Rasulid Yemen Resources

Bibliography by Topic

"Crafts" through "Medicine, Health"

Crafts

Gacek, A.
2002 On the Making of Local Paper: A Thirteenth Century Yemeni Recipe. Revue du monde musulman et de la Méditerranée 99-100:79-93. Online at http://remmm.revues.org/1175.
1997 Instructions on the Art of Bookbinding attributed to die Rasulid Ruler of Yemen al-Malik al-Muzaffar. In F. Déroche and F. Richard (editors), Scribes et manuscrits du Moyen-Orient, 57-63. Paris: BNF.

Jāzim, Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Raḥīm
2020 al-Ḥaṣād al-mubakkir. Ṣan‘ā': American Institute for Yemeni Studies.
1998-99 L’artisanat et ses produits dans la ville de Sanaa aux débuts de la dynastie des Banû Rasûl (690-695/1290-1295). Chroniques yéménites 6-7:11-14.
1992 Dirāsa fī turāth al-mansūjāt wa-al-malābis fī al-Yaman. al-Iklīl 13(22):116-136.
1991 al-Dibāhga al-taqlīdiyya fī-al-Yaman. al-Ma’thūrāt al-Sha‘biyya 23:41-53.

Keall, Edward J.
1993 One Man's Mede is another Man's Persian: One Man's Coconut is another Man's Grenade. Muqarnas 10:275-85.
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.

Kenney, Ellen
2021 Treasuring Yemen: Notes on Exchange and Collection in Rasūlid Material Culture. Der Islam 98(1):27-68.

Lambourn, Elizabeth
2014 Borrowed Words in an Ocean of Objects: Geniza Sources and New Cultural Histories of the Indian Ocean. In Kesavan Veluthat and Donald R. Davis, Jr., editors, Irreverent History: Essays for M.G.S. Narayanan, New Delhi: Primus Books.

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.

Mason, R. B. and E. J. Keall
1988 Provenance of Local Ceramic Industry and the Characterization of Imports: Petrography of Pottery from Medieval Yemen. Antiquity 62:452-63.

Porter, Venetia
1998 Enamelled Glass Made for the Rasulid Sultans of the Yemen. In Rachel Wood, editor, Gilded and Enamelled Glass from the Middle East, 197-199. London: British Museum Press.
1989 The Art of the Rasulids. In Werner Daum, editor, Yemen. 3000 Years of Art and Civilisation, 232-53. Innsbruck: Pinguin-Verlag.

Sadek, Noha
2023 Engraved Property: The Titles and Names of Rasulid Women on Ayyubid and Mamluk Metalwork. Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World  4: 97–117.
2011 Red Rosettes: Colors of Power and Piety in Rasulid Yemen. In Jonathan M. Bloom and Sheila S. Blair, editors, And Diverse Are Their Hues: Color in Islamic Art and Culture, 225-243. New Haven: Yale University Press.
1997 Notes on the Rasulid Historian al-Hazraǧī’s Career as a Craftsman. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 27:231-234.

Serjeant, R. B.
1951 Islamic Textiles. Ars Islamica 15-16.
1940 History of Islamic Textiles up to the Mongol Conquest. Ph.D. thesis, Cambridge University.

Ward, Rachel
2016 Mean or Green? Mamluk Vessels Recycled for the Rasulid Sultans. In Art, Trade, and Culture in the Islamic World and Beyond: from the Fatimids to the Mughals; Studies Presented to Doris Behrens-Abouseif, 36-49. Eds. Alison Ohta, J. M. Rogers, and Rosalind Wade Haddon. London: Gingko

Food

Baba, Tamon
2017 Ingredients of the Court, Networks and Sovereignty: The Rasūlids during the 13th Century. Fukuoka: Kyushu University Press, 320 p [in Japanese].
2014 The Redistribution of Foodstuffs by the Rasūlid Dynasty and its State Sovereignty during the 13th Century. The Journal of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko 96(1): 1-26.
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].
 

Geography

al-Akwa‘, Ismā‘īl ibn ‘Alī
2009 Makhālīf al-Yaman. Ṣan‘ā': Maktabat al-Jīl al-Jadīd.
1996 Les hijra et les forteresses du savoir au Yémen. Translated by B. Marino. Ṣan‘ā’: CFEY.
1994 al-Buldān al-Yamānīya ‘inda Yāqūt al-Hamūwī.Ṣan‘ā': Maktabat al-Jīl al-Jadīd.
1400/1980 al-Madāris al-islāmīya fī al-Yaman. Damascus: Dār al-Fikr. (Manshūrāt Jāmi‘at Ṣan‘ā', number 1).

Ducène, Jean-Charles
2013 Les Tables Géographiques du Manuscrit du Sultan Rasulide al-Malik al-Afdal. Jyväskylä: Académie Finlandaise des Sciences et des Lettres, Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae. Humaniora, 365
2011 Les tables géographiques du manuscrit d'al-Malik al-Afḍal (1377). Chroniques du Manuscrit au Yémen 11. Online at https://journals.openedition.org/cmy/1906

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. [for Ta‘izz area]

al-Ḥaddād, ‘Abd Allāh ‘Abd al-Salām
1999 Madīnat Ḥays al-Yamanīya: ta'rikhhā wa-āthārhā al-dīnīya. Cairo: Dār al-Āfāq al-‘Arabīya.

al-Ḥajrī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad
1404/1984 Majmū‘ buldān al-Yaman wa-qabā'ilhā. Ṣan‘ā': Y. A. R. Ministry of Information and Culture. (Publication Project, 1/16; Editor: Ismā‘īl al-Akwa‘; two volumes).

Jāzim, Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Raḥīm
2020 al-Ḥaṣād al-mubakkir. Ṣan‘ā': American Institute for Yemeni Studies.

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.

al-Maqḥafī, Ibrāhīm Aḥmad
1985 Mu‘jam al-mudun wa-al-qabā'il al-Yamanīya. Ṣan‘ā': Dār al-Kalima.

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

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.

Wilson, Robert
1980 The Investigation, Collection and Evaluation of Geographic Material in Yemeni Texts for the Mapping of Historical North-West Yemen. Ph. D. dissertation, Cambridge University, Downing College, Cambridge.

Governance

Abū al-Khuyūr, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥusayn
1329/30 AH al-Nuẓum al-mālīya fī ‘aṣr al-dalwa al-Rasūlīya (626-808 AH/1229-1454 CE). Ph.D. Thesis, Kullīya al-Shari‘a wa-al-Dirāsāt al-Islāmīya, Umm al-Qura University.

‘Alyān, Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Fattāḥ
1973 al-Ḥayāt al-siyāsīya wa-maẓāhir al-ḥaḍāra fī ‘ahd Banī Rasūl. Ph.D. thesis, Kullīya al-Ādāb, Cairo University.

al-‘Amrī, ‘Alī ibn Ṣāliḥ
1431 AH Qaḍāt al-dawla al-Rasūlīya wa-dūrhum fī al-ḥayāt al-‘āma (626-808 A.H./ 1228-1454 CE). M.A. Thesis, History, King Khalid University.

al-‘Arāshi, ‘Abd al-Ḥakīm Muḥammad
2014 al-Tajriba al-ta’rīkhīya li-niẓām al-idāra al-waqfīya fī al-Yaman fī ‘aṣr al-dawla al-Rasūlīya (626-858 AH/1228-1454 CE.) min waḥī al-waqfīyāt al-Ghasānīya. Majalla al-Dirasāt al-‘Ijtimā‘īya 41:55-94.

al-Ḥāsib al-Maṣrī, Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad b. ‘Alī.
2010 al-Kitāb al-Ẓāhirī: Ta’rīkh al-dawla al-Rasūlīya bi al-Yaman. Beirut: Dār al-Ḥazim.

Jāzim, Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Raḥīm, editor
2008 Irtifā‘ al-dawla al-Mu’ayyadīya. Ṣan‘ā’: Al-Ma‘had al-Fransī li-al-Āthār wa al-‘Ulūm al-Ijtimā‘īya bi-Ṣan‘ā’ and al-Ma‘had al-Almānī li-al-Āthār.
2003-05. Nūr al-ma‘ārif fī nuẓum wa-qawānīn al-Yaman fī al-‘ahd al-Muẓaffarī al-wārif. Two volumes. Ṣan‘ā’: Al-Ma‘had al-Fransī li-al-Āthār wa al-‘Ulūm al-Ijtimā‘īya bi-Ṣan‘ā’.

Mahoney, Daniel
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.

al-Malik al-Afḍal al-‘Abbās
1985 Nuzhat al-ẓurafā' wa-tuḥfat al-khulafā'. Edited by Nabīla ‘Abd al-Mun‘im Dāwūd. Beirut: Dār al-Kitāb al-‘Arabī.

al-Mawṣilī, Mūsā b. Ḥasan
1990 Al-Burd al-mawshā fī ṣinā‘at al-inshā. Ed. ‘Afāf Sayyid Ṣabra. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyya.

Sa‘īd, Muḥammad
2011-2012 Ṣūrat al-sulṭān fī al-kitābāt al-duʿāʾīyah al-rasūlīyah: al-sulṭān al-Afḍal ʿAbbās ibn ʿAlī namūdhajān. Ḥawlīyat
al-Tārīkh al-Islāmī wa al-Wasīṭ 7: 236–274.

Smith, G. Rex
2006a A Medieval Administrative and Fiscal Treatise from the Yemen: the Rasulid Mulakhkhaṣ al-fitan by al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayni. Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement 20. Oxford.
2005 The Rasulid Administration in ninth/fifteenth century Yemen – Some government departments and officials. Studia Semitica: The Journal of Semitic Studies Jubilee Volume, edited by Philip S. Alexander et al. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Traini, Renato
2006 Uno "Specchio per prìncipi" del Sultano Rasūlide al-Malik al-Afḍal. In Proceedings of Storia e Cultura dello Yemen in Età Islamica, 133-160. Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
2005 Uno “Speccio per Principi” Yemenita: La Nuzhat aẓ-ẓurafā’ wa Tuḥfat al-khulafā’ del Sultano Rasūlide al-Malik al-Afḍal (m. 778/1377). Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Classe di Scienze Morali, Storiche et Filologiche, Memorie, Series IX, Volume XIX, Fascicolo 2.

