Bibliography

As this is not an academic book, I have not tried to give a complete list of sources. However, the following list is reasonably full. The intention is threefold: to include titles mentioned in the text, to provide guidelines for further reading, and to list sources which may have escaped the attention of specialists. For the benefit of the Arabists, I have rendered Arabic names and titles in the most commonly accepted form of transliteration, that used in Arabian Studies. The arrangement by section is to some extent arbitrary; for example, the Bents’ book Southern Arabia might as well appear under ‘Suqurā’ as ‘aramawt’.

What is and what is not compulsory reading is, of course, a matter of taste. While anything by al-Hamdānī is of prime importance for the earlier period, readers of Arabic might start with al-Qāī ‘Abdullāh al-Shamāī’s Al-yaman, a clear and concise guide to Yemeni history up to the 1960s; the gazetteers of al-ajarī and al-Maqafī are both invaluable as works of reference; and the annals of al-Washalī are a fascinating personal record written in an age of change. In English, the books on aramawt by Freya Stark and the Ingramses are – like many of the South Arabian titles published by John Murray – classics; Doreen and Leila Ingrams’s Records of Yemen, a vast collection of documents on the country, includes some early and hard-to-find accounts by outsiders but has the disadvantage of being neither portable nor affordable. Paul Dresch’s Tribes, History and Government is scholarly, wide-ranging and well-written; Francine Stone’s Tihāmah book is both informative and beautiful. Personally, should I ever find myself marooned on Suqurā during the season of storms, there are three books I would hope to have with me: Ibn al-Mujāwir’s Tārīkh al-mustabir, a work of sometimes dubious reliability but packed with sūq gossip; Serjeant and Lewcock’s wonderful book on anā’; and, of course, Hava’s Dictionary.

General Background

‘Abdullāh b. ‘Abd al-Wahhāb al-Mujāhid al-Shamāī, al-Qāī, Al-yaman: al-insān wa ’l-haārah, Beirut, 1406/1985

Amad Jābir ‘Afīf et al. (eds.), Al-mawsū ‘ah al-yamaniyyah, an‘ā’, 1412/1992

Bidwell, R.L., The Two Yemens, Harlow, 1983

Bradley, Chris, Discovery Guide to Yemen, London, 1995

Daum, Werner (ed.), Yemen: 3000 Years of Art and Civilisation in Arabia Felix, Innsbruck–Frankfurt/Main [c. 1988]

Dresch, Paul, Tribes, Government and History in Yemen, Oxford, 1989

al-ajarī see Muammad b. Amad

al-Hamdānī see al-asan

al-asan b. Amad al-Hamdānī, ifat jazīrat al- ‘arab, ed. Muammad b. ‘Alī al-Akwa‘, an‘ā’, 1403/1983

Hava, Revd J.G., Al-farā’id al-durriyyah: Arabic-English Dictionary, Beirut, 1915

Ibn al-Mujāwir see Yūsuf

Ibrāhīm Amad al-Maqafī, Mu ‘jam al-buldān wa ’l-qabā’il al-yamaniyyah, an‘ā’, 1988

Ingrams, Doreen and Leila (eds.), Records of Yemen, 16 vols., Neuchâtel, 1993

Ingrams, Harold, The Yemen: Imams, Rulers and Revolutions, London, 1963

Muammad b. ‘Abd al-Malik al-Marwanī, Al-thanā’ al-asan ‘alā ahl al-yaman, Beirut, 1411/1990

Muammad b. Amad al-ajarī, al-Qāī, Majmū‘ buldān al-yaman wa qabā’ilihā, 2 vols., ed. Ismā‘īl b. ‘Alī al-Akwa‘, an‘ā’, 1404/1984

Nashwān b. Sa‘īd al-imyarī, Muntakhabāt fī akhbār al-yaman min kitāb shams al-‘ulūm, ed. ‘Aīm al-Dīn Amad, Leiden, 1916, reprinted an‘ā’, 1401/1981

Niebuhr, Carsten, Travels through Arabia, trans. and abr. R. Heron, Edinburgh, 1792

