Venetia Porter is currently a Curator of the Islamic collections in the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum. She studied Arabic and Islamic Art at Oxford and did her Ph.D on 'The history and monuments of the Taharid dynasty of Yemen' with Professor G. Rex Smith at the University of Durham. She is also Chairman of the Seminar of Arabian Studies.

John Healey is Professor of Semitic Studies in the University of Manchester. His research has been concentrated on Ugaritc and Aramaic studies, especially epigraphy and religion.

A collection of essays written in honour of Professor G. Rex Smith, arabist, historian, and scholar of the medieval history of the Yemen, on aspects of the pre-Islamic and Islamic history of Arabia and the Yemen written by a group of international scholars.

• Professor G. Rex Smith


• Published works of Professor G. Rex Smith


• Muhammad (Al-Badh) b. Ahmad b. Yahya Hamid Al-Din


• Al-Gerrha, the Port of 'Qaryat' al-Fau


• The South Arabian coast and the ancient trade routes


• Building design in Wadi Hajr Hadramawt


• Customary law, Islamic law and Yemeni sharecropping


• Al-Say'ar: A social anthropological sketch of a South Arabian tribe


• Nabataeo-Arabic: Jaussen-Savignac nab. 17 and 18


• The Prophet Mohammad and the breaking of the Jahiliyah Idols


• A new perspective on the phenomenom of mirror-image writing in Arabic calligraphy


• The selection, instruction and examination of the student interpreters of the Levant consular service 1877-1916


• Pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions from Sakakah, Saudi Arabia


• The ports of the Yemen and the Indian Ocean during the Tahirid Period (1454-1517)


• Vers une meilleure connaissance de l'histoire politique et religieuse de Kaminahu


• Zabid: the round city of Yemen


• Une version Soqotri de la legende de Abu Sawarib


• Suleyman Pasha's lost opportunity in India


• Bayan as a principle of taxonomy: linguistic elements in Jahiz's thinking


• New Nabataean inscriptions from Qa al-Mu'atadel


• Two rock inscriptions relating to the Yu-firid dynasty of the Yemen


• Agriculture in Rasulid Zabid


• The City of Upper Jizan in the light of the tombstone inscription dated 686/1416