Vallet, Éric
2019 Diplomatic Networks of Rasulid Yemen in Egypt (Seventh/Thirteenth to Early Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries). In Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies, 581-604. Eds. Frédéric Bauden and Malika Dekkiche. Leiden: Brill.
2015 Les messagers du grand large. Ambassades et ambassadeurs entre mer Rouge et océan Indien (VIIIe-XVe siècle) », in La figure de l’ambassadeur entre mondes éloignés. Ambassadeurs, envoyés officiels et représentations diplomatiques entre Orient islamique, Occident latin et Orient chrétien (XIe-XVIe siècle), N. Drocourt (dir.), 111-150. Presses Universitaires de Rennes.
2012 Des ‘sultans-secrétaires’? Pratique de l’archive et savoirs encyclopédiques dans l’État rasūlide (VIIe-IXe/XIIIe-XVe siècle). Annales Islamologiques, 46:229-254.
2009 Al‑Burd al‑muwashshâ fî sinâ‘at al‑inshâ’de Mûsâ b. al‑Hasan al‑Mawsilî (m. 699/1300): Un manuel épistolaire de la période rasûlide. Chroniques du Manuscrit au Yémen 8. Online at https://journals.openedition.org/cmy/1884
2007 La vigne et le palmier. Identités provinciales et construction de l’État sous le sultanat rasûlide (xiiie-xve siècle). Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée 121-122:53-67.

Varisco, Daniel Martin
2021 Reading Rasūlid Maps: An Early 14th-Century Geographical Resource, Der Islam 98(1):100-152.

Ḥaḍramawt

‘Abd al-Nūr, Muḥammad
2014 Ṣalāt Ta‘izz al-siyāsīya wa-al-‘ilmīya bi-mudun Ḥaḍramawt fī al-‘aṣr al-Rasūlī (626-808 AH/1229-1453 CE) Majallat al-Andalūs li-al-‘Ulūm al-Insānīya wa-al-‘Ijtimā‘īya 8(3):309-331.

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.

Shanbal, Aḥmad b. ‘Abd Allāh (d. 920/1514)
1994 Ta’rīkh Ḥaḍramawt. Ed. ‘Abd Allāh al-Ḥibshī. Ṣan‘ā’: Maktabat Ṣan‘ā’ al-Atharīya.

Smith, G. Rex
1985 Ibn al-Mujāwir on Dhofar and Socotra. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 15:79-92.

Vallet, Éric
2015 Sharma et l’essor du commerce islamique dans l’océan Indien occidental (xe-xiie siècle). In Un entrepôt de commerce médiéval sur la côte du Ḥaḍramawt (Yémen, CA 980-1180), 467-478. Ed. Axelle Rougeulle. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.

Varisco, Daniel Martin
2021 Reading Rasūlid Maps: An Early 14th-Century Geographical Resource, Der Islam 98(1):100-152.

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.

History (Primary Sources)

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]

al-Ahdal, al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (died 855/1451)
1986 Tuḥfat al-zaman fī ta'rīkh al-Yaman. Beirut: Manshūrāt al-Madīna. See also Löfgren 1936

al-Ḥamzī, ‘Imād al-dīn ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Abd Allāh (d. 714/1314)
1992 Ta’rīkh al-Yaman min Kitāb Kunz al-akhyār fī ma‘rifat al-siyar wa-al-akhbār. Edited by ‘Abd al-Muḥsin Mad‘aj al-Mad‘aj. Kuwait: Mu’assasat al-shirā‘ al-‘Arabī.

al-Ḥibshī, ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad, Editor
1405/1984 Ta'rīkh al-dawla al-Rasūliya fī al-Yaman. Damascus: Maṭba‘at al-Kātib al-‘Arabī. [General history of the Rasulid era in Yemen with information on virtually all aspects, especially poetry and schools founded by the sultans. No list of references is provided.]

Ibn al-Dayba‘, ‘Abd al-Raḥman ibn ‘Alī (died 944/1537)
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.]

Ibn Ḥātim
1978 The Ayyubids and Early Rasulids in the Yemen (567/694/1173-1295). Edited by G. Rex Smith. London: Luzac. (two volumes).

al-Janadī, Abū ‘Abd Allāh Bahā' al-Dīn Muḥammad (died 732/1331)
1403/1983-1409/1989 al-Sulūk fī ṭabaqāt al-‘ulamā' wa-al-mulūk. Ṣan‘ā': Y. A. R., Ministry of Information and Culture, Publication Project, 1/12; two volumes.

Jāzim, Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Raḥīm
2020 al-Ḥaṣād al-mubakkir. Ṣan‘ā': American Institute for Yemeni Studies. [includes several critical editions of Rasulid texts.]