Serjeant, R.B., and Bidwell, R.L. (eds.), Arabian Studies, Cambridge–London, 197485

al-Shamāī see ‘Abdullāh b. ‘Abd al-Wahhāb

Smith, G. Rex, The Yemens (World Bibliographical Series), Oxford, 1984

Wilson, Robert T.O, Gazetteer of Historical North-West Yemen, Hildesheim, 1989

Yāqūt b. ‘Abdullāh al-amawī, Al-buldān al-yamāniyyah ind yāqūt al-amawī, ed. al-Qāī Ismā‘īl b. ‘Alī al-Akwa‘, Beirut-an‘ā’, 1408/1988

[Yemeni Centre for Research and Studies], Dirāsāt yamaniyyah, an‘ā’, 1978

Yūsuf b. Ya‘qūb Ibn al-Mujāwir, ifat bilād al-yaman (tārīkh al-mustabir), ed. O. Löfgren, Leiden, 19514, reprinted Beirut, 1407/1986

Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Yemen

‘Abdullāh b. ‘Abd al-Wahhāb al-Mujāhid al-Shamāī, al-Qāī, Al-hijrāt al-yamaniyyah, Cairo-an‘ā’, 1396/1976

Anon., The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, trans, and ed. G.W.B. Huntingford, London, 1980

Beeston, A.F.L., A Descriptive Grammar of Epigraphic South Arabian, London, 1962

——et al. (eds.), Sabaic Dictionary, Beirut-Louvain-la-Neuve, 1982

Bidwell, R.L., and Smith, G. Rex (eds.), Arabian and Islamic Studies (festschrift for R.B. Serjeant), London, 1982

Doe, Brian, Southern Arabia, London, 1971

al-asan b. Amad al-Hamdānī, Kitāb al-iklīl, VIII, ed. Nabīh Amīn Fāris, Princeton, 1940, reprinted Beirut–an‘ā’, n.d.

usayn Amad al-Sayāghī, al-Qāī, Ma ‘ālim al-āthār al-yamaniyyah, an‘ā’, 1980

Ismā‘īl b. ‘Alī al-Akwa‘, al-Qāī, Barāqish fi kutub al-mu’arrikhīn (unpublished typescript), an‘ā’, 1407/1986

Muammad ‘Abd al-Qādir Bā Faqīh, Fi ’l-‘arabiyyah al-saīdah, an‘ā’, 1408/1987

Muammad b. ‘Alī al-Akwa‘, Al-yaman al-kharā’ mahd al-laārah, an‘ā’, 1402/1982

Muahhar ‘Alī al-Iryānī, Nuqūsh musnadiyyah, an‘ā’, 1990

Nashwān b. Sa‘īd al-imyarī, Mulūk imyar wa aqyāl al-yaman, ed. Ismā‘īl b. Amad al-Jirāfī and ‘Alī b. Ismā‘īl al-Mu’ayyad, Beirut, 1978

Pirenne, J., ‘Les Sud-Arabes à travers leur Art’ (and other articles), Les Dossiers de l’Archéologie, no. 35, Dijon, March–April 1979

Pyotrovsky, M., Malamah ‘an al-malik al-imyarī asad al-kāmil, trans. Shāhir Jamāl Āghā, an‘ā’, 1404/1984

——Al-yaman qabl al-islām, trans. Muammad al-Shu‘aybī, Beirut, 1987

Robin, Christian, ‘Le Haut Plateau’ (and other articles), Les Dossiers de l’Archéologie, no. 35, Dijon, March–April 1979

——Les Hautes-Terres du Nord-Yémen avant l’Islam, 2 vols., Istanbul, 1982,

——’Les plantes aromatiques que brûlaient les Sabéens’, Saba, no. 1, n.p., 1994

Serjeant, R.B., South Arabian Hunt, London, 1976

Wahb b. Munabbih al-Yamānī, Kitāb al-tījān fī mulūk imyar, Hyderabad, 1347/1928, reprinted an‘ā’, 1979

Yūsuf Muammad ‘Abdullāh, Awrāq fī tārīkh al-yaman wa āthārihi, Beirut, 1411/1990

Later Yemen

Amad b. ‘Alwān, al-Shaykh, Al-futū, ed. ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Sulān āhir al-Manūb, an‘ā’, 1412/1992

‘Alī b. al-usayn b. ‘Alī al-Mas‘ūdī, Murūj al-dhahab wa ma‘ādin al-jawhar, 4 vols., ed. Muammad Muyī al-Dīn ‘Abd al-amīd, Beirut, n.d.

