- YEMEN UPDATE
YEMENREVIEWS - Cumulative Index to Yemen Update Reviews
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- al-Adimi, Muhammad 'Uthman Thabit
- Al-Tharwa al-Yamaniya min al-amthal al-sha'biya. Sanaa, 1989. Reviewed by D. M. Varisco YU 28/29 (1991):26
- Aithie, Charles and Patricia
- Yemen: Jewel of Arabia. London: Stacey International, 2001. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 43 (2001)
- al-'Arashî , Qadi Husayn ibn Ahmad
- Bulûgh al-maram fî sharh mask al-khitâm fî man tawalla mulk al-Yaman min mulk wa-imâm, 1939. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 25(1989):12; 26(1989):7
- Auchterlonie, Paul
- Yemen. Revised Edition.
- The World Bibliographic Series, 50. Oxford: Clio Press, 1998, xxii, 348, map, indexes. Reviewed by D. M. Varisco YU 40 (1998):45-47
- Bidwell, Robin
- Travellers in Arabia. London: Garnet Publishing Ltd. 1994. Reviewed by Thomas B. Stevenson YU 37(1995):35
- Reviewed by D. M. Varisco [YU 40 (1998):45-47
- Bonnefant, Paul (ed.)
- Sanaa: architecture domestique et société. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 1995. Reviewed by Noha Sadek YU 42 (2000:70).
- Bonnenfant, Paul (ed.)
- Zabîd: Patrimoine Mondial. Volume 5-6 of Saba. Paris: Unesco and World Heritage, 1999. Reviewed by Noha Sadek YU 42 (2000:70).
- Borelli, Caterina
- The Architecture of Mud [film]. Reviewed by Edward J. Keall YU 42 (2000:62.67)
- Breton, Jean-François
- Arabia Felix from the Time of the Queen of Sheba: Eighth Century B.C. to First Century A.D. Translated by Albert Lafarge. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000 [1998]. Reviewed by Joy McCorriston YU 44 (2002).
- Brouwer, C.G.
- Dutch-Yemeni Encounters: Activities of the United East India Company (VOC) in South Arabian Waters since 1614. Amsterdam: D'Fluyte Rarob, 1998. ISBN 90-800257-8-6. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 42 (2000:58-61)
- Brouwer, C. G.
- Al-MUKHA. Profile of a Yemeni Seaportas Sketched by Servants of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) 1614-1640. Amsterdam: D'Fluyte Rarob, 1997. 509 pp, maps, photos, indexes. ISBN 90-300267-6-X. Reviewed by D. M. Varisco YU 40 (1998):48-52
- Brunner, Ueli
- Jemen: Von Weihrauch zum Erdöl. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 1999. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 42 (2000:68-69)
- Canova, Giovanni
- Ta'labî Storia di Bilqîs regina di Saba. Venice: Marsilio, 2000. ISBN 88-317-7383-6. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 42 (2000:69-70)
- Cockburn, Andrew
- Yemen United, National Geographic 197:4 (April, 2000), 30-53. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 42 (2000)
- Crociani, Paola
- Portraits of Yemen. Cairo: Hoopoe Books, 1996. Reviewed by D. M. Varisco YU 39 (1997):38-39
- Crouch, Michael
- An Element of Luck: To South Arabia and Beyond. New York: Radcliffe Press (St. Martin's Press), 1993. Reviewed by Thomas B. Stevenson YU 36(1995):32-33
- Dammaj, Zayd Mutee'
- The Hostage [Al-Rahina]. Translated from the Arabic by May Jayyusi and Christopher Tingley. New York: Interlink Books, 1994. Reviewed by Steven C. Caton[YU 36(1995):34
- Damluji, Salma Samar
- A Yemen Reality. Reading: Garnet Publishing Ltd, 1991. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 34(1994):37-38
- Detalle, Renaud, editor
- Tensions in Arabia: The Saudi-Yemeni Fault Line. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2000. Reviewed by Sheila Carapico YU 43 (2001)
- Dresch, Paul
- A History of Modern Yemen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Reviewed by W. Flagg Miller YU 44 (2002)
- Elgood, Robert
- The Arms and Armour of Arabia in the 18th-19th and 20th Centuries. Aldershot, England: Scolar Press, 1994. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 37(1995):38-41
- El Guindi, Fadwa
- Veil: Modesty, Privacy and Resistance. Oxford: Berg, 1999. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 43 (2001)
- Freitag, Ulrike and William G. Clarence-Smith, editors,
