1 Introduction
Part I: Analysis
2 Traditional Knowledge of the Stars
3 The Almanac Tradition
4 Calendar Systems of the Gulf Almanacs
5 Traditional Seasonal Knowledge
6 Range of Content in the Almanacs
7 Seasonal Activities on Land
8 Seasonal Activities on the Sea
9 The Future of Almanac Lore in the Gulf
Part II: Texts
10 Almanacs
11 The Canopus (Suhayl) Calender
12 The Pleiades Conjunction Calendar

13 Poetry

14 Proverbs

Daniel Martin Varisco is an anthropologist and historian with research experience in Yemen, Egypt and the Arab Gulf. He has written about Arabic folk astronomy and astrology, traditional agriculture and the history of the Arab almanac. He is currently President of the American Institute for Yemeni Studies.