Rasulid diplomatic letters
Historian Frédéric Bauden, Professor of Arabic Language and Islamic Studies at Liège University and a noted scholar of the Mamluk author...
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Kitāb al-Tījān Manuscripts
On his Facebook site, Mohammed Atboush has uploaded research on the manuscript copies of the Yemeni history Kitāb al-Tījān fī mulūk...
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Yemeni Manuscripts in Princeton
Princeton University has digitized many of its manuscripts and they are available online. The Garrett collection has 2,469 Arabic...
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Yemenite Jews in Ottoman Yemen
The historian Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman has just published a study on Jews in Ottoman Yemen in an edited volume. Below is the first page....
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Weights and Measures in Rasulid Yemen
Daniel Martin Varisco, former AIYS President, presented a paper entitled "Not Your Average Raṭl: Weights and Measures in Rasulid Yemen"...
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Source for Books on Zaydi Islam
The website alzaidiya has a major collection of books on the Zaydis, Yemen in general, tribes and a variety of texts on Islam and the...
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Kawkaban and Imam Sharaf al-Din
This article is currently available for open access at the website.
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Ancient Qataban
A new article on the ancient South Arabian kingdom of Qataban has been published. It is available for download here.
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Flagg Miller's Ethnography in Arabic
AIYS President Flagg Miller published his ethnography, The Moral Resonance of Arab Media: Audiocassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen, in...
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Biographies of Yemeni Historians
The website Wefaq is a major source for the history of Yemen. Of special value are the biographies posted of numerous historians of...
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Biography of Abdulaziz Saqqaf
Dear Friends of Yemen Times, In addition to launching Yemen Times's Archives online (www.yementimes.com), a book recounting the life...
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Philby in the Ḥaḍramawt
The British traveler H. St. J. Philby is best known for his writings on Saudi Arabia, but he also visited the Hadramawt in the late...
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Major Resource for Yemeni History
The site Wefaq.net is a major source for the history of Yemen throughout the ages to the present. There are online studies and...
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Jimmy Carter and Yemen
Here is an excerpt from a forthcoming book by Bruce Riedel. It describes the role that Carter played in the 1979 incursion of the PDRY...
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Food Security in Yemen and the Ukraine War
Congratulations to Mohammad Al-Saidi of Qatar University for his article on the impact of the war in Ukraine on food security in the...
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Azal, Yemeni Antiquity Journal
The 2003 issue of Azal, the antiquities journal published by Yemen's General Organization of Antiquites and Museums, has just been...
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