Johannsen, C. T.
1828 Historia Jemenae. Bonn. [Translation of Ibn al-Dayba‘, Bughyat al-mustafīd]

Kay, Henry C.
1892 Yaman. It's Early Mediaeval History. London: Edward Arnold. [Selections translated from ‘Umāra, Ibn Khaldūn, al-Janadī]

al-Khazrajī, Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī ibn al-Ḥasan (died 812/1410)
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).

Löfgren, Oscar, editor
1936 Arabische Texte zur Kenntnis der Stadt Aden im Mittelalter. Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells. [Selections from Abū Makhrama, al-Janadī, Ibn al-Mujāwir and al-Ahdal; reprinted 1986 in Beirut by Sharika Dār al-Tanwīr li-al-Ṭibā‘a wa-al-Nashr]

Lyall, Charles J.
1919 Review of al-‘Uqūd al-Lu’lu’īyah. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 423-27.

Tāj al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Baqī ibn ‘Abd al-Majīd (died 733/1333)
1965 Ta'rīkh al-Yaman al-musammā bi-ḥajat al-zaman fī ta'rīkh al-Yaman. Cairo: Maṭba‘at Mukhaymir. (Editor: Muṣṭafā Ḥijāzī).
1985 Ta'rīkh al-Yaman al-musammā bi-ḥajat al-zaman fī ta'rīkh al-Yaman. Ṣan‘ā': Dār al-Kalima. (second edition).

Varisco, Daniel Martin and G. Rex Smith, editors
2008 The Manuscript of al-Malik al-Afḍal al--‘Abbās b. ‘Alī b. Dā’ūd b. Yūsuf b. ‘Umar b. ‘Alī ibn Rasūl: A Medieval Arabic Anthology from the Yemen. Gibb Memorial Trust. Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd.

al-Waṣābī, 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.

Waṭyūṭ, al-Ḥusayn b. Ismā‘īl (d. 821/1418)
2019 Ta'rīkh Waṭyūṭ, edited by Ṭaḥa Ḥusayn ‘Awaḍ Hudayl and Shīrīn Shaḥta Ibrāhīm al-Māẓ. Aden: Markaz ‘Adan li-al-Dirāsāt wa-al-Buḥūth al-ta'rīkhiyya wa-al-Nashr,

Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥusayn
1968 Ghāyat al-amānī fī akhbār al-quṭr al-Yamānī. Eds. Sa‘īd ‘Abd al-Fattāḥ ‘Āshūr and Muḥammad Muṣṭafā Ziyāda. Cairo: Dār al-Kātib al-‘Arabī li-al-Ṭibā‘a wa-al-Nashr.

Yajima, Hikoichi
1976 A Chronicle of the Rasulid Dynasty of Yemen. Tokyo. (cf. al-Ḥibshī, editor, 1984). [edition of Paris ms., anonymous history completed in 841/1437-8]

History (Secondary Sources)

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

al-Ahjurī, ‘Abd al-Ghānī ‘Alī
2013 Al-Dawla al-Rasūlīya dawla Turkumānīya Saljūqīya wa-faḍā’ilhā ‘alā al-Yaman tanẓīmān wa-‘ilmān wa-‘amrānān. Majallat al-Andalūs li-al-‘ulūm al-ijtimā‘iüa wa-al-taṭbīqīya 9:319-354.

Aḥmad, Muḥammad ‘Abd al-‘Āl
1980 al-Ayyūbiyūn fī al-Yaman. Alexandria: al-Ha’ya al-Maṣrīya al-‘Āma li-al-Kitāb.
1979 Banū Rasūl wa-Banū Ṭāhir wa-‘alāqāt al-Yaman al-khārijiyya fī ‘ahdhumā. Alexandria: Dār al-Ma‘arifa al-Jāmi‘īya.
1967 A Study of Historians’ ReportsCconcerning theRreasons for the AyyūbidCconquest of the Yemen. Majallat Ma‘had al-Makhṭūṭāt al-‘Arabiyya 13(2):319-38.

Aḥmad, Muḥammad Ḥilmy Muḥammad
1962 Some Notes on Arabic Historiography during the Zengid and Ayyūbid Periods (521-648/1127-1250). In Historians of the Middle East, B. Lewis and P. M. Holt, eds., 79-97. London.

al-Aḥmarī, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān b. ‘Abd Allāh
2000 Tadwīn al-ta'rīkh al-maḥallī li-al-Yaman khilāl al-qarn al-thāmin al-hijrī. M.A. thesis. Jāmi‘at al-Imām Muḥammad b. Sa‘ūd al-Islāmīya.

al-Akwa‘, Ismā‘īl ibn ‘Alī
2004 al-Dawla al-Rasūlīya fī al-Yaman 626-858 H/1228-1454 M. Ṣan‘ā’: Wizārat al-Thaqāfa wa-al-Siyāḥa.

al-Akwa‘, Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī
1391/1971 al-Yaman al-khaḍrā' mahd al-haḍāra. Cairo: Maṭba‘at al-Sa‘āda.

