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al-Bakīriyya Mosque over the years
Several photographs of the Bakīriyya Mosque in Ṣan‘ā' have been uploaded on the Facebook Site of Yūsuf Maḥyūb al-Ṭiyār. The Bakīriyya...
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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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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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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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Heritage Preservation of the Great Mosque
Monumenta Orientalia has created a webpage devoted to the endangered architectural heritage of Yemen, with details and photographs of 60...
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1960's Film on Yemen
In the early 1960s the National Geographic Society published a film on Yemen. Parts of this film are available, in the French version,...
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New Book on Historical Writing in Islamic Yemen
Congratulations to Dr. ‘Alī ‘Abd al-Karīm Barakāt of Ibb University for publication of his new book on historical writing in Yemen during...
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New Book on Sufism
Congratulations to AIYS Board Member Alexander Knysh for co-editing this important new handbook on Sufi Studies, available from Brill.
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Heritage Preservation Grants
For Information on this new round of grant opportunities from ALIPH, the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in...
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Yemeni Heritage on Facebook
There are several Facebook sites by Yemenis on the rich heritage of Yemen. Here is one by Mohammed Saleh Al Haj.
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A Yemeni Pilgrimage to Mecca in 1825
In 1241/1825 Ismā‘īl Jaghmān made the pilgrimage from Ṣan‘ā', documenting every step of the way and what he saw in Mecca. The title of a...
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Mosque in Khawlan
From the Facebook site of Old and Rare Photos of Yemen (صور قديمة ونادرة لليمن) which is an excellent source of old photographs on Yemen.
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Two Arabic Books on Yemen Online
The libraries of the American University of Beirut has a digital collection of books online. Two that may be of interest regarding Yemen,...
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New Study on Agriculture at Time of Muhammad
د/ عمر صالح سامل الفانوص بن رشيد أستاذ الحضارة والتاريخ الاسلامي الملساعد كلية اآلداب جامعة عدن ملكيات األاراضي الزراعية في العهد...
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Online Yemen Sources at the Library of Congress
The Library of Congress has placed a number of its holdings regarding Yemen online. The types of materials now online from their...
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