Yemen Books


The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut (Modern Library Paperbacks) Best Price: $7.50 I found this book absolutely fascinating as it described a time, only 70-odd years ago, when...	A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen Best Price: $4.52 A travel memoir written in the late 1930s - and 1000 years ago. It's a beautifully written,...	Yemen: The Unknown Arabia Best Price: $7.18 Very much a British Arabist travelogue, and as Sir Charles Doughty, Sir Richard Burton, Wilfred...	A History of Modern Yemen Best Price: $29.23 I spent three months in Yemen last year and bought this book before I went. I'm glad I did,...	The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in an Age of Terror Best Price: $2.14 I was on the 3-4 star borderline with this, and ultimately went down a star for two reasons. One...



The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean (California World History Library) Best Price: $19.74 The Graves of Tarim narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean over the...	Arabia Felix from the Time of the Queen of Sheba: Eighth Century B.C. to First Century A.D. Best Price: $14.95 Present day Yemen conceals one of the most enigmatic ancient cultures; the land of Sheba, or...	Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen (Clarendon Paperbacks) Best Price: $45.64 Paul Dresch here combines ethnography with history to describe the system of sedentary tribes in...	ADEN INSURGENCY: The Savage War in South Arabia 1962-87 Best Price: $29.96 Jonathan Walker, presumably an old boy of Downside, and the son of Sir Gervas Walker, to whom he...	Yemen: The politics of the Yemen Arab Republic (Westview special studies on the Middle East)



Civil Society in Yemen: The Political Economy of Activism in Modern Arabia (Cambridge Middle East Studies) Best Price: $84.86 Sheila Carapico's book on civic participation in modern Yemen makes a pathbreaking contribution...	Counter-Narratives: History, Contemporary Society, and Politics in Saudi Arabia and Yemen Best Price: $60.20 Saudi Arabia and Yemen are two countries of crucial importance in the Middle East and yet our...	Kidnapped In Yemen: One Woman's Amazing Escape from Terrorist Captivity Best Price: $12.98 The first few chapters of the book are gripping as Mary Quinn recounts the rescue attempt by the...	A Tribal Order: Politics and Law in the Mountains of Yemen (CMES Modern Middle East Series) Best Price: $50.00 A Tribal Order describes the politico-legal system of Jabal Razih, a remote massif in northern...	Yemen: Jewel of Arabia Best Price: $130.00 Exquisitely photographed, this is a wonderous book to behold. It has enough text to make the...

The Sultan's Yemen: 19th-Century Challenges to Ottoman Rule (Library of Ottoman Studies) Best Price: $56.60 When the Ottoman empire restored direct rule over Yemen, it resulted in an onslaught of foreign...	Socotra: A Natural History of the Islands and Their People Best Price: $38.25 There is nothing out there like this book. Nothing even comes close. If you're interested in...	South Arabia; 1959-1967 Best Price: $57.11	Impressions of Yemen Best Price: $33.69 This book is unlike other photographic books on Yemen, it oes not attempt to tell the whole...	Freya Stark in Southern Arabia Best Price: $25.20

Indian Ocean Migrants and State Formation in Hadhramaut: Reforming the Homeland (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia) Best Price: $262.99	Sojourners and Settlers: The Yemeni Immigrant Experience Best Price: $34.95 I am proud to be part of a book that documents the Yemeni experience of immigrating to the USA. ...	Without Glory in Arabia: The British Retreat from Aden (International Library of Colonial History) Best Price: $50.88 The closing years of British presence in South Arabia were remarkable for the lack of vision an...	British Policy in Southwest Arabia, 1959-1967 (British Foreign and Colonial Policy) Best Price: $168.55 This book provides the first detailed account of the confrontation which took place between...	My footsteps echo: The Yemen journal of Rabbi Yaakov Sapir

The Saudi-Egyptian Conflict over North Yemen, 1962-1970 Best Price: $12.50	The Struggle for South Yemen	Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land This is a book of poetry. MacKintosh has immersed himself so much in the culture that he has...	Cool for Qat: A Yemeni Journey: Two Countries, Two Times Best Price: $16.14 When author Peter Mortimer was commissioned to write a play about the little-known "Arab...	Revival and Reform in Islam: The Legacy of Muhammad al-Shawkani (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) Best Price: $17.99 I found this book to be an incredibly instructive introduction to Salafi thought and legal...

