No. 41 1999

 

Contents

Articles

McCorriston, Joy

Roots of Agriculture in South Arabia. University of Minnesota Archaeological Expedition in Yemen, February-March 1998 YU 41 (1999)

 

Book Excerpt

 

al-Shamrookh, Nayef

The Commerce and Trade of the Rasulids in the Yemen, 630-858/1231-1454 YU 41: (1999)

Yemen Reviews

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)]

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)]

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)]

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)]

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)]

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)]

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)]