- Hadhrami Traders, Scholars and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s-1960s. Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia, vol. 57. Leiden: Brill, 1997. x, 392 pp. ISBN: 90-04 10771 1 LC# JV8750.5.H33 1997. Reviewed by D. M. Varisco YU40 (1998):59-62
- al-Fusayl, Yahyâ Lutf
- Dahd al-shubuhât hawl al-qât, Sanaa, n.d. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 24(1988):7
- Gause III, F. Gregory
- Saudi-Yemeni Relations: Domestic Structures and Foreign Influences. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990, and Oil Monarchies: Domestic and Security Challenges in the Arab Gulf States. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1994. Reviewed Robert D. Burrowes YU 35(1994):40,41
- Gingrich, Andre and Sylvia Haas and Gabriele Paleczek andThomas Fillitz, editors
- Studies in Oriental Culture and History: Festscrift for Walter Dostal .Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1993. Reviewed by Daniel Martin VariscoYU 35(1994):42-43
- Glander, Annelies
- Inheritance in Islam: Women's Inheritance in San'a (Republic of Yemen): Law, Religion, and Reality, 1998. European University Studies, Series XXVII, Asian and African Studies, 69. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 141 pp., bibliography. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 43 (2001)
- Grant, Gillian
- Middle Eastern Photographic Collections in the United Kingdom. Middle East Libraries Committee Research Guides, 1989 . Reviewed by Barbara Evans YU 43 (2001)
- Grotenhuis, Walther
- Bab al Yemen: Gateway to Yemen, videotape, Olympic Films, 1993. Reviewed by Thomas B. Stevenson YU 39 (1997):40-41
- Halliday, Fred
- Arabs in Exile: Yemeni Migrants in Urban Britain. London: I.B. Tauris, 1992. Reviewed by Tim Morris YU 34 (1994):42,44
- Hansen, Eric
- Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. ISBN0-395-48347-6. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 41 (1999:32-50)
- Harrison, David and Paul J. J. Bates
- The Mammals of Arabia. Kent: Harrison Zoological Museum, 1991. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 33 (1993):28-29
- Hepper, F. Nigel and I. Friis
- The Plants of Pehr Forsskål's Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica. Kew, Royal Botanical Gardens, 1994. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 33(1993):22
- Hestler, Anna
- Cultures of the World: Yemen. Singapore: Times Books International, 1999, 128 pp. ISBN 981 204 868 5. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 41 (1999)
- al-Hibshî, Abdallâh
- Thalâth rasâ'il fî al-qât, Manshûrat al-Madîna, Sanaa, 1986. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 24(1988):7
- al-Himyarî, 'Îsâ ibn Ibrâhîm al-Rab'î al-Wuhâzî
- Nizâm al-gharîb fî al-lugha, Damascaus, 1980. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 25(1989):15-16.
- Horwitz, Tony
- Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia. New York: Plume, 1992. ISBN 0-452-26745-5. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 41 (1999)
- Katz, Mark N.
- Middle Eastern Sketches. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. 1997. 155 pages. ISBN 0-7618-0776-4. Reviewed by Thomas B. Stevenson YU 41(1999)
- Lassner, Jacob
- Demonizing the Queen of Sheba: Boundaries of Gender and Culture in Postbiblical Judaism and Medieval Islam. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1993. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 35(1994):31-32
- Ma Huan.
- Ying-yai Shen-lan, "The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores" [1433]. Translated and edited by J.V. G. Mills. Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society, Extra Series No. XLII, 1970 . Reviewed by Barbara Evans YU 43 (2001)
- Mackintosh-Smith, Tim
- Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land. London: John Murray, 1997. ISBN 0-7195-5622-8. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 41 (1999:32-50)
- Mansûr, Hamûd
- Qabîlî fî al-Sîn wa-Buldân Ukhrâ, Damascus: Dar al-Fikr, 1986. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 24(1988):13
- Marchand, Trevor
- Minaret Building and Apprenticeship in Yemen, Richmond: Curzon, 2001. Reviewed by Cynthia Myntti YU 44 (2002).