‘Alyān, Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Fattāḥ
1973 al-Ḥayāt al-siyāsīya wa-maẓāhir al-ḥaḍāra fī ‘ahd Banī Rasūl. Ph.D. thesis, Kullīya al-Ādāb, Cairo University.

al-‘Aqīlī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ‘Īsā
1378/1958 Min ta'rīkh al-Mikhlāf al-Sulaymānī. Riyadh: Maṭābi‘ Riyāḍ.

al-‘Arāshi, ‘Abd al-Ḥakīm Muḥammad
2006 al-Dawla al-Rasūlīya fī ‘ahd al-sulṭān al-Muẓaffar al-Awwal Yūsuf ibn ‘Umar (647-694 AH). M.A. Thesis, History, Aden University.

‘Asīrī, Muḥammad ‘Alī,
1406/1985 Abū al-Ḥasan al-Khazrajī wa-Mu'allafātuhu al-Tārīkhiyya. Ph.D., Imām Muḥammad b. Sa‘ūd University.

Barakāt, ‘Alī ‘Abd al-Karīm
2010 al-Ṣilāt al-ḥaḍārīya wa-al-fikrīya bayn al-Yaman wa-bilād al-Islāmīya (626-858 H/1229-1454 M): Miṣr wa-al-Ḥijāz anmūdhjān-dirāsa ta'rikhīya. Ph. D. Thesis, Jāmi‘at Ṣan‘ā'.
2006 al-Kitāba al-ta'rīkhīya wa-al-mu'arikhūn fī al-Yaman fī ‘ahd al-dawla al-Rasūlīya (626-858/1229-1454: al-Janadī wa-al-Khazrajī. M.A. thesis, Jāmi‘at ‘Adan.

Bates, Michael L.
1975 Yemen and its Conquest by the Ayyubids of Egypt (AD 1137-1202). Ph. D. dissertation, University of Chicago.

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris
2016 Practising Diplomacy in the Mamluk Sultanate: Gifts and Material Culture in the Medieval Islamic World. London: I. B. Tauris. [See pp. 37-45.]

D’Ottone, Ariana
2007 Histoire et culture du Yémen à l’époque islamique, avec une référence particulière à la période rasoulide. Chroniques yéménites 14:246-250. Online at http://cy.revues.org/1494.

al-Fayfī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad
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Stookey, Robert
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al-Subay‘ī, Faraj Muḥammad
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Varisco, Daniel Martin
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Islam [See also Zaydi Islam]

Aḥmad, ‘Alī b. ‘Alī
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al-Akwa‘, Ismā‘īl ibn ‘Alī
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Ansari, Hassan and Sabine Schmidtke
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Ghālib, Muḥammad Luṭf
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al-Ḥaddād, ‘Abd Allāh ‘Abd al-Salām
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Al-Ḥibshī, ‘Abd Allāh
1976 al-Ṣūfīya wa-al-fuqahā’ fī-al-Yaman. Ṣan‘ā’: Maktabat al-Jīl al-Jadīd.

Hudayl, Ṭaha Ḥusayn
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Jāzim, Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Raḥīm
2021 al-Waqfiyya al-Ghassāniyya: ba‘ḍ awqāt madīnat Ta‘izz fī dawlat Banī Rasūl wa-al-fatḥ al-‘Uthmānī al-Awwal li-al-Yaman, Al-Markaz al-Fransī li-al-Abḥāth fī shibh al-jazIra al-‘arabiyya.
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Keall, Edward J. and Ingrid Hehmeyer
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Khaṭīb, Muṣṭafā ‘Abd al-Karīm
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Lambourn, Elizabeth
2008 India from Aden: Khuṭba and Muslim Urban Networks in Late Thirteenth-Century India. In Kenneth R. Hall, editor, Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1400-1800, 55-97. Lanhan: Lexington Books.
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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'.

al-Maysirī, Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh Sa‘īd
2014 al-Zaydiyya fī al-Yaman: Dirāsa fī aḥwālihum al-siyāsiyya wa-al-ḥaḍariyya. (626-858H/1229-1454M). Aden: Dār al-Withāq.
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Muḥammad, Faḍl Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ
2006 al-Ḥayāt al-‘ilmīya fī al-Yaman fī al-qarn al-thāmin al-hijrī/al-rābi‘ ‘ashar al-mīlādī (‘aṣr al-dawla al-Rasūlīya). M.A. Thesis, Jāmi‘at Aden.

al-Muṭayrī, Muḥammad b. Nūḥ
2008 Athar al-masājid fī al-ḥayāt al-‘ilmīya fī al-Yaman fī ‘aṣr al-dawla al-Rasūlīya. M.A. Thesis, Jāmi‘at al-Imām Muḥammad b. Sa‘ūd al-Islāmīya.

Porter, Venetia
1988 Three Rasulid Tombstones from Zafar. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 32-37.

al-Rashīdī, Musā‘ad
1431-32/2010-11 Al-Maktabāt fī al-Yaman khilāl ‘aṣrī al-dawlatayn al-Rasūlīya wa-al-Ṭāhirīya. M.A. Thesis, Islamic History, Jām‘at al-Qaṣīm, Saudi Arabia.

