Online Resources for Yemeni Studies
The infinitely expanding knowledge and equally expanding internet offers many opportunities to create and share resources on Yemen. The following are a few sources to highlight research for anyone interested in Yemen.
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Featured Sites
In the Presence of Sanctity: The Sacred Geography of Yemen
Supported by a generous grant of the Templeton Religion Trust awarded via the Program in the Study of Mysticism (PRISM) at the Tampere University in Finland and the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (ORSP) at the University of Michigan, the project In the Presence of Sanctity: The Sacred Geography of Yemen provides visitors with rich textual and visual materials for understanding and studying Yemen’s people, religion(s) and culture. The project director Alexander Knysh, a longtime AIYS member and AIYS Board Member, and his assistants Evyn Kropf and Aishah Al-Mohamedi invite visitors to embark on an intellectually and culturally enriching journey through the intricate landscape of Yemen’s past and present.
The Zaydi literary tradition is among the richest and most variegated traditions within Islamic civilization and at the same time one of the least studied. The literary production by Zaydi scholars stretched over more than one thousand years covering a wide spectrum of traditional disciplines, such as law and legal theory, exegesis, Qur'anic sciences and traditions, geography and encyclopedias, medicine and mathematics, history and biography, grammar and philology, theology and literature (prose as well as poetry).