The Abdulaziz al-Maqaleh Book Award for Yemeni Heritage
جائزة عبد العزيز المقالح لطباعة الكتاب في التراث والثقافة اليمنية
Deadline for the 2024 award is December 31, 2023
The 2023 award will be announced in April.
AIYS announces a competition for funding the publication of academic research books in Arabic by Yemeni scholars in Yemen. We recognize the difficult situation Yemeni scholars currently face and want to provide assistance for publishing their research. Yemeni scholars with a draft book or monograph in the humanities, arts or social sciences ready for publication should submit their manuscript (in Word or pdf) and fill out the submission form below. Preference will be given to books that focus on Yemeni heritage. Submissions will be reviewed by a publication committee of AIYS members.
يعلن المعهد الأميركي للدراسات اليمنية عن المنافسة لطباعة كتب أكاديمية باللغة العربية للباحثين اليمنيين في اليمن. إننا ندرك الوضع الصعب الذي يواجه الباحثين اليمنين في الوقت الراهن ونريد تقديم المساعدة لنشر بحوثهم. الباحثين اليمنين الذين لديهم مسودة كتاب أو دراسة في مجال العلوم الإنسانية, الآداب أو العلوم الاجتماعية جاهزة للطباعة والنشر ويريدون نشرها عليهم تقديم مخطوط الكتاب او الدراسة في ملف ورود أوبي دي أف (Word or pdf) وتعبئة استمارة تقديم الطلب الموجودة أدناه. سيتم منح الأفضلية للكتب التي تركز على الموروث التاريخي والثقافي اليمني. وسيتم تقييم ومراجعة الطلبات من قبل لجنة النشر المكونة من أعضاء المعهد الأميركي للدراسات اليمنية. الموعد النهائي لتقديم الطلبات خلال هذه الدورة هو١ نوفمبر ٢٠٢٢. المعهد الأميركي للدراسات اليمنية سوف يقدم تمويل الطباعة والنشر في اليمن.
Submission Guidelines
You may submit your proposal in English or Arabic
يمكنك تقديم اقتراحك باللغة الإنجليزية أو العربية
Name:
email contact:
Affiliation:
Highest Academic Degree: (place, field, date)
Field of research:
Title of book manuscript:
Abstract of proposed book: (no more than 250 words)
Please submit a pdf copy of your book manuscript along with the submission form to info@aiys.org. Your manuscript will be reviewed by the committee but not distributed to anyone else and will remain private.
الاسم:
الأميل:
الوظيفة الأكاديمية للباحث:
الدرجة الأكاديمية الأعلى: (مكان الحصول عليها, المجال والتاريخ)
مجال الدراسة المراد نشرها:
عنون مخطوط الكتاب:
نبذة مختصرة عن الكتاب ( لا تتجاوز 250 كلمة)
يرجي تقديم نسخة في ملف
( pdf)
من مخطوط الكتاب مع هذه الاستمارة الي
info@aiys.org
سيتم مراجعة وتقييم المخطوط من قبل اللجنة لكن لن يتم توزيعها الى أي شخص آخر وسيبقى المخطوط خاصا غير معلن لأحد
AIYS Book Awards are available as a book in Yemen, but it is not possible to ship copies outside Yemen at this time. Individuals outside of Yemen may obtain a pdf copy of the text by making a donation of at least $25 to AIYS. The proceeds from this donation will be used to support future book awards. This Book Award is currently one of the only sources of funding for scholarly book publication in Arabic in Yemen.
If you want to order a pdf copy, please do the following.
1. Make your donation here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/aiys
2. Notify the AIYS Webshaykh (info@aiys.org) that you have made a donation of at least $25 and provide your name and email address.
3. We ask that you do not distribute the pdf but let others know that they can order their own copy with a donation. This will ensure that we can continue to provide funding for future book award to Yemeni scholars in Yemen.
2023 Award
Ahmad Sharf Sa'id Al-Hakimi
معجم لغوي في لهجة المعافر وتراثها
(The Lexicon of Al-Ma'fer Dialect and its Heritage)
Reflecting years of careful dialectal study in the central highlands Al-Ma`fer region that today includes Ta`izz and regions of the Red Sea Coast in Southwestern Arabia, Dr. Al-Hakimi’s three-volume lexicon offers an extraordinary inventory of approximately four thousand five-hundred words and expressions. Scholars engaged in studies of social history, agriculture, architecture, urbanization, economics, religion, literature and daily ritual activities of all sorts will rejoice at having access to this work. Especially welcome are the author’s annotations comparing vernacular words to usages recorded in classical Arabic sources and Semitic grammars documented elsewhere.
2022 Award
Ṣālih Aḥmad Ṣāliḥ al-Faqīh
al-‘Imāra al-madaniyya al-‘Uthmāniyya fī madīnat Ṣan‘ā' (Ottoman Civil Architecture in the City of Ṣan‘ā')
This is a study of Ottoman architecture in Ṣan‘ā' which has received limited attention. The first Ottoman occupation of Yemen was between 945/1538-1045/1635 and the second between 1265/1849-1337/1918. This work documents health facilities, hot baths, the military hospital, administrative, educational, public services, market buildings, wells and other architectural features. It also contains numerous diagrams and photographs.
2022 Award
Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Raḥīm Jāzim, editor
Ṣifat bilād al-Yaman wa-Makka wa-ba‘ḍ al-Hijāz
(Description of Yemen, Mecca and Parts of the Hejaz)
This is a new Arabic edition of a major early 13th century travel book on Yemen and Mecca. by Ibn al-Mujāwir. The original Arabic edition was edited by Oscar Löfgren in 1954 and published in Leiden with a number of reprints later on. In 2008 Rex Smith translated the Löfgren edition for the Hakluyt Society.
This new annotated edition was researched by the editor with visits to several of the places mentioned by the author.
2021 Award
Ḥusayn Abū Bakr al-‘Aydarūs
al-Rusūm al-ādamiyya al-ṣakhriyya fī al-Yaman al-qadīm
(Human Rock Art Images in Ancient Yemen)
For a description of the text and the AIYS reviewers' comments,
click here.
