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SERJEANT (R. B.). THE Portuguese off the South Arabian Coast. Oxford. 1963. - SERJEANT (R. B.) THE Portuguese off the South Arabian Coast . Hadrami Chronicles. With Yemeni and European accounts of Dutch pirates off Mocha in the seventeeth century. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1963. X, 234 pp.: il.; 220 mm. Edition and translation of Hadramite chronicles about the Portuguese presence on the southern coast of Arabia during the 16th century, accompanied by Yemeni and European accounts of Dutch piracy in the 17th century. This work documents one of the most dramatic periods in the history of southern Arabia: the conflicts between the Portuguese and the Egyptian Mamluks and, later, their Ottoman successors, as well as with local powers and potentates, along the coast of Hadramaut and Yemen. It is based on little-known Arabic sources in the West, translated and annotated by the British Arabist RB Serjeant, a specialist in the region. A reference work for the study, based on Arabic sources, of the Portuguese presence and military activity in southern Arabia and the Red Sea. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate