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Aden

al-‘Abdalī, Aḥmad Faḍl ibn ‘Alī Muḥsin
1980 Hadīya al-zaman fī akhbār mulūk Laḥj wa-‘Adan. Beirut: Dār al-‘Awda. Second edition. [Original text from AH 1351; covers Rasulids, pp. 76-88.]

Abū Makhrama, Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh (died 947/1540)
See Löfgren 1936.

Abudahesh, Abdulaziz
2005 Commercial Activities in Ayyubid and Early Rasulid Yemen (569-694/1173-1295). Ph.D. thesis, University of Manchester.

al-‘Anīsī, Ḥusayn Ṣāliḥ Ḥusayn
2009 al-Ḥayāt al-‘ilmīya fī ‘Adan min al-qarn al-khāmis ḥattā al-qarn al-thāmin al-hijrī (al-qarn al-ḥādī ‘ashar ḥattā al-rābi‘ ‘ashar al-mīlādī). Ph.D. Thesis, Jāmi‘at Ṣan‘ā'.

al-‘Arāshi, ‘Abd al-Ḥakīm Muḥammad
2011 Jamārik mīnā' ‘Adan fī ‘aṣr al-Dawla al-Rasūliyya. Nadwat ‘Adan Bawābat al-Yaman al-Ḥaḍāriyya, 419-431. Aden: Jāmi‘at Aden.Cahen, Claude and R. B. Serjeant
1957 A Fiscal Survey of the Medieval Yemen. Arabica 4(1):23-33.

Bā‘īd, Muḥammad Manṣūr
2012 ‘Adan fī ‘aṣr al-dawla al-Rasūlīya (629-858H/1231-1454M). Dār al-Wifāq li-al-Dirāsāt wa-al-Nashr.

Doe, Brian
1963 Pottery sites near Aden. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 63:150-62.

Ducatez, G.
2004 Aden aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles selon Ibn al-Muǧāwir. Son passé légendaire, son histoire sous les Zuray‘ides et les Ayyoubides, son site, ses monuments et ses aménagements. Annales islamologiques 38:159-200.
2003 Aden et l’océan Indien au XIIIe siècle: navigation et commerce d’après Ibn al-Muǧāwir. Annales islamologiques 37:137-156.

Farḥān, ‘Abbās ‘Alawī Ḥusayn
2011 ‘Adan fī ‘ahd al-Ṭāhiriyīn (858-945 H/1454-1538 M). Aden: Jāmi‘at Aden

Hardy-Guilbert, C. and A. Rougeulle
1997 Ports islamiques du Yémen: Prospections archéologiques sur les côtes yéménites (1993-1995). Archéologie islamique 7:146-196.

Hudayl, Ṭaha Ḥusayn
2012 al-Qarṣana al-baḥrīya fī al-Yaman fī al-‘aṣr al-Islāmī. Majallat Jāmi‘a Dhamār li-al-Dirāsāt wa-al-Buḥūth 14:231-252.
2011 Aswāq madīnat ‘Adan fī ‘aṣr al-dawlatayn al-Ayyubiyya wa-al-Rasūliyya wa-ta’thīrhā al-ijtimā‘ī wa-al-tirafihī. Nadwat ‘Adan bawābat al-Yaman al-Ḥaḍāriyya. Aden: Jami‘at Aden.

Ibrāhīm, Muḥammad Karīm
1988 Injāzāt al-Ayyūbiyīn fī tashjī‘ wa-ḥimāyat al-tijāra wa-al-tujjār fī mīnā' ‘Adan ḥ. 569-626/m. 1173-1228. al-Khalīj al-‘Arabī 20:2:27-48. [information mainly from Ibn al-Mujāwir]
1985 ‘Adan: Dirāsat fī aḥwāl-hā al-siyāsiyya wa-al-iqtiṣādiyya h.476-626/m.1083-1228. Basra: Jāmi‘at Baṣra, Markaz Dirāsāt al-Khalīj al-‘Arabī.

King, G. R. D., C. Tonghini and D. Dunlop
1996 A Survey of the Islamic Sites near Aden and in the Abyan District. London.

Lane, A and R. B. Serjeant
1948 Pottery and glass fragments from the Aden littoral, with historical notes. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 20:108-33.

Luqmān, Ḥamza ‘Alī Ibrāhīm
2008/1960 Ta’rīkh ‘Adan wa-janūb al-jazīra al-‘Arabiyya. Aden: Aden University Printing and Publishing House.

Margariti, Roxani E.
2021 The Rasūlids and the Bountiful Sea: Marine Resources, State Control, and Maritime Culture in the Southern Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden (626/1229‒854/1454). Der Islam 98(1):69-99.
2007 Aden and the Indian Ocean Trade: 150 Years in the Life of a Medieval Arabian Port. Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks. Durham: The University of North Carolina Press.

Prados, Edward
1994 An Archaeological Investigation of Sira Bay, Aden, Republic of Yemen. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 297-307.

Sa‘īd, M.
2004 Dawr al-Yaman fī al-tijāra al-sharqīya al-kubrā min sanat 825 H/1422 M ilā sanat 923 H/1517 M. In A. Temimi, ed. Mélanges méditerranéens d’amité et de reconnaissance à André Raymond, 159-188. Tunis.

