Arab navigation in the Indian Ocean before the coming of the Portuguese
Subtitle: 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: by G. R. Tibbetts
Contributors: Tibbetts, G. R. (Gerald Randall)
Series: Oriental Translation Fund -- new ser., v. 42; Oriental Translation Fund (Series) -- v. 42
Publisher: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1981.
Published: 1981
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; ara
Number of pages: 614
Subjects: Navigation; Early works to 1800
Work titles: Fawāʼid fī uṣūl ʻilm al-baḥr wa-al-qawāʻid
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. xix-xxvi.