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Recent and Forthcoming Publications |
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A complete list of AIYS publications appears elsewhere on this site. This page
features monographs that are currently in press or have recently appeared. All AIYS publications listed
here may be ordered from the Middle East Studies Association. In Yemen,
books may be purchased directly from AIYS.
Translations of Western-Language Research on Yemen into
Arabic
Click here for a detailed list of contents of the volumes in the series.
6. Challenging the Familiar: Anthropological and Historical Studies of Yemen (edited by Lucine
Taminian). Publication date December 2006. ISBN: 1-882557-14-X. $20.
Translations of Materials on Yemen into English
4. The Book of Sana'a (Kitab San'a), by Dr. 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Maqali (rev. Arabic version of the
edition published in 2000 by Riad el-Rayyes Books; translated into English by Bob Holman and Samuel
Liebhaber; introductions by S. Liebhaber, B. Holman, and Muhammad Abd al-Sallam Mansur; and
annotations by Christopher Edens). 2004 (iii+317pp). ISBN: 1-882-557-12-3. $15.
5. An Introduction to Hijrahs and Other Refuges of Learning in Yemen, by al-Qadi Isma'il
ibn 'Ali al-Akwa' (translated into English and introduced by Tim Mackintosh-Smith from the Arabic text of
Hijar al-'ilm wa ma'aqiluh fi 'l-yaman published by Dar al-Fiqr (Damascus) in 1995. Publication
date December 2006. (iv+62 pages). ISBN: 1-882557-15-8. $15.
Miscellaneous Research and Documentation Publications
Ma'alim al-zira'a fi-l-Yaman ("Agricultural Knowledge in Yemen"), by
Yahya Al-Ansi. Sana'a: Published jointly by the American Institute for
Yemeni Studies and the Centre Français d'Études Yéménites.
Volume 1: 1998 (iii+589 pp.; distributed by the French Center); volume 2: 2003 (591pp; distributed for
AIYS by MESA; $15). The traditional agricultural lore of Yemeni farmers is conserved in oral tradition
through the poems of two mythical persons, Ali Wald Zayid and Humayd b. Mansur. Together the two
volumes constitute the first study of this genre in the Arabic language.
The 'al-Hasan bin al-Qasim Mosque Complex: An Architectural and Historical
Overview of a Seventeenth Century Mosque in Dhuran, Yemen, by Bruce Paluck and Rayya
Saggar. Text in English and French with complete Arabic translation; published jointly by the
American Institute for Yemeni Studies and the Centre Français d'Archéologie et de
Sciences Sociales de Sanaa Sana'a: AIYS, 2002 (28 + 35 pp.). ISBN 1-882557-10-7. $20.
Social Issues in Popular Yemeni Culture, by Abd al-Rahman Mutahhar. Arabic text, plus
translation into English edited and annotated by Janet C.E. Watson. Sana'a: Social Fund for
Development, 2002. $18.
Visions of Yemen: A Filmography, by Thomas B. Stevenson. Ardmore: AIYS, 2003 (64 pp., illustr.).
ISBN 1-882557-11-5. $20.
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