Serjeant, R. B.
1989 Early Islamic and Medieval Trade and Commerce in the Yemen. In Werner Daum, editor, Yemen. 3000 Years of Art and Civilisation, 163-66. Innsbruck: Pinguin-Verlag.
1988 Yemeni Merchants and Trade in Yemen, 13th-16th Centuries. In Jean Aubin and Denys Lombard, editors, Marchands et hommes d’affaires asiatiques dans l’océan Indien et la mer de Chine (XIIIe-XIXe siècles), 61-82. Paris: EHESS.
1974b The Ports of Aden and Shihr (medieval period). In Les Grandes Escales I. Recueils de la Sociéte Jean Bodin, 32 (10e Colloque d'Histoire Maritime), 207-224. Brussels. (reprinted in Serjeant 1981b).

Smith, G. Rex
2008 A Traveler in Thirteenth-Century Arabia: Ibn al-Mujāwir’s Tārīkh al-Mustabṣir. London: The Hakluyt Society.
1996 More on the Port Practices and Taxes of Medieval Yemen. New Arabian Studies 3:208-18.
1995 Have You Anything to dDclare? Maritime Trade and Commerce in Ayyubid Aden: Practices and Taxes. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 25:127-40.
1995 Magic, Jinn and the Supernatural in Medieval Yemen: Examples from Ibn al-Muǧāwir’s 7th/13th Century Guide. Quaderni di Studi Arabi 13:7-18.

Whitcomb, Donald S.
1988 Islamic Archaeology in Aden and the Hadhramaut. In D. T. Potts, editor, Araby the Blest. Studies in Arabian Archaeology, 177-262. Copenhagen.

Agriculture and Irrigation

Baba, Tamon
2014 Yemen under the Rasūlids during the 13th Century: An Analysis of the Supply Origin of Court Cooking Ingredients. Chroniques du Manuscrit au Yémen 13 Online at https://journals.openedition.org/cmy/2041
2013 Cooking Ingredients of the Rasūlid Court during the 13th Century: Their Relation to the Indian Ocean Trade. Bulletin of the Society for Western and Southern Asiatic Studies, 79:40‑55. [in Japanese].
2011 An Analysis of the Supply Origin of Court Cooking Ingredients in Yemen under the Rasūlids during the 13th Century”, Annals of Japan Association for Middle East Studies, 27(1):1‑28 [in Japanese].

Hehmeyer, Ingrid
2015 Water Engineering and Management Practices in South Arabia: Aspects of Continuity and Change from Ancient to Medieval and Modern Times. In Andre Gingrich & S. Haas, editors, South Arabia across History: Essays to the Memory of Walter Dostal, 43-54. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
2010 Zur Geschichte der städtischen Wasserversorgung im islamischen Jemen. In Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg (Hrsg.), Wasserwelten: Badekultur und Technik. Begleitschrift zur Ausstellung Wasserwelten im Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg 15. August – 17. Oktober 2010, 152-167. Mainz: Zabern.
1995 Physical Evidence of Engineered Water Systems in Mediaeval Zabīd. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 25:45–54 and plates III–V.

Hehmeyer, Ingrid and Edward J. Keall
1993 Water and Land Management in the Zabid Hinterland. al-Uṣūr al-Wusṭā, Bulletin of the Middle East Medievalists 5(2):25-27.

Jāzim, Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Raḥīm
1985 Kitāb Mulāḥ al-malāḥa fī ma‘rifat al-filāḥa. al-Iklīl 3(1):170-207.

Keall, Edward J. and Ingrid Hehmeyer
1998 Sponsorship of a Madrasa, Reflecting the Value of Farmland in the Urban Economy of Zabīd, Yemen. Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 10:33–35, 47.

al-Malik al-Afḍal al-‘Abbās
2016 Bughyat al-fallāḥīn fī al-ashjār al-muthmira wa-al-rayāḥīn. Edited by Khālid b. Khalfān b. Nāṣir al-Wahībī. Damascus Dār al-Farqad. 2 volumes.

Al-Mandā‘ī, Dāwūd.
1412/1992 Al-Zirā‘a fī al-Yaman fī ‘aṣr al-dawla al-Rasūliyya. M. A. Dissertation. Jordan: al-Yarmūk University.

Meyerhoff, Max
1944 Sur un traité d'agriculture composé par un sultan yéménite du XIVe siècle. Bulletin de l'Institut d'Egypte 25:55-63; 26:51-65.

Salameh, Nadim H.
1999 Customary Water-Rights in Mediaeval Wādī Zabīd: Some Legal Cases on al-ʿādil bi’l-qanāʿah. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 29:137–142.

Serjeant, R. B.
1974 The cultivation of cereals in medieval Yemen. Arabian Studies 1:25-74.
1971 Agriculture and horticulture: some cultural interchanges of the medieval Arabs and Europe. Oriente e Occidente nel medioevo, 535-48.