Sa‘īd, Muḥammad
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Sayf al-Dīn, ‘Abd al-Ḥakīm
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Stone, Francine
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al-Sunaydī, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz ibn Rāshid
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Mamluk Relations

al-‘Aynī, Maḥmūd Badr al-Dīn
1987-1989 ‘Iqd al-jumān fī ta'rīkh ahl al-zamān, ed. Muhammad Muhammad Amin. Cairo: al-Hay’a al-Miṣriyya al-‘Amma li-al-Kitāb,

Bauden, Frédéric
2010 Yemeni-Egyptian Diplomatic Exchanges about the Meccan Sharifate: A Reconstructed Rasulid Letter Addressed to al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh in 817/1415. In The Mamluk Sultanate and its Periphery. Frédéric Bauden, ed. Louvain: Peeters, 185-227.

Baybars al-Manṣūrī al-Dawādār, Rukn al-Dīn
1998 Zubdat al-fikr fī ta’rīkh al-hijra. Ed. Donald S. Richards. Berlin: Das arabische Buch, Bibliotheca Islamica, 42, 1998

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris
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Broadbridge, Anne F.
2007 Diplomatic Conventions in the Mamluk Sultanate" Annales Islamologiques 41:97-118.

Goitein, S. D.
1973 Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Goitein, S. D. and M. A. Friedman
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Ibn ‘Abd al-Ẓāhir, Muḥī al-Dīn.
1976 al-Rawḍ al-zāhir fī sīrat al-Malik al-Ẓāhir. Riyadh.

Ibn al-Dawādārī, Abū Bakr ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn Aybak
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Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-‘Umarī (died 749/1349)
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1988 al-Ta‘rīf bi-al-muṣṭaliḥ al-sharīf, edited by Muḥammad Ḥusayn Shams al-Dīn. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyya, 1988.
1984 Maṣalik al-abṣar fi mamālik al-amṣār, edited by Aymān Fu'ād Sayyid. Cairo: Dār al-‘Itiṣām,

Ibn al-Furāt, Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad b. ‘Abd al-Raḥīm.
1936-1942 Ta'rīkh al-duwal wa-al-mulūk, ed. Qusṭanṭīn Zurayq. Beirut: al-Maṭba‘a al-Amrīkānīya,

Ibn Ḥajar al-‘Asqalānī, Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad b. ‘Alī.
1929-1931 al-Durar al-kāmina fī a‘yān al-mi’a al-thāmina. ed. Sayyid Jādd al-Ḥaqq. Hyderabad: Da’irat al-Ma‘ārif al-‘Uthmanīya.

Ibn Iyās, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad
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2009 Kitāb al-‘Ibar wa-dīwān al-mubtada’ wa-al-khabar fī ayyām al-‘arab wa-al-‘ajam wa-al-barbar wa-man ‘asarahum min dhawī al-sulṭān al-akbar. Amman and Riyadh:Bayt al-Afqār al-Dawliyya.
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Kenney, Ellen
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Al-Maqrīzī, Taqī al-Dīn Aḥmad
1998 al-Mawā‘iẓ wa-al-'i‘tibār bi-dhikr al-khiṭaṭ wa-al-athār. Ed. Khalīl al-Manṣūr. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-‘Ilmīya,
1997 al-Sulūk li-ma'rifat duwal al-mulūk. Ed. Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Qādir ‘Aṭā. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-‘Ilmīya, 1997
1845 Histoire des Sultans Mamlouks de l'Égypte. M. Quatremère, tr.. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund, 1845.

Meloy, John.
1998 Mamluk Authority, Meccan Autonomy, and Red Sea Trade, 797–859/1395–1455. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1998.

al-Muqābila, Ḥasan Maḥmūd
2000 al-Rāsūlīyūn wa-al-mamālīk fī al-Hijāz. M.A. thesis, Jāmi‘at al-Yarmūk, Jordan.

al-Nuwayrī, Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad b. ‘Abd al-Wahhāb
2004 Nihāyat al-arab fī funūn al-adab. Ed. Mufīd Qamayḥa. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-‘Ilmīya.

al-Qalqashandī, Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad
1913-1919 Kitāb Ṣubh al-a‘shā fī ṣinā‘at al-inshā’. Cairo: al-Maṭba‘a al-Amīrīya.

Rabie, Hassanein M.
2002 [Les sources de la Geniza et leur intérêt pour l’histoire économique des ports du Hijâz et du Yémen]. Majallat al-Yaman 15:65-95.

Sa‘īd, Muḥammad
2015 Kitāb al-Imām al-Mustakfī Billāh Abī al-Rabīʿ Sulaymān ibn al-Ḥākim Biamr Allāh thānī khulafāʾ al-ʿabbāsiyīn bil-diyār al-miṣrīyah ilā al-Malik al-Muʾayyad Hizabr al-Dīn Dāwūd ibn al-Malik al-Muẓaffar Yūsuf ṣāḥib al-Yaman. In: Buḥūth fī al-ta'rīkh wa-al-jughrafiyyā wa-al-ḥaḍārah: aʻmāl muhdāh ilá al-ustādhayn Munīrah al-Ramādī Shābūṭū wa-ʻAbd Allāh al-Sharīf = Etudes d’histoire, géographie et civilisation: mélanges offerts aux professeurs Mounira Remadi Chapoutot et Abdallah Cherif, ed. Mongi Bourgou. Tunis: Markaz al-Nashr al-Jāmiʻī, 183–224.