‘Alī b. Muammad b. ‘Ubaydullāh al-‘Abbāsī al-‘Alawī, Sīrat al-hādī ila ’l-aqq yayā ibn al-usayn, ed. Suhayl Zakkār, Beirut, 1401/1981

Anon., Tārīkh al-dawlah al-rasūliyyah fi ’l-yaman, ed. ‘Abdullāh Muammad al-ibshī, Damascus, 1405/1984

abshūsh see ayīm

Harris, Walter, A Journey through the Yemen, Edinburgh, 1893, reprinted London, 1985

ayīm b. Yayā b. Sālim al-Futayī abshūsh, ‘Ru’ya ’l-yaman’, Ru’yat al-yaman bayn abshūsh wa halévy, ed. Sāmiyah Na‘īm Sanbar, an‘ā’, 1412/1992; the French translation by Samia Naïm-Sanbar [Sāmiyah Na‘īm Sanbar], Yémen, Arles, 1995

usayn b. ‘Abdullāh al-‘Amrī, The Yemen in the 18th and 19th Centuries: A Political and Intellectual History, London, 1985

Muammad b. Amad al-Nahrawālī al-Makkī, Qub al-Dīn, Al-barq al-yamānī fi ’l-fat al-‘uthmānī, ed. amad al-Jāsir, Beirut, 1407/1986

Muammad b. Muammad Zabārah, Nashr al- ‘arf, an‘ā’-Beirut, n.d. (vol. I), 1405/1985 (vols. II and III)

al-Muqaddasī see Shams al-Dīn

Playfair, R.L., History of Arabia Felix, Bombay, 1859, reprinted St Leonards–Amsterdam, 1970

Pridham, B.R. (ed.), Contemporary Yemen: Politics and Historical Background, Beckenham, 1984

Salwā Sa‘d Sulaymān al-Ghālibī, Al-imām al-mutawakkil ‘ala ’llāh ismā‘īl ibn al-qāsim, n.p., 1411/1991

Shams al-Dīn al-Muqaddasī/al-Maqdisī, Asan al-taqāsīm fī ma ‘rifat al-aqālīm, ed. M.J. de Goeje, Leiden, 1967

Varthema, Ludovico di, Travels, ed. G.P. Badger, London, 1863

Yayā b. al-usayn b. al-Qāsim, Ghāyat al-amānī fī akhbār al-qur al-yamānī, ed. Sa‘īd ‘Abd al-Fattā ‘Āshūr, Cairo, 1968

The Twentieth Century

‘Abdullāh al-Sallāl el al., Thawrat al-yaman al-dustūriyyah, an‘ā’–Beirut, 1405/1985

‘Abd al-Wāsi‘ b. Yayā al-Wāsi‘ī al-Yamānī, al-Shaykh, Tārīkh al-yaman (farjat al-humūm wa ’l-azan fī awādith wa tārīkh al-yaman), an‘ā’, 19901

Amad ‘Abd al-Ramān al-Mu‘allamī, Kitābah ‘alā ar al-wadah al-yamaniyyah [an‘ā’, 1994]

Amad Shabrīn al-Qarda‘ī and Muqbil Amad al-‘Umarī/al-‘Amrī, Al-shahīd al-shaykh ‘alī nāir al-qarda‘ī, an‘ā’, 1993

Amad Wafī Zakariyyā, Rilatī ila ’l-yaman, Damascus, 1406/1986

Ameen Rihani [Amīn al-Rayānī], Arabian Peak and Desert, London, 1930

Fayein, Claudie, A French Doctor in the Yemen, London, 1957

Holden, David, Farewell to Arabia, London, 1966

usayn b. Amad al-‘Arashī, al-Qāī, Bulūgh al-marām fī shar misk al-khitām, ed. and continued by Fr. Anastase-Marie al-Kirmilī, Cairo, 1358/1939, reprinted Beirut, n.d.