- al-Marzuqi, Humad/Hamd and Ahmad Nabil Abu Khatwa, editors
- Al-Qat (Jedda, Tihama Publications, 1407-1987. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 25(1989):13
- Meneley, Anne
- Tournaments of Value: Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Reviewed by D. M. Varisco YU 40 (1998):55-57
- Messick, Brinkley
- The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society.
- Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco
- YU 46(1995):24-25
- Naumkin, Vitaly
- Island of the Phoenix: An Ethnographic Study of the People of Socotra. Translated by Valerie A. Epstein. Reading, Ithaca Press, 1993. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 34 (1994): 40-41
- Niebuhr, Carsten
- Travels through Arabia and Other Countries of the East. Translated by Robert Heron. Reading: Garnet, 1994. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 37(1995):28-31
- Nini, Yehuda
- The Jews of the Yemen, 1800-1914. Translated from Hebrew by H. Galai. Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1991. Reviewed by Daniel J. Schroeter
- YU 35(1994):28-30
- Orth, Guenther
- Die Farbe des Regens'- Entstehung und Entwicklung der modernen jemenitischen Kurzgeschichte - Muhammad Abdalwali, Zaid Muti' Dammag und Ahmad Mahfuz Umar. Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Band 209. Berlin: Klaus Schwarze Verlag, 1997. 248pp. ISBN 3-87997-261-3. Reviewed by Kathrin Gundel YU 41 (1999)
- Ory, Solange
- De l'Or du Sultan à la Lumière d'Allah : La Mosquée Al-'Abbas à Asnaf (Yémen), with contributions by Bernard Maury and Christian Robin. Damascus : Institut Français d'Études Arabes de Damas and Centre Français d'Études Yéménites, 1999. Reviewed by Noha Sadek YU 42 (2000:70).
- Overstreet, W.A., Grolier, M.J., and Toplyn, M.R.
- Geological and Archaeological Renaissance in the Yemen Arab Republic, Washington D.C.: American Foundation for the Study of Man. The Wadi el-Jubah Archaeological Project, Volume 4, 1988. Reviewed by John A. Van Couvering YU 26(1989):3,5
- Paluch, Marta, editor
- Yemeni Voices: Women Tell Their Stories. Sanaa, Yemen: The British Council, Yemen, 2001. Reviewed by Janine A. Clark YU 44 (2002)
- Piamenta, Moshe
- Dictionary of Post-Classical Yemeni Arabic. Leiden, Brill, two parts, xxiv, 541 pp, 1990-91.
- Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 34(1994):34-36,44
- Pieragostini, Karl
- Britain, Aden and South Arabia: Abandoning Empire. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Reviewed by F. Gregory Gause III YU 35(1994):33-35
- Preen, Anthony and Helene Marsh and George E. Heinsohn
- Recommendations for the Conservation and Management of Dugong in the Arabian Region. MEPA, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 1989. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco
- YU 33(1993):27
- The Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, vol. 24, 1994.
- Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 35(1994):42-43]
- Qafisheh , Hamdi A.
- Yemeni Arabic Reference Grammar. Kensington, Md: Dunwoody Press, 1992. Reviewed by Janet C. E. Watson YU 37(1995):42-42
- Rushby, Kevin
- Eating the Flowers of Paradise: One Man's Journey through Ethiopia and Yemen. N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1999 ISBN 0-312-21794-3. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 41 (1999:32-50)
- al-Saud, Noura bint Muhammad and Al-Jawharah Muhammad al-'Anqari and Madeha Muhammad al-'Ajroush,
- Abha Bilad Asir: Southwestern Region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1989. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 37(1995):36-37
- Schippmann, Klaus
- Ancient South Arabia: From the Queen of Sheba to the Advent of Islam. Translated by Allison Brown. 2001 [1998]. Princeton: Marcus Wiener Publishers, 2001 [1998]. Reviewed by Joy McCorriston YU 44 (2002).
- Scholte, Paul, Abdu Wali Al Khuleidi, Jan Joost Kessler
- The Vegetation of the Republic of Yemen (Western Part). the Netherlands: DHV Consultants for Environmenal Protection Council and Agricultural Research Authority, 1991. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 33(1993):23
- Serjeant, R. B.