Steenbergen, Jo van, editor
2016 Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History of Muslim Leadership and Pilgrimage: al-Ḏahab al-masbūk fī ḏikr man ḥaǧǧa min al-ḫulafāʾ wa-l-mulūk. Leiden: Brill.

Vallet, Éric
2019 Diplomatic Networks of Rasulid Yemen in Egypt (Seventh/Thirteenth to Early Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries). In Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies, 581-604. Eds. Frédéric Bauden and Malika Dekkiche. Leiden: Brill.
2011 Du système mercantile à l’ordre diplomatique : les ambassades entre Egypte mamlūke et Yémen rasūlide (VIIe-IXe/XIIIe-XVe siècle) », Les relations diplomatiques au Moyen .ge. Formes et enjeux. XLIe Congres de la SHMESP, Paris, 269-301.

Varisco, Daniel Martin
2021 The Trials and Tribulations of the Rasulid Sultan al-Malik al-Mujāhid ‘Alī (d. 764/1363). Mamluk Studies Review 24:255-281.

Vermeulen, Urbain, Une lettre du caliphe al-Mustakfī à Dāwud b. Yūsuf b. Rasūl (707 A.H.). In Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, Proceedings of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd International Colloquium, Urbain Vermeulen, and Daniel De Smet, eds., Leuven: Peeters, 1995, pp. 363–371.

Ward, Rachel
2016 Mean or Green? Mamluk Vessels Recycled for the Rasulid Sultans. In Art, Trade, and Culture in the Islamic World and Beyond: from the Fatimids to the Mughals; Studies Presented to Doris Behrens-Abouseif, 36-49. Eds. Alison Ohta, J. M. Rogers, and Rosalind Wade Haddon. London: Gingko.

Manuscripts, Collections and Bibliographies

al-Aḥmarī, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān b. ‘Abd Allāh
2006 Makhṭūṭ al-Malik al-Afḍal al-‘Abbās b. ‘Alī b. Dāwūd b. Yūsuf b. ‘Umar b. ‘Alī b. Rasūl. Majāllat al-Dar‘īya 9(33), Riyadh.

al-‘Amrī, Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh
1980 Maṣādir al-turāth al-Yamanī fī al-matḥaf al-Brīṭānī. Damascus: Dār al-Mukhtār.

al-‘Arūsī, Muḥamad ‘Alī
2010 al-‘Ulamā' al-mulūk fī al-Yaman fī ‘aṣr al-dawla al-Rasūlīya. Majalla Jāmi‘a al-Malik Sa‘ūd 22:45-66.

Baba, Tamon
2015 Publications in Japanese Language on Yemen History and its related Regions mainly based on Manuscripts and Sources from Yemen (1964-2014). Chroniques du Manuscrit au Yémen, 19: 33-56.

Brockelman, Carl
2017 History of the Arabic Written Tradition. Translated by Joep Lameer. 2:198-210. Leiden: Brill. [Translation of original German edition on Yemeni manuscripts.]

Dévényi, Kinga
2020 A Polythematic Work from the Rasūlid Era: The Manuscript of ʿUnwān al-šaraf of Ibn al-Muqriʾ(d. 837/1433) in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Nouvelles Chroníques du Manuscrit au Yemen 11(30):107-130.

D’Ottone, Ariana
2015 The Pearl and the Ruby: Scribal Dicta and Other Metatextual Notes in Yemeni Mediaeval Manuscripts. In D. Hollenberg, Ch. Rauch and S. Schmidtke, editors, The Yemeni Manuscript Tradition, 82-100. Leiden:Brill, 2015.
2014 al-Makhṭūṭāt al-‘arabiyya al-yamaniyya fī-l-qurūn min 6 H/12 M ḥattà 9 H/15 M. Malḥūẓāt kūdīkūlūjiyya. Majallat Ma‘had al-Makhṭūṭāt al-‘Arabiyya 57:209-223. (Translation of D’Ottone (2003).
2013 La bibliothèque d’un savant yéménite du xiiie siècle d’après une note manuscrite autographe. In Christian Müller et Muriel Roiland-Rouabah, editors, Les non-dits du nom Onomastique et documents en terres d’Islam, 67,84. Damascus: Presses de l’ifpo.
2007 Some Remarks on Yemeni Medieval Bookbindings. Arabica 2007. Rome: Università degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza’-Facoltà di Studi Orientali, 42-55 + 6 figs.
2007 Histoire et culture du Yémen à l’époque islamique, avec une référence particulière à la période rasoulide. Chroniques yéménites 14:246-250. Online at http://cy.revues.org/1494.
2007 La reliure arabo-yéménite médiévale: Un projet d’étude. Chroniques du Manuscrit au Yémen 4. Online at https://journals.openedition.org/cmy/1850
2006 I manoscritti arabi dello Yemen. Una ricerca codicologica. Rome:Università degli studi di Roma La Sapienza.
2004 La produzione ed il consumo della carta in Yemen (secoli VI-IX H./A.D. XII-XV): primi risultati di una ricerca quantitativa, Gazette du livre médiéval 44:39-49.
2003 Les manuscrits arabes du Yémen (VIe-IXe/XIIe-XVe siècles): Quelques remarques codicologiques. Chroniques yéménites 11. Online at http://cy.revues.org/169.