Varisco, Daniel Martin
2021 A Late Yemeni Copy of Rasulid Almanac Lore. Arabia Felix Center for Studies, September. Online at https://arabiafelixstudies.com/en/?s=Varisco
Ta'rīkh azmat al-miyāh fī al-Yaman. Arabia Felix Center for Studies, April. Online at https://arabiafelixstudies.com/تاريخ-أزمة-المياه-في-اليمن/
2020 Bughyat al-fallāḥīn fi al-ashjār al-muthmira wa-al-rayāḥīn, al-Malik al-Afḍal al-‘Abbās b. ‘Alī b. Dāwūd al-Rasūlī. Edited by Khālid Khalfān b. Nāṣir al-Wahībī (2016). al-Usur al-Wusta. Vol. 28:443-447. Online at https://www.middleeastmedievalists.com/al-usur-al-wusta
2017 Date Palm Production in Rasulid Yemen. Ulrich Haarmann Memorial Lecture, ed. Stephan Conermann. Berlin: EB Verlag.
2016 Pars Pro Toto Observation: Historical Anthropology in the Textual Field of Rasulid Yemen. History and Anthropology 26(1):92-109.
2011 Medieval Agricultural Texts from Yemen. Published online at http://www.filaha.org/medieval_agricultural.html. [Updated version of an article originally published in 1989.]
2010 The Milh al-Malâha of al-Malik al-Ashraf ‘Umar (d. 696/1296): Situating the Ur-Text of the Rasulid Agricultural Corpus. Chroníques du Manuscrit au Yémen.#9. Online at https://journals.openedition.org/cmy/1892?lang=en.
2006 The State of Agriculture in Late 13th Century Rasulid Yemen. Proceedings of Storia e Cultura dello Yemen in Età Islamica, 161-174. Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
2002 Taqwīm al-sulṭān ‘Umar ibn Yūsuf al-Rasūlī. In Dirāsāt fī Ta’rīkh al-Yaman al-Islāmī, 144-163. Ṣan‘ā’: Institute for Yemeni Studies. [Introduction to my 1994 almanac book; translated into Arabic by Noha Sadek.]
2002 Agriculture in Rasulid Zabid. Journal of Semitic Studies. Supplement 14. Studies on Arabia in Honour of Professor G. Rex Smith, edited by J. F. Healey and V. Porter, 323-351. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1997 Medieval Folk Astronomy and Agriculture in Arabia and the Yemen. Aldershot: Variorum.
1994 An Anonymous 14th Century Almanac from Rasulid Yemen. Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 9:195-228.
1994 Medieval Agriculture and Islamic Science. The Almanac of a Yemeni Sultan. Seattle: University of Washington Press. [Reviews in Annals of the Association of American Geographers 87(1):186-187, 1997; Asian Folklore Studies 55(1):190, 1996; British Journal of Middle East Studies 22(1-2):202-203, 1995; Bulletin of the Middle East Studies Association, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 59(1):148-150, 1996; Der Islam 74:374-378, 1997; Historische Zeitschrift 262:576-577, 1996; Isis 86(3):476-477, 1995; Journal of the American Oriental Society 116(1):151-152, 1996; Journal for the Economic and Social History of the Orient 41(1):121-123, 1998; Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 5(3)415-417, 1995; Journal of Semitic Studies 41(1)178-179, 1996; al-Ma'thûrât al-Sha'biyya 38:19-23, 123-125, 1995; Tarih Incelemeleri Dergisi 20(1):167-169, 2005; Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 10:348-351, 1995/96.]
1993 A Rasulid Agricultural Almanac for 808/1405-6. New Arabian Studies 1:108-123.
1991 A Royal Crop Register from Rasulid Yemen. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 34:1-22.
1989 Rasulid Agriculture and the Almanac Tradition. In Werner Daum, editor, Yemen. 3000 Years of Art and Civilisation, 309-11. Innsbruck: Pinguin-Verlag.
1989 Medieval Agricultural Texts from Rasulid Yemen. Manuscripts of the Middle East (Leiden), 4:150-154.
1985 al-Tawqī‘āt al-zirā‘īya wa-al-‘ilmīya bi-al-taqwīm al-majhūl min ‘aṣr Banī Rasūl. Dirāsāt Yamanīya (Ṣan‘ā'), 20:192-222.
1985 The Production of Sorghum (Dhurah) in Highland Yemen. Arabian Studies, 7:53-88.

Algebra

King, David
2012 The Invention of Algebra in Zabīd: Between Legend and Fact. In Felicitas Opwis and David Reisman, editors, Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion: Studies in Honor of Dimitri Gutas, 223-231. Leiden: Brill.

Almanacs and Calendars

Animals

Canova, Giovanni
2006 Il trattato di ippologia al-Aqwālial-kāfiya wa-l-fuṣūl al-shāfiya del sovrano rasūlide al-Malik al-Mujāhid ‘Alī b. Dāwūd. Proceedings of Storia e Cultura dello Yemen in Età Islamica, 101-131. Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

Ibn Ḥamza, Aḥmad ibn ‘Abd Allāh (fl. 7th/13th century)
1979 Ta'rīkh al-khuyūl al-‘Arabīya. Ṣan‘ā': Y. A. R., Ministry of Information and Culture.

Mahoney, Daniel
2017 The Role of Horses in the Politics of Late Medieval South Arabia. Arabian Humanities 8. Online at https://journals.openedition.org/cy/3287

Al‑Malik al‑Mujāhid
1987 Al‑Aqwāl al‑kāfiya wa‑al‑fuṣūl al‑shāfiya fī al‑khayl. Yaḥyā Wahīb al‑Jabbūrī, editor. Beirut: Dār al-Gharb al-Islāmī.

al-Nāshirī, Taqī al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbās Ḥamza (died 926/1520)
1985 Intihāz al-furaṣ fī al-ṣayd wa-al-qanaṣ. Ṣan‘ā': al-Dār al-Yamanīya li-al-Nashr wa-al-Tawzī‘. (Editor: ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad al-Ḥibshī).

