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By Malcolm C. Peck

the second one version of the old Dictionary of the Gulf Arab States comes at a time while the world's awareness is riveted at the heart East. The small states coated during this volume_Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)_possess approximately 20 percentage of the world's overall oil reserves. past the strategic and fiscal significance conferred upon them by way of their tremendous oil reserves, the Gulf Arab states are invaluable of cognizance for the inherent curiosity in their historical past and tradition. No sector of the area has yielded extra revealing and fascinating archaeological reveals long ago few a long time than those states. Investigations have dropped at mild wide facts of an immense tradition as outdated as Egypt of the Pharaohs or historical Babylon, which was once almost unknown formerly other than via infrequent references within the files of different civilizations. This elevated moment variation covers the historical past of the 5 nations via a chronology damaged down via state, an inventory of acronyms and abbreviations, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and several other hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on vital folks, areas, and occasions of every state. every little thing from the Abbasids to Zubarah is roofed during this crucial reference in this more and more vital quarter of the world.

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