The Abdulaziz al-Maqaleh Book Award for Yemeni Heritage:
Book Award Recipients
جائزة عبد العزيز المقالح لطباعة الكتاب في التراث والثقافة اليمنية
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Most Recent Book Award Recipient:
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.
Past Awardees:
2022 Awardees
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.
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 Awardee
Ḥusayn Abū Bakr al-‘Aydarūs
al-Rusūm al-ādamiyya al-ṣakhriyya fī al-Yaman al-qadīm
(Human Rock Art Images in Ancient Yemen)
The book is based on the author's Ph.D. dissertation in the Department of Archaeology at Ṣan‘ā' University. The book focuses on the rock art found in ancient Yemen and how to interpret these drawings based on ancient Yemeni religious beliefs and mythology.
2020 Award
Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Raḥīm Jāzim
al-Ḥaṣād al-Mubakkir
(Early Gleanings)
Index to Vol. 1
Index to Vol. 2
2019 Award
Aḥmad al-Gabalī
Qāmūs al-‘urf al-qabalī fī al-Yaman
(Tribal Customary Law in Yemen)
To see the Table of Contents, click here.
Aḥmad al-Gabalī and Salwa Dammāj
in the Ṣan‘ā' office
Dr Salwa Dammaj, Dr Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh, Ahmed al-Gabali, Abdulbari Taher, left to right.
Index to Vol. 3