Shehada, H. A.
2013 Mamluks and Animals: Veterinary Medicine in Medieval Islam. Leiden, Brill.

Arabic (and other languages)

Berta, Árpád
2001 Review of: The King's Dictionary. The Rasûlid Hexaglot: Fourteenth CenturyVocabularies in Arabic, Persian, Turkic, Greek, Armenian and Mongol. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 91:477-488.

Bulakh, Maria
2017 Al-Malik Al-Afḍal’s 14th-Century “Arabic-Ethiopic Glossary” as an Attempt at Language Documentation. Chroníques du Manuscrit au Yémen, Anne Regourd and Nancy Um, editors. Special Issue 1:1-30. Online at http://www.cdmy.org/cmyhs/cmyhs01.pdf.
2015 Hristianskaya terminologiya v ‘Arabsko-efiopskom Glossarii XIV v., Vestnik Pravoslavnogo Svyato-Tihonovskogo Gumanitarnogo Universiteta. III: Filologiya 5/45:20–29 [In Russian].

Bulakh, Maria and Leonid Kogan
2017 The Arabic-Ethiopic Glossary by al-Malik al-Afḍal. Leiden: Brill.
2015 Towards a Comprehensive Edition of the Arabic-Ethiopic Glossary of al-
Malik al-Afḍal. Part III: New Readings from the Third Sheet. Aethiopica 18:56–80.
2014 Towards a Comprehensive Edition of the Arabic-Ethiopic Glossary of al-Malik al-Afḍal. Part II: New Readings from the Second Sheet. Aethiopica 17:151–168.
2013 Towards a Comprehensive Edition of the Arabic-Ethiopic Glossary of al-Malik al-Afḍal. Part 1: New Readings from the First Sheet. Aethiopica 16:1-11.

Fīrūzābādī, Majīd al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ya‘qūb (d. 816/1414)
al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ.[many editions]
Online at http://arabiclexicon.hawramani.com/firuzabadi-al-qamus-al-muhit/

Golden, Peter B.
1985[1987] The Byzantine Greek Elements in the Rasûlid Hexaglot. Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 5:41-166.
2009 Rasulid Hexaglot. Encyclopaedia Iranica. Electronic document, http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/rasulid-hexaglot

Golden, Peter B., editor
2000 The King’s Dictionary: The Rasūlid Hexaglot. Leiden: Brill.

Ligeti, Louis and György Kara
2012 Vocabulaires Mongols des Polyglottes de Yemen. Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 65(2):137-221.

Markopoulos, Theodore
2017 The Rasûlid Hexaglot and the Deevelopment of the Greek Future. In Frédéric Lambert, Rutger J. Allan and Theodore Markopoulos, editors, The Greek Future and its History, 285-306. Louvain-La-Neuve: Peeters.

Muth, Franz-Christoph
2010 Eine arabisch-äthiopische Wort- und Satzliste aus Jerusalem vom 15. Jahrhundert. Afriques 1, Online at https://afriques.revues.org/535
2009-2010 Frühe Zeugnisse des Amharischen und der Gurage-Sprachen in einer Polyglotten Wortliste von al-Malik al-Afḍal (GEST. 778/1377). Folia Orientalia 45-46:87-109.

Nashwān ibn Sa‘īd al-Ḥimyarī (died 573/1177)
1999 Shams al-‘ulūm. Damascus: Dār al-Fikr. (Editors: Ḥusayn ‘Abd Allāh al-‘Amrī et al.)
ةنلينع ات https://books.rafed.net/view.php?type=c_fbook&b_id=1366
1951-53 Shams al-‘ulūm. Leiden: Brill. (Editor: K. V. Zettersteen; two volumes).
1916 Shams al-‘ulūm. Leiden: Brill.

al-Ṣaghānī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad (d. 650/1252)
1971 al-Takmila wa-al-dhayl wa-al-ṣila li-kitāb tāj al-lugha wa-ṣiḥaḥ al-‘Arabīya. Cairo: Maṭba‘at al-Kutayb.

Strohmeyer, Virgil
2002 Review of: The King's Dictionary: The Rasulid Hexaglot: Fourteenth Century Vocabularies in Arabic, Persian, Turkic, Greek, Armenian and Mongol. Iran & the Caucasus, 6(1/2):273-275.

Archaeology

Bonnenfant, Paul
2004 Zabīd au Yémen. Archéologie du vivant. Aix-en-Provence: Édisud.

Costa, Paolo
1979 The Study of the City of Ẓafār (al-Balīd). Journal of Oman Studies 5:111-150.
1973 Antiquities from Ẓafār. Annali dell'Instituto Orientale di Napoli 33:185-206.

Cuik, C. and Edward J. Keall
1995 Zabid Project Pottery Manual. Pre-Islamic and Islamic Ceramics from the Zabid Area, North Yemen. Oxford: BAR International Series.

Hancock, R. G. V. et al.
1987 Chemical Analysis of Yemeni Archaeological Ceramics and the Egyptian Enigma. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 110:293-302.