Yemen into the Twenty-First Century: Continuity and Change (Exeter Arab and Islamic Studies) Best Price: $54.50	The History, Poetry, and Genealogy of the Yemen: The Akhbar of Abid b. Sharya Al-Jurhumi Best Price: $102.00 The history, poetry, and genealogy of the Yemen is the earliest known history of pre-Islamic...	The Jewish Kingdom of Himyar (Yemen): Its Rise and Fall.: An article from: Midstream Best Price: $5.95 This digital document is an article from Midstream, published by Theodor Herzl Foundation on May...	Queen of Sheba: Treasures from Ancient Yemen Best Price: $45.00 Exhibitions at the British Museum are always accompanied by catalogues, which are often...	The Moral Resonance of Arab Media: Audiocassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs) Best Price: $22.99 In a groundbreaking study of contemporary Arab political poetry, Flagg Miller provides a wide...

Aden and the Indian Ocean Trade: 150 Years in the Life of a Medieval Arabian Port (Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks) Best Price: $42.69 Positioned at the crossroads of the maritime routes linking the Indian Ocean and the...	Arabia Felix: An Exploration of the Archaeological History of Yemen Best Price: $44.99 Yemen's archaeological treasures tell the story of a rich pre-Islamic civilisation of...	Islam, Memory, and Morality in Yemen: Ruling Families in Transition (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion) Best Price: $29.92 This book tells a story of a Yemeni hereditary elite that was overthrown in the 1962 revolution...	Yemen in Pictures (Visual Geography (Lerner)) Best Price: $25.07	British Counterinsurgency: From Palestine to Northern Ireland Best Price: $90.40 Very informative intellectual work. Serious and rich analysis of all cases covered. Highly...

Arabia Infelix: Or the Turks in Yamen (Folios Archive Library) Best Price: $22.00	Caravan Kingdoms: Yemen and the Ancient Incense Trade Best Price: $150.00	Valley of Mud-Brick Architecture (Ancient to Contemporary Design) (Ancient to Contemporary Design) Best Price: $85.00 Examining in detail the cities of Shibam and Tarim, Dr Damluji analyses the buildings and...	A Traveller in Thirteenth-Century Arabia (Hakluyt Society, Third Series) Best Price: $96.80	Islam, Charity, and Activism: Middle-Class Networks and Social Welfare in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen (Indiana Series in Middle East Studies) Best Price: $23.94

Studies in the Medieval History of the Yemen and South Arabia (Collected Studies, 574) Best Price: $104.02	Britain and the Yemen Civil War, 1962-1965: Ministers, Mercenaries and Mandarins: Foreign Policy and the Limits of Covert Action Best Price: $50.90	Revolution and Foreign Policy: The Case of South Yemen, 1967-1987 (Cambridge Middle East Library) Best Price: $46.47 This book is a study of the foreign policy of South Yemen, the most radical of Arab states, from...	A Journey Through The Yemen And Some General Remarks Upon That Country Best Price: $33.25	On the Edge of Empire: Hadhramawt, Emigration, and the Indian Ocean, 1880S-1930s (S U N Y Series in Near Eastern Studies) Best Price: $0.47 As a Hadhrami who has lived abroad for most of his life, I found "On the Edge of...

GAYSH: A History of the Aden Protectorate Levies 1927-61, and the Federal Regular Army of South Arabia 1961-67 Best Price: $65.55 The Gaysh tells the story of the emergence of an army following early attempts to protect the...	Yemen in the 18th and 19th Centuries: Political and Intellectual History (Durham Middle East Monographs) Best Price: $26.00	Yemenite Jews Capturing some of the most beautiful images of world jewry, Zion Ozeri exemplifies what our...	The History of Aden Best Price: $46.20	Yemen - Present and Past

The Amiriya: A Sixteenth-Century Madrasa in Yemen (Oxford Studies in Islamic Art , No 13) Best Price: $80.00 The latest volume in the Oxford Studies in Islamic Art series documents the four-year project to...	Studies on Yemen, 1975-1990:: A Bibliography of European Language Sources for Social Scientists (Yemen Bibliography Series) Best Price: $131.76	Socotra

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