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Resource Guide for Yemeni Studies

Looking for references on Yemen? Below you will find bibliographic sources for books, articles, online materials and manuscripts. If you know of a resource not on this list, please send the information to the webshaykh.

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Bibliographic Resources

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Almanac page from Kitāb al-Tabṣira fī ‘ilm al-nujūm of al-Malik al-Ashraf ‘Umar, 13th century

(Bodleian Library, Oxford)

Books and Articles:

• Auchterlonie, Paul (1998). Yemen, World Bibliographical Series Vol. 50. Oxford: Clio Press.

• Blackburn, J. R. “Arabic and Turkish Source Materials for the Early History of Ottoman Yemen, 945/1538–976/1568.” In Studies in the History of Arabia. Part 2, Vol. 1, Sources for the History of Arabia. Edited by Abdelgadir M. Abdalla, Sami al-Sakkar, and Richard Mortel, 197–210. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Riyadh University Press, 1979.

• Buringa, Joke (1994). Bibliography on Women in Yemen. New York: American Institute for Yemeni Studies.

• Gochenour, D. Thomas. “A Revised Bibliography of Medieval Yemeni History in Light of Recent Publications and Discoveries.” Der Islam 63 (1986): 309–322.

• Macro, Eric. Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula and Notes on Mocha. Miami: University of Miami Press, 1960. 

• Mondesir, Simoné. A Select Bibliography of Yemen Arab Republic and Peoples’ Democratic Republic of Yemen. Durham, UK: University of Durham, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, 1977.

 

• Stevenson, Thomas B (1994). Studies on Yemen, 1975-1990: A Bibliography of European Language Sources for Social Scientists. New York: American Institute for Yemeni Studies.

Online Bibliographies:

• Arabic Collections Online

http://dlib.nyu.edu/aco/search/?q=%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%86&scope=containsAny

 

* Digital Library for International Research (Yemen)

[1267 entries]

http://www.dlir.org/bibliography-search.html?view=search&bid=3&stype=&sword=&bstyle=apa

• "Fragments de bibliothèque yéménite médiévale sur Internet" (Eric Vallet) Chroníques du Manuscrit au Yémen 12(2011)

https://journals.openedition.org/cmy/1913

 

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: "Yemen"

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ls?field1=ocr;q1=yemen;a=srchls;lmt=ft

 

• Islam in Yemen, Oxford Bibliographies (D. Varisco) 

https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195390155/obo-9780195390155-0093.xml

[Subscription based]

• Rasulid Yemen Resources (D. Varisco)

http://ahjur.org/rasulid/rasulid.html

 

• “Recent Publishing Activity by the Zaydis in Yemen: A Select Bibliography.” (Bernard Haykel) Chroniques Yéménites 9 (2002): 225–230.

https://journals.openedition.org/cy/2681

• Recommended Bibliography on Yemen (British-Yemeni Society)

http://b-ys.org.uk/resources/yemen-bibliography

• The Jews of Yemen, Oxford Bibliographies (Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman)

https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199840731/obo-9780199840731-0168.xml?rskey=VQjGDU&result=3&q=yemen#firstMatch

• World Digital Library

https://www.wdl.org/en/search/?q=Yemen

• Zaydiyya, Oxford Bibliographies (Daniel Peterson) https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195390155/obo-9780195390155-0153.xml?rskey=VQjGDU&result=2&q=yemen#firstMatch

Books and Articles for Yemeni Manuscript Sources:

• al-‘Aydarūs, ‘Abd Allāh Ḥusayn and ‘Abd al-Qādir b. Ṣāliḥ b.Shihāb (2005).  Fihris makhṭūṭāt maktabat al-Aḥqāf bi-muḥāfaẓat Ḥaḍramawt al-Jumhuriyya al-Yamaniyya. Qum, Kitābkhāna-i Buzurg-i Hadrat-i Āyatallāh al-‘Uẓmā Mar‘ashī Najafī.

