In 1936 a Syrian agricultural engineer named Aḥmad Waṣfī Zakariyā visited Yemen at the invitation of Imam Yaḥyā. He stayed in Yemen for...

On Tuesday, 27 February, Christian Sahner (Oxford University) will discuss his current book project on rebellion, conversion, and state...

The masterful study of the institution of waqf in Zaydi Yemen by Eirik Hovden is available to download in open access from Brill. Based...

One of the most important archaeologists of ancient South Arabia is Mohammed Maraqten. You can hear this lecture in Arabic on the Mahram...

The rich cultural heritage of Yemen has suffered from looting and destruction for many years, but especially during the recent crisis,...

On Saturday, January 27, there will be a special event at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. on Yemeni objects that will be...

Congratulations to Dr. Hussein Alaidarus for his book appearing at the Cairo International Book Fare. This book received the AIYS...

From the Facebook Page of Mohammed Jarhoom

Click here to download the manuscripts. From the Facebook site of Mohammed Atboush

The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam & Society announces a series of lectures on the heritage and history of Yemen...

This historic photograph is of a reconnaissance balloon used by the British against the Ottomans (1915-1918). From the Facebook Site Old...

The Austrian traveler Eduard Glaser visited Yemen during the second Ottoman period and wrote several articles in German. There is an AIYS...

مجلة أزال "حولية الآثار اليمنية " _العددان الثالث والرابع الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله وآله . عزيزي القارئ بين يديك عدد مزدوج...

AIYS Board member Dan Varisco has just published an article on agriculture in Yemen during the first millennium CE.

Congratulations to Lamya Khalidi, one of the co-authors of this recent article with information on environmental change in Arabia. Lamya...

The Ottoman governor of Yemen known as Hasan Pasha (d. 1607 CE) wrote a history of Yemen, which is available online in Latin translation...

لا يزال هناك وقت لتقديم مسودة كتاب للنظر في نشره في برنامج جائزة الكتاب AIYS. There is still time to submit a draft book for...

A page on Yemen from a manuscript of the 11th century CE geographer al-Bakrī. For a copy of the manuscript, click here. This important...

The back issues of the Yemeni antiquities journal Raydan, including the most recent issue, are now available online.

The Bibliotheca Arabica's Manuscript Data Lab publishes an online database of Arabic manuscripts, based in Leipzig. It has a number of...