Herbal medicine in Yemen : traditional knowledge and practice, and their value for today's world /
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Traditional medical lore along with its practitioners - druggists and healers - survives in Yemen today. Owing to the country's rich biodiversity, the main body of the medicines is plant-based. This book features fourteen scholars from Europe, North America and the Middle East (three of them from Yemen) who represent both humanities and natural sciences. They address the topic of herbal medicines and their multifaceted applications within traditional Yemeni society across boundaries of disciplines, such as Islamic studies, history, social anthropology, pharmacy and agriculture. The approaches are based on textual analysis, empirical research and laboratory experiment. Both historical and contemporary issues are covered. Contributors include: Mohammed Al-Duais, Jacques Fleurentin, Amin Al-Hakimi, Ingrid Hehmeyer, Gottfried Jetschke, Efraim Lev, Ulrike Lindequist, Miranda Morris, Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper, Frédéric Pelat, Mikhail Rodionov, Petra Schmidl, Daniel Martin Varisco and Anhar Ya'ni.
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1 online resource (xv, 249 pages) : illustrations, maps. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004232075 :
0929-2403 ; :
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The maritime traditions of the fishermen of Socotra, Yemen /
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This research analyses the Socotri maritime traditions and addressing the question as to how social, environmental and technological influences have shaped the maritime traditions of the fishermen of Socotra - 205 nautical miles south of Yemen.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784914837 (ebook) :
The maritime traditions of the fishermen of Socotra, Yemen /
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This research analyses the Socotri maritime traditions and addressing the question as to how social, environmental and technological influences have shaped the maritime traditions of the fishermen of Socotra - 205 nautical miles south of Yemen.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784914837 (ebook) :
Arabia Felix : an exploration of the archaeological history of Yemen /
: L'original en italien est publié en 1996 et sa première traduction en anglais date de 2002. : xx, 373 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9781906768041 (hbk.)
Mathematical astronomy in medieval Yemen : a biobibliographical survey /
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"Published under the auspices of the American Research Center in Egypt, Inc." :
ix, 98 pages, 10 pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles ; 28 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-80) and indexes. :
0890030987
9780890030981
0890030995
9780890030998
Yemen : 3000 years of art and civilisation in Arabia Felix /
: "This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition ... at the Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde München, 29 April 1987 to 5 April 1988"--Pages 3. : 483 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm : Includes bibliographical references. : wafaa.lib.
In the high Yemen /
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Account of the author's experiences with the British Museum (Natural History) Expedition to South-west Arabia, 1937-1938.
Reprint of the 1942 ed. published by J. Murray, London. :
xix, 260 pages, [33] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and indexs. :
wafaa.lib.
The Yemeni manuscript tradition /
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The Yemeni Manuscript Tradition contributes to the study of the manuscript codex and its role in scholastic culture in Yemen. Ranging in period from Islam's first century to the modern period, all the articles in this volume emerge from the close scrutiny of the manuscripts of Yemen. As a group, these studies demonstrate the range and richness of scholarly methods closely tied to the material text, and the importance of cross-pollination in the fields of codicology, textual criticism, and social and intellectual history. Contributors are: Hassan Ansari, Menashe Anzi, Asma Hilali, Kerstin Hünefeld, Wilferd Madelung, Arianna D'Ottone, Christoph Rauch, Anne Regourd, Sabine Schmidtke, Gregor Schwarb and Jan Thiele.
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1 online resource (xi, 305 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004289765 :
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Empire, Islam, and politics of difference : Ottoman rule in Yemen, 1849-1919 /
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Historians of the Middle East in the long nineteenth century have often considered empire-building the preserve of European powers. This book revises this picture by exploring how the Ottomans re-conquered and ruled large parts of present-day Yemen between 1849 and the end of World War I, after more than two centuries of independence under local dynasties. Drawing on a wide range of sources and on recent scholarship on empire and colonialism Empire, Islam, and Politics of Difference shows how the concepts and practices of Ottoman imperial rule were shaped through the encounters between Ottoman officials, their European rivals, and local communities. The result is a fresh look at the nature of governance in the late Ottoman Empire more generally.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004212084 :
1380-6076 ; :
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Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Soqotra Island : Present and Future /
: At head of title : GEF : Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Biodiversity of Soqotra Archipelago. : volume <1> : illustrations ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9080434116 : Omnia
Sharma : un entrepôt de commerce médiéval sur La Côte du Hadramawt : (Yémen, ca 980-1180) /
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Cited by al-Muqaddasi in c.985 and then by al-Idrisi in c.1150, the medieval port of Sharma was discovered in 1996 at the extremity of the Ra's Sharma, 50km east of al-Shihr on the Hadramawt coast of Yemen; it was excavated in 2001-2005. This unique site was actually a transit entrepôt, a cluster of warehouses probably founded by Iranian merchants and entirely devoted to the maritime trade. It knew a rather short period of activity, between around 980 and the second half of the 12th century, which may be acknowledged as the Sharma horizon. Excavations proved that this settlement experienced six occupation phases, which are closely related to the political and economic developments in the region at that time.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781784911959 (PDF ebook) :
Sharma : un entrepôt de commerce médiéval sur La Côte du Hadramawt : (Yémen, ca 980-1180) /
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Cited by al-Muqaddasi in c.985 and then by al-Idrisi in c.1150, the medieval port of Sharma was discovered in 1996 at the extremity of the Ra's Sharma, 50km east of al-Shihr on the Hadramawt coast of Yemen; it was excavated in 2001-2005. This unique site was actually a transit entrepôt, a cluster of warehouses probably founded by Iranian merchants and entirely devoted to the maritime trade. It knew a rather short period of activity, between around 980 and the second half of the 12th century, which may be acknowledged as the Sharma horizon. Excavations proved that this settlement experienced six occupation phases, which are closely related to the political and economic developments in the region at that time.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781784911959 (PDF ebook) :
Traditional society in transition : the Yemeni Jewish experience /
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In Traditional Society in Transition: The Yemeni Jewish Experience Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman offers an account of the unique circumstances of Yemeni Jewish existence in the wake of major changes since the second half of the nineteenth century. It follows this community's transition from a traditional patriarchal society to a group adjusting to the challenges of a modern society. Unlike the perception of the Yemeni Jews as receptive to modernity only following immigration to Palestine and Israel, Eraqi Klorman convincingly shows that some modern ideas played a role in their lives while in Yemen. Once in Palestine, they appear here as adjusting to the new conditions by striving to participate in the Zionist enterprise, consenting to secular education, transforming family practices and the status of women. "The book is an important contribution to the study of Yemeni Jews in Yemen and abroad as well as for Jewish-Muslim relations, relations between Yemeni Jews and other Jews, and gender studies...Many of these issues have not been previously studied, and the use of private archives and interviews greatly increases the value of this study.\' -Rachel Simon, Princeton University. Princeton, NJ, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews, November/December 2014.
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1 online resource (pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004272910 :
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A History of Water Engineering and Management in Yemen : Material Remains and Textual Foundations /
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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.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004387713 :
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