Hardy-Guilbert, C.
2005 La “mustard ware” yéménite, un marquer chronologique du XIVe siècle. Taoci 4:117-125.

Hardy-Guilbert, C. and A. Rougeulle
1997 Ports islamiques du Yémen: Prospections archéologiques sur les côtes yéménites (1993-1995). Archéologie islamique 7:146-196.

Hehmeyer, Ingrid
2015 Water Engineering and Management Practices in South Arabia: Aspects of Continuity and Change from Ancient to Medieval and Modern Times. In Andre Gingrich & S. Haas, editors, South Arabia across History: Essays to the Memory of Walter Dostal, 43-54. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
2010 Zur Geschichte der städtischen Wasserversorgung im islamischen Jemen. In Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg (Hrsg.), Wasserwelten: Badekultur und Technik. Begleitschrift zur Ausstellung Wasserwelten im Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg 15. August – 17. Oktober 2010, 152-167. Mainz: Zabern.
2007 Water and Waste in Mediaeval Zabīd, Yemen. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 37:111-123.
1995 Physical Evidence of Engineered Water Systems in Mediaeval Zabīd. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 25:45–54 and plates III–V.

Hehmeyer, Ingrid and Edward J. Keall
1993 Water and Land Management in the Zabid Hinterland. al-Uṣūr al-Wusṭā, Bulletin of the Middle East Medievalists 5(2):25-27.

Keall, Edward J.
2012. Getting to the Bottom of Zabid: The Canadian Archaeological Mission in Yemen, 1982–2011. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 42:129–142.
2008 The Changing Positions of Zabîd’s Red Sea Port Sites. Chroniques yéménites 15:111-125. Online at http://cy.revues.org/1678.
1999 Les fouilles de la mission archéologique canadienne. In Paul Bonnenfant, editor, Zabīd, patrimoine mondial, 19-23. Bruxelles: Saba: Arts - Littérature - Histoire - Arabie méridionale, 5-6.
1999 Archäologie in der Tihamah. Die Forschungen der Kanadischen Archäologischen Mission des Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, in Zabid und Umgebung. Jemen-Report 30(1):27-32.
1997 Zabīd. In E. M. Meyers, editor, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, 5:385-386. Oxford.
1993 One Man's Mede is another Man's Persian: One Man's Coconut is another Man's Grenade. Muqarnas 10:275-85.
1993 The Medieval Environment of Zabid, Yemen. National Geographic Research and Exploration 9(4):475–477.
1992 Smokers' Pipes and the Fine Pottery Tradition of Ḥays. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 22:29-46.
1992 Smoking a Coconut. Rotunda 24:4:12-17.
1991 Drastic Changes in 16th Century Zabīd. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 21:79-96.
1989 A Few Facts about Zabīd, Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 19:61-69.
1989 Revealing the Past through Reconstructed Walls. Rotunda 22:2:28-33.
1986 Bringing the Dome to Yemen. Rotunda (Royal Ontario Museum) 19:2:30-39.
1984 A Preliminary Report on the Architecture of Zabīd. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 14:51-65.
1983 The Dynamics of Zabīd and its Hinterland: The Survey of a Town on the Tihāmah Plain of North Yemen. World Archaeology 14:378-92.
1983 Zabīd and its Hinterland: 1982 report, Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 13:53-69.

Keall, Edward J. and Ingrid Hehmeyer
1998 Sponsorship of a Madrasa, Reflecting the Value of Farmland in the Urban Economy of Zabīd, Yemen. Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 10:33–35, 47.

King, G. R. D., C. Tonghini and D. Dunlop
1996 A Survey of the Islamic Sites near Aden and in the Abyan District. London.

Mahoney, Daniel
2014 The Political Landscape of the Dhamar Plain in the Central Highlands of Yemen during the Late Medieval and Early Ottoman Periods. Ph.D. Thesis, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago.

Mason, R. B. and E. J. Keall
1988 Islamic Ceramics: Petrography and Provenance. Proceedings of the 26th International Archaeometry Symposium (Toronto), 184-87.
1988 Provenance of Local Ceramic Industry and the Characterization of Imports: Petrography of Pottery from Medieval Yemen. Antiquity 62:452-63.
1986 Provenance Studies of Islamic Pottery from Yemen: INAA and Petrographic Analysis. Proceedings of the 25th International Archaeometry Symposium (Athens), 543-50.

Prados, Edward
1994 An Archaeological Investigation of Sira Bay, Aden, Republic of Yemen. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 297-307.

Regert, M., T. Devièse, A.-S. Le Hô and A. Rougeuille
2008 Reconstructing Ancient Yemen Commercial Routes during the Middle Ages using Structural Characterisation of Terpenoid Resins. Archaeoometry 50(4):668-695.

al-Thenayian, Mohammed A. Rashed
1999 An Archaeological Study of the Yemeni Highland Pilgrim Route between Ṣan‘ā’ and Mecca. Riyadh.

Whitcomb, Donald S.
1988 Islamic Archaeology in Aden and the Hadhramaut. In D. T. Potts, editor, Araby the Blest. Studies in Arabian Archaeology, 177-262. Copenhagen.

