Description
The symposium, held in Abu Dhabi from 1st to 7th of March 2002, featured distinguished scholars and researchers specialized in Arabian historical studies. Participants exchanged and presented wide-ranging information about Arabian history collected from the records and documents housed in various archives around the world. This publication, consisting of 16 lectures, provides in-depth information about Arabian history and its sources. The lectures demonstrated a wealth of information about the Gulf region recorded in the British documents and about the East Coast of the erstwhile Emirates in the early European records. They brought to light some important documents in the American National Archive, the presence of some Moroccan documents in a number of international archives and information about the rule of Turkey in the Gulf found in the German archives. The scope of the lectures also encompassed glimpses of Arabian history gleaned from the Portuguese documents in the Goa Archives and from the Italian documents in the Vatican and the Venice Archives.
