King's Dictionary

Aden, of old one of the main Eurasian ports for goods from China, Southeast Asia and India on their way to the Mediterranean lands, was controlled during the 13th - 15th centuries by the Rasulid dynasty. One of their kings, al-Malik al-Afdal al- 'Abbas b. 'Ali (1363-1377) wrote multilingual glossaries (vocabularia) of extraordinary importance, universally termed the Rasulid Hexaglot. Its emergence...