Ismā‘īl b. Muammad al-Washalī al-Tihāmī al-asanī, (Dhayl) nashr al-thanā’ al-asan, ed. Muammad b. Muammad al-Shu‘aybī, an‘ā’, 1402/1982

Luce, Margaret, From Aden to the Gulf, Salisbury, 1987

Muammad b. ‘Alī al-Akwa‘ al-uwālī, afha min tārīkh al-yaman wa qiat ayātī, Damascus, n.d. (pt. I), [Aden], n.d. (pt. II), n.p., 1414/1993 (pt. III)

Muammad asan, Qalb al-yaman, Baghdad, 1948

Nazīh Mu’ayyad al-‘Am, Rilah fi ’l-‘arabiyyah al-sa‘īdah, Beirut, 1407/1986

Scott, Hugh, In the High Yemen, London, 1942

Smiley, David, Arabian Assignment, London, 1975

al-Washalī see Ismā‘īl

Yayā al-Sudumī, Suqū al-mu’ āmarah, [an‘ā’], 19945

an ‘ā’

‘Abd al-Ramān Yayā al-addād, an‘ā’ al-qadīmah, an‘ā’, 1992

‘Abd al-Wāsi‘ b. Yayā al-Wāsi‘ī, al-Shaykh, Al-badr al-muzīl li ’l-azan fī fal al-yaman wa maāsin an‘ā’dhāt al-minan, Cairo, 1345/1927

Amad b. ‘Abdullāh al-Rāzī, Tārīkh madīnat an‘ā’, ed. usayn b. ‘Abdullah al-‘Amrī and ‘Abd al-Jabbār Zakkār, Damascus, 1394/1974

‘AIī b. ‘Abdullāh b. al-Qāsim b. al-Mu’ayyad bi ’llāh, al-Sayyid Jamāl al-Dīn, Wasf an‘ā’, ed. ‘Abdullāh Muammad al-ībshī, an‘ā’, 1993, and English translation by Tim Mackintosh-Smith, City of Divine and Earthly Joys (forthcoming)

Anon., afaāt majhūlah min tārīkh al-yaman, ed. al-Qāī usayn b. Amad al-Sayāghī, an‘ā’, 1404/1984

Isāq b. Yayā b. Jarīr al-abarī al-an‘ānī, Tārīkh an‘ā’, ed. ‘Abdullāh Muammad al-ibshi, an‘ā’, n.d.

Muammad b. ‘Abd al-Malik al-Marwanī, Al-wajīz fī tārīkh bināyat masājid an‘ā’, an‘ā’, 1408/1988

Muammad ‘Abduh Ghānim, Shi‘r al-ghinā’ al-an‘ānī, Beirut, 1987

Muammad b. Amad al-ajarī, al-ājj, Masājid an‘ā’, an‘ā’, 1361/1942, reprinted an‘ā’–Beirut, 1397/1977

al-Rāzī see Amad

Serjeant, R.B., and Lewcock, Ronald, an‘ā’: An Arabian Islamic City, London, 1983

al-Wāsi‘ī see ‘Abd al-Wāsi’

Watson, Janet C.E., A Syntax of an‘ānī Arabic, Wiesbaden, 1993

Zayd b. ‘Alī ‘Inān, Al-lahjah al-yamāniyyah fi ’l-nukat wa ’l-amthāl al-an‘āniyyah, [Cairo?], 1400/1980

Qāt

‘Abd al-Malik ‘Alwān al-Maqramī, Al-qāt bayn al-siyāsah wa ‘ilm al-ijtimā‘, Beirut-an‘ā’, 1407/1987

Amad b. Muammad al-Mu‘allamī, ‘Tarwī al-awqāt fi ’l-munāzarah bayn al-qahwah wa ’l-qāt’, in Amad ‘Abd al-Raman al-Mu’allamī, Al-qāt fi ’l-adab al-yamanī wa ’l-fiqh al-islāmī, Beirut, 1988

