Professor Dionisius A. Agius FBA
Publications
Books
The Life of the Red Sea Dhow: A Cultural History of Islamic Seaborne Exploration, London, I. B. Tauris, 2013. Full Article Publisher Website
with J Abela, M Borg, F Ciappara, C Dalli, M Lahlali, J Muscat, J Schiro, M Zammit, Agius DA (eds) Georgio Scala and the Moorish Slaves: The Inquisition in Malta 1598, Malta, Midsea Books Ltd, 2012. Full Article Publisher Website
with J Boissevain, J Cooper, C Westerdahl, E Lasithiotaki, R Glusman, T Selwyn, E Carbonell, I Berg, A Brody, C Gugliuzzo et al, Agius DA,Nash H,Gambin T (eds) Ships, Saints and Sealore: Maritime Cultural Heritage of the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, Malta, Midsea Books Lts, 2011.
Classic Ships of Islam: From Mesopotamia to the Indian Ocean, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 2008.
Seafaring in the Arabian Gulf and Oman: People of the Dhow, London: Kegan Paul Limited, 2005.
In the Wake of the Dhow: The Arabian Gulf and Oman, Garnet-Ithaca Press, 2002.
Chapters
“I am a galley slave”, in Agius DA (eds) Slaves and Society in Malta 1598: Georgio Scala and the Inquisition, Malta: Midsea Books Ltd, 2012
The Moors and the Portuguese: Sea charts and navigational skills, in Hulster KD,Steenbergen JV (eds) in Continutity and Change in the Realms of Islam. Studies in Honour of Professor Urbain Vermeulen, Leuven: Peeters, Belgium, 2008, 1-9
Conferences
with J Cooper, JJV Rensburg, C Zazzaro, The dhow’s last redoubt? Vestiges of wooden boatbuilding traditions in Yemen,, , vol. 40, 2010, 1-14 Full Article Publisher Website
with H Nash, Folk astronomy in Omani agriculture, , 2011, 166-171 Full Article Publisher Website DOI
People of the sea and tradtional craft of the Emirates: Voices of the past, , vol. New Perspectives on Recording UAE History, 2009, 249-264 Full Article Publisher Website
with H Nash, Star charts from Oman, , no. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 2010 Full Article
The Moors and the Portuguese: Sea charts and navigational skills, , vol. Continutity and Change in the Realms of Islam. Studies in Honour of Professor Urbain Vermeulen, no. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 171, 2008, 1-9 Full Article
Journal articles
The Rashayda: Ethnic identity and dhow activity in Suakin on the Red Sea coast, Northeast African Studies, 2012 Publisher Website
with H Nash, The use of stars in agriculture in Oman, Journal of Semitic Studies, vol. 56, no. 1, 2011, 167-182 Publisher Website
with JP Cooper, L Semaan, C Zazzaro, The MARES Project Survey of Jizan and the Farasan Islands. Ethnography Part 1, Al-Atlal