- Customary and Shari'ah Law in Arabian Society. Hampshire: Variorum, 1991. Reviewed by D. M. Varisco YU 30/31 (1992):39
- Serjeant, R. B., R. L. Bidwell, and G. R. Smith, editors
- New Arabian Studies, Vol. 1. Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1993. ISBN 0 85989 408 8. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 35(1994):38-39
- Skobeleff, Alexandra
- Light and Shadows: Memories of Yemen. Portland: Mandaville Associates, 1994.
- Reviewed by Daniel Martin VariscoYU 36(1995):26-27
- Smith, G. Rex, J. R. Smart and B. R. Pridham, editors
- New Arabian Studies. Volume 4. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1997. ISBN 0 85989 522 1. Reviewed by D. M. Varisco YU 40 (1998):65-67
- Smith, G. Rex, J. R. Smart and B. R. Pridham, editors
- New Arabian Studies. Volume 5. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2000. ISBN 0 85989 645 5. Reviewed by D. M. Varisco YU 42 (2000)
- Stager, Lawrence E., Joseph A. Greene, and Michael D. Coogan, editors.
- The Archaeology of Jordan and Beyond: Essays in Honor of James Sauer. Harvard Semitic Museum Publications Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant 1, 2000. Reviewed by Joy McCorriston YU 43 (2001)
- Tobi, Yosef
- The Jews of Yemen: Studies in their History and Culture. Études sur le Judaïsme Médiéval, 21. Brill: Leiden, 1999, x, 302 pp. ISBN 90 04 11254 0. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 41 (1999:53-55)
- Tuchscherer, Michel (editor)
- Le commerce du café avant l'ère des plantations coloniales: espaces, réseaux, sociétés (xve-xixe siècle). Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 2001. Cahier des annales islamologiques 20-2001. YU 44 (2002).
- Tuchscherer, Michel (editor)
- Le Yémen, passé et présent de l'unité. M. Tuchscherer (editor) Revue du Monde Musulman et de la Méditerranée vol. 67, 1993. Reviewed by David A. Warburton YU 36(1995):30-32
- Tuchscherer, Michel (translator)
- Imams, notables et bédouins du Yémen au xviiie siècle ou Quintessence de l'or du règne de Cherif Muhammad B. Ahmad: Chronique de 'Abd al-Rahman b. Hasan al-Bahkali. TAEI, xxx. Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire, 1992. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 37(1995):32-33
- 'Ubadi, Nabil 'Abd al-Latif
- al-Tuyur al-Yamaniya. Namadhij min tuyur jumhuriya al-Yaman al-dimuqratiya al-sha'biya. Singapore: Kerjaya Printing Industries, 1989. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 33(1993):22
- Varisco, Daniel Martin
- Medieval Agriculture and Islamic Science: The Almanac of a Yemeni Sultan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994. Reviewed by David A. King YU 36(1995):36,45
- Varisco, Daniel Martin and G. Rex Smith, editors
- The Manuscript of al-Malik al-Afdal al-'Abbâs b. 'Alî b. Dâ'ûd b. Yûsuf b. 'Umar b. 'Alî ibn Rasûl &endash; A Medieval Anthology from the Yemen, Aris & Phillips Ltd, Warminster, Wiltshire, U.K., for the E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Trust, 1998. YU 44 (2002)
- al-Waysi, Husain Ali
- al-Yaman al-Kubra. Cairo: Matba'at al-Nahda al-'Arabiyya, 1962. Reviewd by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 34(1994):45
- Wood, J. R. I.
- A Handbook of the Yemen Flora. With color illustrations by Hugo Haig-Thomas. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. UK. ISBN 1 900347 31 8. Price: £85, 434 pages with 40 color plates, 1997. Reviewed by Paul Scholte YU 40 (1998):53,62
- Watson, Janet C. E.
- A Syntax of San'ani Arabic. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 1993. Reviewed by Daniel Martin Varisco YU 35(1994):31-32
- Watson, Janet C. E.
- Sbahtu! A Course in San'ani Arabic. Semitica Viva: Series Didactica, 3. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1996. xxvii, 324 pp., glossary, index ISBN 3-447-03755-5. Reviewed by D. M.Varisco YU 40(1998):63-64
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