	He wrote the first "English-Maldivian dictionary": this complied with the Maldive Government’s 1970’s then Roman-transliteration scheme. The material was available to academics from the 1970s, and finally published in 432 pages with 5000 individual entries in 2003. The dictionary complemented his 1993 150-page "Maldives (World Bibliographical Series number 158)" book.