Freddie Beeston Online Exhibition

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The Beeston exhibition was held in the Clore Centre, British Museum
from 21-23 July 2005 during the Seminar for Arabian Studies.

Beeston Publications

Archaeopress has recently reprinted a number of A.F.L. Beeston's works

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A.F.L. Beeston at the Arabian Seminar and other Papers
edited by M.C.A. Macdonald and C.S. Phillips. ISBN 095399239X. £20.00.
viii+179 pages; illustrated with maps, plans, drawings and photographs. A new edition of 21 of Beeston's contributions to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies , with the addition of five previously unpublished works. A personal reminiscence by W.W. Müller and a revised and updated bibliography of Beeston are also included.

Sabaic Grammar by A.F.L. Beeston. ISBN n/a. (First published by the Journal of Semitic Studies in 1984). Reprinted by Archaeopress in 2005. 81 pages; paperback. £7.00.

A Descriptive Grammar of Epigraphic South Arabian by A.F.L. Beeston. ISBN n/a. (First published by Luzac and Co Ltd in 1962). Reprinted by Archaeopress in 2005. 80 pages; paperback. £7.00.

Qahtan. Studies in Old South Arabian Epigraphy by A.F.L. Beeston. ISBN n/a. (First published in three fascicules by Luzac and Co Ltd in 1959, 1971, and 1976). Reprinted by Archaeopress in 2005.
72 pages; paperback. £9.00.

Epigraphic South Arabian Calendars and Dating by A.F.L. Beeston. ISBN n/a. (First published by Luzac and Co in 1956). Reprinted by Archaeopress in 2005. 50 pages; paperback. £5.00.

The Arabic Language Today by A. F. L. Beeston. ISBN n/a. (First published by Hutchinson and Co Ltd in 1970). Reprinted by Archaeopress in 2005. 125 pages; paperback. £10.00.

Selections from the Poetry of Bashshar . Edited with an introduction and commentary by A.F.L. Beeston. ISBN n/a. (First published by Cambridge University Press in 1977). Reprinted by Archaeopress in 2005. 90 pages; paperback. £8.00.

Baidawi's Commentary on Surah 12 of the Qur'an. Text accompanied by an interpretative rendering and notes by A.F.L. Beeston. ISBN n/a. (First published by Oxford University Press in 1963). Reprinted by Archaeopress in 2005. 98 pages; £9.00

Arabic Nomenclature. A summary guide for beginners by A.F.L. Beeston. ISBN n/a. (First published by Oxford University Press in 1971). Reprinted by Archaeopress in 2005. 8 pages; staple-bound. £2.00.

Other Beeston works available from Archaeopress

The Epistle on Singing-Girls by Jahiz . Edited with translation and commentary by A.F.L. Beeston. (Approaches to Arabic Literature: Studies and Translations, 2). Warminster: Aris and Phillips, 1980. Available from Archaeopress.

Sabaic Dictionary (English-French-Arabic) by A.F.L. Beeston, M.A. Ghul, W.W. Müller and J. Ryckmans. (Publication of the University of Sanaa, YAR). Louvain-la-Neuve: Peeters / Beyrouth: Librairie du Liban, 1982.

Related works

Christian Julien Robin and Muhammad 'Abd al-Qadir Bafaqih (eds). 1987. Sayhadica. Recherches sur les inscriptions de l'Arabie préislamique offerts par ses collègues au Professeur A.F.L. Beeston . (L'Arabie préislamique, 1). Paris: Geuthner.

Alan Jones (ed.) 1991. Arabicus Felix: Luminosus Britannicus. Essays in Honour of A.F.L. Beeston on his Eightieth Birthday . (Oxford Oriental Institute Monographs, 11). Reading: Ithaca Press. ISBN 0 86372 145. £26.00.

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Obituary - Alfred Felix Landon Beeston: 1911-1995 by by D. S. Richards (Source: British-Yemeni Society )

A.F.L. Beeston (1911-1995) by Lawrence I. Conrad (Source: Al-`Usur a'-Wusta Vol. 8, No. 1 April, 1996 - Yemen Update 39 (1997): 29-31)

(Source: Chroniques Yéménites )

Beeston Scholarship ( Source: St. Johns College , Oxford University)

Oriental Institute, University of Oxford

British Academy