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61. La prehistoire du Yemen: Diffusions et diversites locales, a travers l'etude d'industries lithiques du Hadramawt (bar s) (French Edition) by Remy Crassard | |
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(2008-12-31)
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62. Without Glory in Arabia: The British Retreat from Aden (International Library of Colonial History) by Peter Hinchcliffe, John T. Ducker, Maria Holt | |
Hardcover: 288
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(2006-10-31)
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An Apprpriate Desceiption of Labour Government in the Mid-Sixties |
63. The Jewish Kingdom of Himyar (Yemen): Its Rise and Fall.: An article from: Midstream by Joseph Adler | |
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(2000-05-01)
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64. YEMEN - The North-South Merger & Challenges.(Yemeni Unification, 1990): An article from: APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula by Gale Reference Team | |
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(2006-06-26)
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65. YEMEN - Economic Reform.(Brief Article): An article from: APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula | |
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(2000-07-17)
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66. Yemen...in Pictures (Visual Geography. Second Series) by Yemen, Geography Department | |
Hardcover: 64
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(1993-09)
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67. The Yemen Arab Republic: The Politics of Development, 1967-1986 by Robert D. Burrowes | |
Hardcover: 173
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(1987-07)
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68. Records of Yemen 1798-1960 16 Volume Set | |
Hardcover: 10000
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(1993-09-30)
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69. The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (Marxist regimes) by Tareq Y. Ismael, Jacqueline S. Ismael | |
Paperback: 176
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(1986-08-26)
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70. Chaos in Yemen: Societal Collapse and the New Authoritarianism (Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies) by Isa Blumi | |
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(2010-08-27)
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71. YEMEN: An entry from Gale's <i>Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies</i> by Reem Nuseibeh | |
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(2002)
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72. Old and modern construction materials in Yemen: the effect in building construction in Sana'a.: An article from: Journal of Social Sciences by Issa A. M. Al_Kahtani, Suhaib Y.K. Al-Darzi | |
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(2007-07-01)
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73. YEMEN: An entry from Gale's <i>World Education Encyclopedia</i> by Matthew Gray | |
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(2001)
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74. YEMEN: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's <i>Countries and Their Cultures</i> by MIKHAIL RODIONOV | |
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(2001)
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75. Yemen: An entry from Gale's <i>Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices</i> by Gabriele vom Bruck | |
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(2006)
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76. Yemen: The Tortuous Quest for Unity, 1990-94 (Chatham House Papers) by Joseph Kostiner | |
Paperback: 144
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(1996-11)
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77. The Yemen;: Imams, rulers, & revolutions by William Harold Ingrams | |
Hardcover: 164
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(1964)
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78. Yemen by Tim Mackintosh-Smith | |
Hardcover: 280
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(2000-03-20)
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Travels in Dictionary Land, if by another name
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Entertaining travelogue about Yemen
decent book at best
excellent travel book on a truly unknown part of Arabia Mackintosh-Smith provides an excellent primer of Yemni history. Yemen we find out once hosted powerful pre-Islamic civilizations, South Arabian states like Saba, Ma'in (whose massive and expertly produced stone works later overawed the Romans), Qaban, and Hadramawt, wealthy merchant kingdoms that grew rich on their tight control of aromatic gums - particularly frankincense and myrrh as well as cinnamon brought from India - in great demand among the Pharaonic Egyptians for medicine and for the process of mummification, by the Assyrians, by the Greeks, the Romans, the ancient kingdoms growing rich on spices rather than oil. Many of the lands were cultivated thanks to the Marib Dam - a massive structure that finally collapsed in the sixth century, that according to legend was destroyed by a rat with iron teeth - or to very impressive irrigation works, via stone tunnels cut into the living rocks of the mountains, some tunnels 150 yards long and big enough to drive a car through and still used to supply water to highland villages over 2000 years after they were built.With the collapse of this civilization - linked by many to the collapse of the Marib Dam - there was a Yemeni diaspora of sorts, as many Yemenis were in the vanguard of the early conquering armies of Islam, spreading throughout the Arab world as far as East Africa, Ethiopia, Iraq, Syria, Tunisia, and even Spain. Later on the Rasulid sultans ruled southern Yemen between the 13th and 15th centuries, making their capital of Ta'izz a wealthy and cosmopolitan capital, its rulers patrons of many of the sciences, producing astrolabes and magnetic compasses while the rest of the Islamic world was in ruins thanks to the Mongols.Modern Yemeni history is also well covered though I found it at times confusing. The author visited many areas of Yemen. He hiked down canyons and dry wadi (seasonally dry river beds), warned by the locals of the tahish, a cow-sized, hyena like Yemeni bogeyman, though more likely in danger of the sayl, a roaring chest-high wall of water that can suddenly fill canyons thanks to distant highland rains. He viewed many mountain villages and homes perched precariously over such wadi, its citizens living on centuries-old terraces carved into the mountain, designed to catch and slow the descent of every bit of precious water that rains upon the mountains.He sampled a great variety of Yemeni foods, such as saltah (stew based on vegetables and broth topped by hulbah,fenugreek flour whisked to a froth with water), rawbah (soured milk from which the fat has been removed to make butter, popular on the island of Suqutra), qishr (a drink made from the husks of coffee beans, the bean of which have long been a major Yemeni export), and baghiyyah honey, said to the finest in the world and produced only in Yemen by bees pasturing only on ilb trees. He encountered a few of the Jews of Yemen, only a few thousand of which are left, identified by their corkscrew curl side locks. He viewed a bara', an Islamic tribal festival still practiced in the mountains, looking like a dance but more akin to a medieval tournament, a place to display skill with weapons and with heavy connotations of honor and tribal solidarity. He wrote of the qabili - the mountain tribesmen - who are regarded by city dwellers as yokels but also regarded with pride as part of their ancestry, regarding them as honorable people, ones practicing great hospitality to strangers, with many symbolically becoming a tribesmen by adoption of the asib, the tribesman's upright dagger. He visited those who were sayyid, male descendents of the Prophet, often whom devote their lives to Qur'anic knowledge, forming a class that has long had a critical role in Yemeni politics and religion. He visited Aden, one of the greatest ports in the world, its "craggy profile" formed by volcanic activity, a weird city thanks to local topography, not "one city but a series of settlements separated by outriders of the central peak, Jabal Shamsan," many of those settlements quite distinct in character, a city once contested by the Ottomans, the French, and held by the British for the better part of two centuries. He visited two sub-cultures within Yemen that don't always Arabic; the Mahris, located east of Hud along al-Masilah, racially distinct and following the very un-Arabic matrilineal descent system, and the native peoples of Suqutra, who until relatively recently many did not speak Arabic at all but rather Suqutri. Indeed the Island of Suqutra, once called the Island of Dragon's Blood thanks to one of its most famous exports, a blood red resin from the dragon's blood tree (_Dracaena cinnabari_, actually a member of the Lily family), is the subject of the last chapter, an island 260 miles from the Yemeni mainland, closer to Somalia than to Yemen, a country that once practiced very un-Islamic adult public circumcisions and witch trails into the late 1960s. I really enjoyed this book, which boasted some interesting sketch book type illustrations, a glossary, and a good bibliography. ... Read more |
79. The Pearl-Strings (Volume 2); A History of the Resúliyy Dynasty of Yemen by ali Ibn Al-asan Khazraji | |
Paperback: 234
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(2010-10-14)
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80. The Pearl-Strings; A History of the Resúliyy Dynasty of Yemen by ali Ibn Al-asan Khazraji | |
Paperback: 158
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(2010-03-11)
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