YEMEN UPDATE
YEMEN REVIEWS
 Cumulative Index to Yemen Update Reviews
 
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