Kennedy, John G., The Flower of Paradise, Dordrecht, 1987

Weir, Shelagh, Qat in Yemen, London, 1985

[Yemeni Centre for Research and Studies], Al-qāt fi ayāt al-yaman wa ’l-yamāniyyīn, an‘ā’-Beirut, 19812

Aden

‘Abdullāh al-ayyib b. ‘Abdullāh b. Amad Abī Makhramah [Bā Makhramah], rikh thaghr ‘adan, ed. Oscar Löfgren, Uppsala–Leiden, 1950, reprinted Beirut, 1407/1986

[Aden Port Trust], Port of Aden Annual, Aden, 19601, 19612, 19634 (and other dates)

Allen, Charles, The Savage Wars of Peace: Soldiers’ Voices, 194589, London, 1990

Bā Makhramah see ‘Abdullāh

Belhaven, The Master of [Hamilton, R.A.B.], The Kingdom of Melchior, London, 1949

Foster, Donald, Landscape with Arabs, Brighton–London, 1969

Gavin, RJ., Aden under British Rule, 18391967, London, 1975

[Guides and Handbooks of Africa Publishing Company], Welcome to Aden: A Comprehensive Guidebook, Nairobi, 1963

Halliday, Fred, Revolution and Foreign Policy: The Case of South Yemen, 19671987, Cambridge, 1990

asan āli Shihāb, ‘Adan furat al-yaman, an‘ā’, 1410/1990

Hunter, F.M., Account of the British Settlement of Aden in Arabia, London, 1877, reprinted London, 1968

Johnston, Charles, The View from Steamer Point, London, 1964

Knox-Mawer, June, The Sultans Came to Tea, London, 1961

Kour, Z.H., The History of Aden 183972, London, 1981

Ledger, David, Shifting Sands: The British in South Arabia, London, 1983

Lunt, James, The Barren Rocks of Aden, London, 1966

Morris, James [Jan], Farewell the Trumpets, London, 1978

[PDRY Ministry of Culture], Aden’s Bloody Monday, Aden, 1986

Stookey, Robert, South Yemen: A Marxist Republic in Arabia, Boulder, 1982

Trevaskis, Kennedy, Shades of Amber, London, 1968

Waterfield, Gordon, Sultans of Aden, London, 1968

aramawt

Abdalla [‘Abdullāh] S. Bujra, The Politics of Stratification, Oxford, 1971

‘Abd al-Qādir Muammad al-abbān, Ziyārāt wa ‘ādāt (duplicated typescript issued by the Say’ūn Department of Culture and Tourism), Say’ūn, n.d.

Allfree, P.S., Hawks of the Hadhramaut, London, 1967

Bent, Theodore [and Mabel], Southern Arabia, London, 1900

Bujra see Abdalla

Bulliet, Richard W., The Camel and the Wheel, New York, 1980

Hoek, Eva, Doctor Amongst the Bedouins, trans. Mervyn Savill, London, 1962

Ingrams, Doreen, A Time in Arabia, London, 1970

Ingrams, Harold, Arabia and the Isles, London, 1966

Johnstone, T.M., ‘Knots and Curses’, Arabian Studies, III, Cambridge–London, 1976

Lewcock, Ronald, Wādī aramawt and the Walled City of Shibām, Paris, 1986

Meulen, Daniel van der, Aden to the Hadhramaut, London, 1947

al-abbān see ‘Abd al-Qādir

Saqqāf ‘AIī al-Kāff, aramawt ‘ibr arba ‘at ‘ashar qarn, Beirut, 1410/1990

Serjeant, R. B., The Portuguese off the South Arabian Coast, Oxford, 1963, reprinted Beirut, 1974

——Studies in Arabian History and Civilisation, London, 1981

Stark, Freya, The Southern Gates of Arabia, London, 1936

——A Winter in Arabia, London, 1941

[Yemeni-Soviet Archaeological Mission], Natā’ij a‘māl al-ba‘thah li ‘ām 1984, trans. ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Ja‘far Bin ‘Aqīl and Muammad Amad Bā Makhramah, Say’ūn, 1984