Architecture

al-Adhamī, Muḥammad Muẓaffar
2007 Ta'rīkh Ibb: Dirāsa ta'rīkhīya li-madīnat Ibb wa-mā ḥawlhā. Ibb: Manshūrāt Jāmi‘at Ibb, pp. 200-215.

al-Aṣbaḥī, Aḥmad Muḥammad
2004 al-Madrasa al-Ashrafīya bi-Ta‘izz zaman al-dawla al-rasūlīya fī al-Yaman (dirāsa mi‘mārīya taḥlīlīya) (626-858 H/1228-1454 M). Ṣan‘ā’: Wizārat al-Thaqāfa wa-al-Siyāḥa.

Barban, Luisa, Paolo Bensi, Paolo Mariani, Maurizio Merlo, Renzo Ravagnan &Abdulhakim Al-Sayaghi
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Instituto Veneto per I Beni Culturali
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al-Muṭayrī, Muḥammad b. Nūḥ
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Porter, Venetia
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Sadek, Noha
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Ventrone Vassallo, G.
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Astronomy and Astrology

al-‘Abbādī, ‘Abd Allāh Qā’id Ḥasan
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al-Ahjurī, ‘Abd al-Ghānī ‘Alī
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al-Ḥibshī, ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad
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King, David A.
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1990 A Survey of Medieval Islamic Shadow Schemes for Simple Time-reckoning. Oriens 32:738-82.
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1986 Islamic Mathematical Astronomy. London: Variorum Reprints.
1985 The Medieval Yemeni Astrolabe in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabische-Islamischen Wissenschaften 2:99-122.
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Schmidl, Petra
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Ayyubid Yemen

‘Abduwalī, Jamāl
2015 al-Yaman fī al-‘aṣr al-Ayūbī (569-629H/1174-1230M). Tunis: Markaz al-Nashr al-Jāmi‘ī Tūnis.

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Aḥmad, ‘Alī b. ‘Alī
2002 al-Nashāṭ al-tijārī fī al-Yaman mundhu maṭla‘ al-qarn al-thālith al-hijrī ḥatā nihāyat al-‘asr al-Ayyūbī. Ph. D. Thesis, Jāmi‘at Umm al-Qurra, Mecca.

Aḥmad, Muḥammad ‘Abd al-‘Āl
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Aḥmad, Muḥammad Ḥilmy Muḥammad
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Ḥammād, Usama Aḥmad
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Hudayl, Ṭaha Ḥusayn
2012 al-Mawqif al-qabalī min al-wujūd al-Ayyūbī fī al-Ḥaḍramawt. Majallat Jāmi‘at ‘Adan al-Iliktrūniyya 1:121-137.
2011 Aswāq madīnat ‘Adan fī ‘aṣr al-dawlatayn al-Ayyubiyya wa-al-Rasūliyya wa-ta’thīrhā al-ijtimā‘ī wa-al-tirafihī. Nadwat ‘Adan bawābat al-Yaman al-Ḥaḍāriyya. Aden: Jami‘at Aden.

Ḥusayn, Jamīl
1985 al-Ḥijāz wa-al-Yaman fī al-‘aṣr al-Ayyūbī. Jedda: Tihāma li-al-Nashr.

Maḥmūd, Ḥasan Sulaymān
1969 Ta’rīkh al-Yaman al-siyāsī fī al-‘aṣr al-Islāmī. Baghdad: Maṭba‘at Dār al-Jāhiẓ. [Ayyubids, pp. 245-254] Online at http://dlib.nyu.edu/aco/book/columbia_aco001136/263

al-Mikhlāfī, ‘Abd Allāh Ḥātim Khālid
2009 al-Ayyūbiyūn fī al-Yaman 569-626 h 1173-1229 M. Ph.D. Thesis, History, University of Damascus.

Miles, G. C.
1939 The Ayyūbid Dynasty of the Yaman and their Coinage, Numismatic Chronicle 5:62-97.

Rabie, Hassanein M.
1979 Al-Baḥr al-Aḥmar fī al-‘Aṣr al-Ayyūbī. In Al-Baḥr al-Aḥmar fī al-Tārīkh wa-al-Siyāsah al-Duwalīyah al-Mu‘āṣirah, 105-123. Cairo.

Regourd, Anne
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al-Shu‘aybī, ‘Abd al-Fattāḥ Qāsim Nāsr Yaḥyā
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Smith, G. REx
2000 TŪRANSHĀH B. AYYŪB. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., 10:673. Leiden: Brill.
1969 The Ayyubids and Rasulids – the Transfer of Power in 7th/13th Century Yemen. Islamic Culture 43:175-88.
1968 Kitāb al-Simṭ al-Ghālī – a source work for the Ayyūbid conquest of the Yemen, etc. Journal of the University College, Durban 1(3):33-37.

al-Zaydī, Maṣ‘ab Ḥamādī Najm
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al-Ḥamīdī, Yūsuf b. ‘Abd al-‘Azīz
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Heiss, Johann
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1992 Nashr al-maḥāsin al-Yamānīya fī khaṣā’iṣ al-Yaman wa-al-nasab al-Qaḥṭānīya. Damascus: Dār al-Fikr.
1983 al-Faṣl al-mazīd ‘alā bughyat al-mustafīd fī akhbār madīnat Zabīd. Editor, Joseph Chelhod. Ṣan‘ā': Markaz al-Dirāsāt wa-al-Buḥūth al-Yamanī.
1979 Bughyat al-mustafīd fī ta’rīkh madīnat Zabīd. Editor, ‘Abd Allāh al-Ḥibshī. Ṣan‘ā’: Markaz al-Dirāsāt al-Yamanīya. [Based on two manuscript copies.]
1977 Qurrat al-‘uyūn bi-akhbār al-Yaman al-maymūn. Editor, Muḥammad al-Akwa‘. Cairo: Maṭba‘at al-Sa‘āda. Two volumes.

