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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.

By: Aḥmad ibn Mājid al-Saʻdī, active 1462-1498 Contributor(s): Tibbetts, G. R. (Gerald Randall)Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Arabic Series: Oriental Translation Fund, London. Publications: new ser., v. 42.Publication details: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2017Edition: Special Indian editionDescription: xxvi, 614 p., [14 unnumbered pages of maps] ill. 21 cmISBN: 9781138745216Uniform titles: Fawāʼid fī uṣūl ʻilm al-baḥr wa-al-qawāʻid. English Subject(s): Indian Ocean -- Navigation -- Early works to 1800DDC classification: 890/.8 s | 527/.09165

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	French Institute of Pondicherry	IFP Social Science collection	HIST 3779 (Browse shelf (Opens below))	Available		SS21671

Includes index. Originally published: London : Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1971 [i.e. 1972]

Bibliography: p. xix-xxvi.

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