Studies In The Medieval History Of The Yemen And South Arabia
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| Author | : Gerald Rex Smith |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
This volume brings together a set of widely scattered articles spanning some thirty years of research on early and medieval Yemen and South Arabia. They cover the political and military history of the area, from the beginning of Islam to the Ottoman conquest in 1517, with the establishment of the Zaydis and then the Ayyubids as key events. Particular attention is given to the 13th century, and questions of trade and historical geography. The work of the traveller Ibn al-Mujawir, the subject of a series of studies, also provides much information on the society and beliefs of the period, including magic and sexual practices.
| Author | : Gerald Rex Smith |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
This volume brings together a set of widely scattered articles spanning some thirty years of research on early and medieval Yemen and South Arabia. They cover the political and military history of the area, from the beginning of Islam to the Ottoman conquest in 1517, with the establishment of the Zaydis and then the Ayyubids as key events. Particular attention is given to the 13th century, and questions of trade and historical geography. The work of the traveller Ibn al-Mujawir, the subject of a series of studies, also provides much information on the society and beliefs of the period, including magic and sexual practices.
| Author | : George Hatke |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2019-04-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1527533700 |
South Arabia, an area encompassing all of today’s Yemen and neighboring regions in Saudi Arabia and Oman, is one of the least-known parts of the Near East. However, it is primarily due to its remoteness, coupled with the difficulty of access, that South Arabia remains under-researched, for this region was, in fact, very important during pre-Islamic times. By virtue of its location at the crossroads of caravan and maritime routes, pre-Islamic South Arabia linked the Near East with Africa and the Mediterranean with India. The region is also unique in that it has a written history extending as far back as the early first millennium BCE—a far longer history, indeed, than any other part of the Arabian Peninsula. The papers collected in this volume make a number of important contributions to the study of the history and languages of ancient South Arabia, as well as the history of the modern study of South Arabia’s past, which will be of interest to scholars and laypeople alike.
| Author | : Jens Hanssen |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 672 |
| Release | : 2020-11-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0191652792 |
The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History critically examines the defining processes and structures of historical developments in North Africa and the Middle East over the past two centuries. The Handbook pays particular attention to countries that have leapt out of the political shadows of dominant and better-studied neighbours in the course of the unfolding uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. These dramatic and interconnected developments have exposed the dearth of informative analysis available in surveys and textbooks, particularly on Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria.
| Author | : Ingrid Hehmeyer |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 319 |
| Release | : 2018-12-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004387714 |
In A History of Water Engineering and Management in Yemen, Ingrid Hehmeyer describes the three-way relationship between water, land, and humans from ancient to medieval and premodern times. As illustrated in case studies from four sites, individual ecosystems necessitated different engineering and management approaches in order to make good use of the scarce water resources for both irrigated agriculture and domestic consumption. Material remains and written sources provide the evidence for a comprehensive examination of continuity and change; technical and managerial struggles, failures, and successes; the question of technology transfer; the impact of the religion of Islam on water use and allocation; and people’s reactions in times of severe crisis.
| Author | : J. R. Smart |
| Publisher | : University of Exeter Press |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780859895521 |
New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion. It provides authoritative information intended to appeal to both the specialist and general reader. Both the traditional and the modern aspects of Arabia are covered, excluding contemporary controversial politics.
| Author | : Donald R. Hill |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2020-10-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000226085 |
These studies represent the major contributions to the history of Islamic technology during the second half of the 20th century beside Donald Hill’s separate publications on the mechanical devices of Pseudo-Apollonios, the Banu Musa and al-Jazari. A gifted linguist who was trained as a historian of Islamic civilisation, and also a professional engineer, Hill achieved his goal of setting his subject on a solid basis. The papers reprinted here include his early studies of the trebuchet and the camel and horse, several overviews of different aspects of Islamic technology, articles on specific topics such as the Cairo Nilometer and al-Biruni’s geared luni-solar device, and the first notice of an extremely important Andalusian treatise on mechanical devices discovered in 1975.
| Author | : Eric Tagliacozzo |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 367 |
| Release | : 2013-03-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199989710 |
The pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, has been a yearly phenomenon of great importance in Muslim lands for well over one thousand years. Each year, millions of pilgrims from throughout the Dar al-Islam, or Islamic world, stretching from Morocco east to Indonesia, make the trip to Mecca as one of the five pillars of their faith. By the end of the nineteenth century, and the beginning of the twentieth, fully half of all pilgrims making the journey in any given year could come from Southeast Asia. The Longest Journey, spanning eleven modern nation-states and seven centuries, is the first book to offer a history of the Hajj from one of Islam's largest and most important regions.
| Author | : George Hatke |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 497 |
| Release | : 2021-02-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1527565335 |
South Arabia is one of the least known parts of the Near East. It is primarily due to its remoteness, coupled with the difficulty of access, that South Arabia remains so under-explored. In pre-Islamic times, however, it was well-connected to the rest of the world. Due to its location at the crossroads of caravan and maritime routes, pre-Islamic South Arabia linked the Near East with Africa and the Mediterranean with India. The region is unique in that it has a written history extending as far back as the early first millennium BCE—a far longer history than that of any other part of the Arabian Peninsula. The papers collected in this volume make a number of important contributions to the study of the history and languages of ancient South Arabia, as well as the history of South Arabian studies, and will be of interest to scholars and laypeople alike.
| Author | : Rob Carter |
| Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781905739011 |
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 2005.