al-Janadī, Abū ‘Abd Allāh Bahā' al-Dīn Muḥammad (died 732/1331)
1994 Ṭabaqāt ṣuliḥā’ al-Yaman. Edited by ’Abd Allāh al-Ḥibshī. Ṣan‘ā’: Maktaba al-Irshād.
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Jāzim, Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Raḥīm
1996-97 Nūr al-Dīn et al-Muẓaffar: La construction de l’état rasoulide au Yémen. Chroniques yéménites 4-5:68-91.

al-Khazrajī, Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī ibn al-Ḥasan (died 812/1410)
2008-2009 al-‘Aqd al-fākhir al-ḥasan fī ṭabaqāt akābir ahl al-Yaman, edited by ‘Abd Allāh b. Qā’id al-‘Abādi, et al. Ṣan‘ā’: Al-Jīl al-Jadīd, 2008-09.
2009 al-‘Uqūd al-lu’lu’īya fī ta’rīkh al-dawla al-Rasūlīya. Ed. ‘Abd Allāh al-Ḥibshī. Ṣan‘ā’: Maktabat al-Irshād, 2009.
1983 al-‘Uqūd al-lu’lu’īya fī ta’rīkh al-dawla al-Rasūlīya, edited by Muhammad ‘Alī al-Akwa‘. Ṣan‘ā': Markaz al-Dirāsāt wa-al-Buḥūth al-Yamani, 1983.
1981 al-‘Asjad al-masbūq fīman waliya al-Yaman min al-mulūk. Y.A.R.: Ministry of Information and Culture, Publication Project 1/2. (facsimile edition)
1906-1918 al-‘Uqūd al-lu’lu’ya fī ta’rīkh al-dawla al-Rasūlīya. The Pearl Strings; A History of the Resūliyy Dynasty of Yemen. London: Luzac and Co. (Editor and translator: J.W. Redhouse; five volumes).

Mahoney, Daniel
2022 Obituaries in Service of the Rasūlid Sultanate in Yemen at the Turn of the 9th/15th Century. Medieval Worlds: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Studies 15:175-194. Online at https://medievalworlds.net/0xc1aa5576_0x003d788f.pdf
2021 Evolving Rasūlid Narratives of Opposition to Sultan al-Manṣūr Nūr al-Dīn ‘Umar (d. 647/1250) in Yemen, Der Islam 98(1):153-174.
2018 Writing the Ethnic Origins of the Rasulids in Late Medieval South Arabia. The Medieval History Journal 21(2):1-20.

al-Malik al-Afḍal al-‘Abbās
2004 al-‘Aṭāyā al-saniyya wa-al-mawāhib al-haniyya fī al-manāqib al-Yamaniyya. Edited by Abd al-Wāhid al-Khāmirī.Ṣan‘ā’.

al-Malik al-Ashraf ‘Umar
1985 Ṭurfat al-aṣḥāb fī ma‘rifat al-ansāb. Beirut: Manshūrāt al-Madīna.

al-Marānī, Ḥasan Ṣāliḥ Nājī
2009 al-Ḥayāt al-‘ilmīya fī madīnat Ṣan‘ā' khilāl al-qarnayn al-sābi‘ wa-al-thāmin al-hijriyīn al-thālith ‘ashar wa-al-rābi‘ ‘ashar al-mīlādīyīn. Ph.D. Thesis, Jāmi‘at Ṣan‘ā'.

Matsumoto, Hiroshi
1994 The History of ‘Uzlah and Mikhlāf in North Yemen. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 175-182.

Puin, Gerd Rüdiger
2012 Ein Buch aus Kette und Schuss, ‘Unwān al-Šaraf von Ibn alMuqriʾ. In Andreas Merl, Gerd Rüdiger Puin & Oliver Siebisch (eds), Zwischen Sanaa und Saarbrücken, 149-177. Saarbrücke: Universaar.

al-Sakhāwī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (d. 902/1497)
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al-Shamīrī, ‘Abd al-Walī.
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van Arendonk, Cornelis
1968 IBN AL-DAYBA‘. The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed. 3:746a–b. Leiden: Brill.

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al-Wuṣābī, Wajīh al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad (d. 782/1380)
1979 Ta’rīkh Waṣāb al-‘Itibār fī al-tawārīkh wa-al-āthār. Edited by ‘Abd Allāh al-Ḥibshī. Ṣan‘ā’: Markaz al-Dirāsāt al-Yamānīya.

Zabāra, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad
1952 A'immat al-Yaman. Ta‘izz: Maṭba‘at al-Naṣr al-Naṣirīya.

Coins

Balafier, M.
1994 Trésors et collections de monnaies islamiques des musées du Yémen. Ph. D. dissertation, Université Paris Iv. 3 volumes.