 

• al-Ḥibshī, ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad (1979) Ḥukkām al-Yaman al-mu’alufūn al-mujtahidūn. Beirut: Dār al-Qu’rān al-Karīm.
• al-Ḥibshī, ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad (1979). Mu'allafāt Hukkām al-Yaman. The Works of the Rulers of Yemen. Ed. Elke Niewöhner-Eberhard. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
al-Ḥibshī, ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad (2004). Maṣādir al-fikr al-‘Arabī al-islāmī fī al-Yaman. Ṣan‘ā': Markaz al-Dirāsāt wa-al-Buḥūth al-Yamanī. [The index is inaccurate for the first edition of 1977.]

 

• Sayyid, Ayman Fu’ad. Sources de l’histoire du Yémen à l’époque musulmane. Cairo, Egypt: Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale du Caire, 1974.

• al-Wajīh. ‘Abd al-Salām ‘Abbās. (2002) Maṣādir al-turāth fī al-maktabāt al-khāṣṣa fī al-Yaman, Ṣan‘ā’, Mu’assasat al-Imām Zayd b. ‘Alī al-Thaqāfiyya, 2 vol.

Finding PDFs of Books on Yemen 

Many Arabic texts, as well as books in Western languages, can be found online in pdf format; some are even available as open access. Finding specific books is not always simple, but there are several ways to try.

 

1. In a browser type in the name of the book and author in Arabic followed by "PDF" and you may find the source quickly.

 

2. One of the major online sources is archive.org, although many books are available there without the title or author indicated. do not give up if the "search" does not find your book. There are several online sources that often link to Arabic books on archive.org.  There are about 1,300 texts in various language if you simply search for "Yemen," if you have time to browse.

3. Two of the best sources for Arabic books on Yemen (as well as many other topics) are the Facebook sites المكتبة التاريخية اليمنية. and كتب تاريخ وآثار الجزيرة العربية .There is no index on either, so you will need to spend some time browsing, but new pdfs are uploaded all the time.

4. Try some of the sources listed below...

Sources to Search

• كتان بديا

https://ketabpedia.com/?s=%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%86&product_cat=0&post_type=product

• ملتقى المؤخرين اليمنية

Wefaq.net

• حول اليمن الميمون

http://yamanuna.blogspot.com/

• Islamport

http://islamport.com/

• المكتبة الشاملة (al-Maktaba al-Shāmila)

http://shamela.ws/

 

• مكتبة المصطفى الالكترونية (al-Maktaba al-Mostafa)

https://www.al-mostafa.com/

• 4-Shared

https://www.4shared.com/

• الباخث العلمى 

http://k-tb.com/

 

• رشف - قاعدة الكتب العبية

https://rashf.com/

 

•  شبكة رافـد للتنمية الثقافية

https://books.rafed.net

• انا زيدي

http://www.anazaidi.com/catplay.php?catsmktba=36

• الفقه والفرائض

https://alzzaidi.wordpress.com

• اینجــــا یک کتابخانه دیجیتالی است

https://library.tebyan.net/

 

•  کتابخانه مدرسه فقاهت

http://lib.eshia.ir/

• كتابخانة ديجيتالي نور

https://www.noorlib.ir/View/fa/BookAlphabet?SearchText=اليمن

• Digital Assets Repository
http://dar.bibalex.org/webpages/searchresults.jsf

 

• Library of Congress (USA)

https://www.loc.gov/search/?in=&q=Yemen&new=true

• Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

https://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/iud
[For several German references on Yemen.]

• Digitale Bibliothek/Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum

https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/c/2b2c878a-26e4-4bd9-b805-7d4363b9625c/items?sortField=scanDate&filter=subject_facet%3A%22Zaiditen%22

• Yemen Archive
https://archive.org/details/@yemen_archive

The Yemeni Journal al-Iklīl (الاكليل)

• All issues until 2012 online at

http://www.mediafire.com/?in4p3zddclx9j

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