-baḥr wa-al-qawāʿid

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Seven folded maps in pocket

Bibliography: p. xix-xxvi

Includes indexes

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