Suqu

Beckingham, C.F., ‘Some Notes on the History of Socotra’, Arabian and Islamic Studies (festschrift for R.B. Serjeant), ed. R.L. Bidwell and G. Rex Smith, London, 1982

Botting, Douglas, The Island of Dragon’s Blood, London, 1958

Doe, Brian, Socotra: Island of Tranquillity, London, 1992

amzah ‘AIī Luqmān, Tārīkh al-juzur al-yamaniyyah, Beirut, 1972

Naumkin, Vitaly V., Island of the Phoenix: An Ethnographic Study of the People of Socotra, Reading, 1993

Ogilvie-Grant, W.R., The Natural History of Sokotra and Abd al-Kuri, Liverpool, 1903

Schweinfurth, G., ‘Recollections of a Voyage to Socotra by George Schweinfurth, 1881’, trans. E.A.F. Redl, Bombay, 1897, reprinted in Records of Yemen, vol. IV, ed. D. and L. Ingrams, Neuchâtel, 1993

Simeone-Senelle, Marie-Claude, ‘Suqurā: Parfums, Sucs et Résines’, Saba, no. 2, n.p., 1994

[University of Aden Research Programme, Faculty of Education], Socotra Island (in English and Arabic), Aden, 1982

Wellsted, J.R., ‘Survey of Socotra’ (India Office Records MS), facsimile in Records of Yemen, vol. I, ed. D. and L. Ingrams, Neuchâtel, 1993

Miscellaneous

‘Abdullāh al-Baraddūnī, Al-thaqāfah al-sha ‘biyyah: tajārib wa aqāwīl yamaniyyah, Cairo, 1988

——Funūn al-adab al-sha ‘bī fi ’l-yaman, Damascus, 1995

‘Abdullah Muammad al-ibshī, Al-ūfiyyah wa ’l-fuqahā’ fi ’l-yaman, an‘ā’, 1396/1976

——(ed.) Majmū‘ al-maqāmāt al-yamaniyyah, an‘ā’, 1407/1987

[Admiralty Office, Naval Intelligence Department], A Handbook of Arabia, 2 vols., London, 191617

Adra see Najwa

Ahmed al-Hubaishi [Amad al-ubayshī] and Müller-Hohenstein, Klaus, An Introduction to the Vegetation of Yemen, Eschborn, 1984

‘Alī b. Zāyid, Akām ‘alī b. zāyid, compiled by Anatoly Agarichev, Beirut–an‘ā’, 1986

al-Baraddūnī see ‘Abdullāh al-Baraddūnī

Caton, Steven C, ‘Peaks of Yemen I Summon’: Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe, Berkeley–Los Angeles–London, 1990

Costa, Paolo, Yemen Land of Builders, London, 1977

amzah ‘Alī Luqmān, Asāīr min tārīkh al-yaman, Beirut–an‘ā’, n.d.

Hansen, Eric, Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea, Boston, 1991

asan āli Shihāb, Awā’ ‘alā tārīkh al-yaman al-ba, Beirut, 1981

al-Hubaishi see Ahmed

Ismā‘īl b. ‘AIī al-Akwa‘, al-Qāi, Al-amthāl al-yamāniyyah, 2 vols., Beirut–an‘ā’, 1984

Makhlouf, Carla, Changing Veils: Women and Modernisation in North Yemen, London, 1979

Muammad Sharaf al-Dīn, Islam and Romantic Orientalism, London, 1994

Najwa Adra, Qabyalah: The Tribal Concept in the Central Highlands of the Y.A.R. (unpublished Ph.D. thesis), Philadelphia, 1982

Qā’id Nu‘mān al-Sharjabī, Al-sharā’i al-ijtimā‘iyyah al-taqlīdiyyah fi ’l-mujtama‘al-yamanī, Beirut–an‘ā’, 1986

Stone, Francine (ed.), Studies on the Tihāmah, Harlow, 1985

Varanda, Fernando, Art of Building in Yemen, London, 1981

Varisco, Daniel, ‘Dirāsah fi ’l-taqwīm al-zirā‘ī al-yamanī’, Al-ma’thūrāt al-sha‘biyyah, no. 16, al-Dawah, 1989