Balog, Paul
1980 The Coinage of the Ayyubids. Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication, no. 12. London: Royal Numismatic Society.
1960 Dinārs of al-Mu‘aẓẓam Shams al-Dīn Turānshāh, and al-‘Azīz Ṭughtakīn, Ayyubid Princes of the Yemen", American Numismatic Society Museum Notes 9:237-241.
1953-54 Dirhems ayoubites inédits du Yēmen. Bulletin de l’Institut Egyptien, 347-55.

Bates, Michael L.
1998 A Guide to the Bibliography of Yemeni Coinage. Yemen Update 40:14-16. Online at http://www.aiys.org/no-40-1998/101-a-guide-to-the-bibliography-of-yemeni-coinage.html
1975 Yemen and its Conquest by the Ayyubids of Egypt (AD 1137-1202). Ph. D. dissertation, University of Chicago.

Casanova, P.
1894 Dinars inédits du Yémen. Revue Numismatique, 200-220.

Darley-Doran, Robert E.
1989 Examples of Islamic coinage from Yemen. In Werner Daum, editor, Yemen. 3000 Years of Art and Civilisation, 182-203. Innsbruck: Pinguin-Verlag.

D’Ottone, Ariana
2020 The Mints of Taʿizz and Thaʿbat in Rasulid times: Literary Sources and Numismatic Evidence, Rivista Italiana di Numismatica e Scienze Affini 121:171-225.
2015 The Mint of Ta‘izz in Rasulid Times. In L. Capo and A. Ciaralli, editors, Per ricordare Enzo. Studi in memoria di Vincenzo Matera, 91-103. Florence: Florence University Press, 2015 (Reti Medievali E-Book 25)

Fāri‘, Fayṣal Sa‘īd
2012 Ta‘izz: Dirāsa fī farādat al-makān wa-‘aẓamat al-ta'rīkh. Ta‘izz: Mu'assasat al-Sa‘īd li-al-‘Ulūm wa-al-Thaqāfa, pp. 237-259.

Haider, Najaf
2011 Coinage and the Silver Crisis. In Irfan Habib, editor, Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500, 149-162. New Delhi: Pearson Longman.
2007 The Network of Monetary Exchange in the Indian Ocean Trade 1200-1700. In Himanshu Prabha Ray and Edward Alpers, editors, Cross Currents and Community Networks: The History of the Indian Ocean World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Heidemann, Stefan
2004 Jemenitische Münzen in Jena: Zur Erforschung der jemenitischen Münzprägung. Jemen-Report 35(2):4-6.

Lachman, Samuel
1985 The Use of Mameluk Coins in the Zaydi Yemen in the Late 9th/15th Century," Spink's Numismatic Circular 93:330-331

Lowick, N. M.
1983 The Mansûrî and the Mahdawî Dirham: Two Additions to Sauvaire's 'Matèriaux'. Numismatic Chronicle 143:121-38. [Covers the issues of the Rassid Imams in Sa‘da, Dhafār, and other places in northern Yemen, 601-704 (1204-1305)].

Miles, G. C.
1939 The Ayyūbid Dynasty of the Yaman and their Coinage, Numismatic Chronicle 5:62-97.

Nützel, H.
1987 Coins of the Rasulids Comprising a Synopsis of the History of that Yemenite Dynasty. Mainz: Donata Kinzelbach, 1987. Reprint of 1891 edition.
1892 Münzen der Rasuliden nebst einem Abriss der Geschichte dieser jemenischen Dynastie, Zeitschrift für Numismatik 18:81-156.
1891 Münzen der Rasuliden nebst einem Abriss der Geschichte dieser jemenischen Dynastie. Berlin: W. Pormetter.

Porter, Venetia
1996 Coins and Money during the Tahirid Period. New Arabian Studies 3:112-118.
1995 A Recent Acquisition of Coins of the Tahirid Sultans of the Yemen. Yarmuk Numismatics 7:21-28.
1990 The Rasulid Sultan al-Malik al-Manṣūr and the Mint of Mabyan. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 1:38-45.

Prideaux, W. F.
1883 Coins of the Benee Rasool Dynasty of South Arabia. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bombay 16:8-16.

Rambach, Arianna D'Ottone
2020 My Encounter with Arabic Numismatics and Some New Thoughts on Rasulid Coins. The British-Yemeni Society Journal 28:13-19.

Smith, G. Rex
1990 Some Medieval Yemenite Numismatic Problems. Observations on some Recently Sold Coins. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 1:29-37.

Stern, S. M.
1949 Some Unrecognized Dirhams of the Zaidîs of the Yemen," Numismatic Chronicle ser. 6, 9 (1949), 180-88. [Much revised by Lowick's (1983).]

al-Ṭamīḥī, Fayiṣ ‘Alī
1418-1419 AH Maskūkāt Banī Rasūl al-fiḍīya al-maḥfūẓa fī mu'assasat al-naqd al-‘Arabī al-Sa‘ūdī. M. A. thesis, Jāmi‘at al-Malik Sa‘ūd, Saudi Arabia.

al-Zayla'ī, Aḥmad.
1993 Dirāhim Rasūliyya Muẓaffariyya nuqisha ‘alayhā ism al-khalīfa al Mu’ta'sim bilāh ba‘d wa-fātihi: dirāsa fī maghzāhā al-siyāsī wa-tiraz sikkihā. Yarmouk Numismatics 5:29-59.

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