Gacek, A.
1997 Instructions on the Art of Bookbinding attributed to die Rasulid Ruler of Yemen al-Malik al-Muzaffar. In F. Déroche and F. Richard (editors), Scribes et manuscrits du Moyen-Orient, 57-63. Paris: BNF.

Heiss, Johann
2021 “To Extol Knowledge”: Celebrating the Completion of Books in Rasulid Yemen. In Fabian Kümmeler, Judit Majorossy and Eirik Hovden, eds. Practicing Community in Urban and Rural Eurasia (1000-1600), 403-419. Leiden: Brill.

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

Jāzim, Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Raḥīm
2006 al-Daftar al-mu’ayyadî : un nouveau manuscrit administratif d’époque rasûlide (fin viie/xiiie siècle). Chroniques du Manuscrit au Yémen 1. Online at https://journals.openedition.org/cmy/184

Lambourn, Elizabeth
2008 India from Aden: Khuṭba and Muslim Urban Networks in Late Thirteenth-Century India. In Kenneth R. Hall, editor, Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1400-1800, 55-97. Lanhan: Lexington Books.

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.

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-Rashīdī, Musā‘ad
1431-32/2010-11 Al-Maktabāt fī al-Yaman khilāl ‘aṣrī al-dawlatayn al-Rasūlīya wa-al-Ṭāhirīya. M.A. Thesis, Islamic History, Jām‘at al-Qaṣīm, Saudi Arabia.

Sayyid, Ayman Fu‘ād
2006 L'Historiographie du Yémen à l'époque musulmane. In Proceedings of Storia e Cultura dello Yemen in Età Islamica, 33-41. Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
1974 Sources de l'Histoire du Yémen à l'Époque Musulmane. Cairo: Institut francaise d'Archéologie Orientale.

Serjeant, R. B.
1950 Materials for South Arabian history. Notes on new MSS. from Ḥaḍramawt. BSOAS 13:281-307, 581-601.

Smith, G. Rex
2006b "On the Shoulders of Giants" – The Rasulid Fiscal Survey Mulakhkhaṣ al-Fiṭan Revisited. In Proceedings of Storia e Cultura dello Yemen in Età Islamica, 43-59. Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

Vallet, Eric
2007 Décrire et analyser les archives rasûlides. Le cas de Nûr al-ma‘ârif. Chroniques yéménites 14:63-67.
2007 L’édition et l’étude des manuscrits yéménites dans les revues académiques yéménites. Notes bibliographiques. Chroniques du manuscrit au Yémen, n°3. Online at http://www.cefas.com.ye/spip.php?rubrique36

Van Ess, Josef. 2002. [Review of D.M. Varisco, G.R. Smith. The Manuscript of al-Malik al-Afḍal al-ʿAbbās b. ʿAlī b. Dāʾūd b. Yūsuf b. ʿUmar b. ʿAlī Ibn Rasūl (d. 778/1377), Warminster, Aris & Phillips, E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Trust, 1998], Welt des Orients 32:222–226.

Varisco, Daniel Martin
2022 Nūr al-ma‘ārif: A Late Thirteenth Century Rasulid Court Archive. In Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke, editors, Yemeni Manuscript Cultures in Peril. New Jersey: Gorgias Press.
2020 Review of Bughyat al-fallāḥīn fi al-ashjår al-muthmira wa-al-rayåḥīn, al-Malik al-Afḍal al-‘Abbås b.‘ Alī b. Dāwud 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
2011 Medieval Agricultural Texts from Rasulid Yemen. Published online at http://www.filaha.org/medieval_agricultural.html. [Updated version of an article originally published in 1989.]
1989 Medieval Agricultural Texts from Rasulid Yemen. Manuscripts of the Middle East (Leiden), 4:150-154.

Varisco, Daniel Martin and G. Rex Smith, editors
1998 The Manuscript of al-Malik al-Afḍal al--‘Abbās b. ‘Alī b. Dā’ūd b. Yūsuf b. ‘Umar b. ‘Alī ibn Rasūl: A Medieval Arabic Anthology from the Yemen. Gibb Memorial Trust. Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd. [For reviews, see Guo (2000), Mackintosh-Smth (2000) and Van Ess (2002)].

Mecca

Chapoutot-Remadi, Mounira
2019 Entre Ifrīqiya hafside et Égypte mamelouke: Des relations anciennes, continues et consolidées. In F. Bauden and M. Dekkeche, eds., Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies: Studies on Diplomacy and Diplomatics, 529-565. Leiden: Brill, 2019.

al-Fāsī, Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Aḥmad (d. 832/1429)
1998 al-‘Iqd al-thamīn fī ta'rīkh al-balad al-amīn, edited by Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Qādir ‘Aṭā. Beirut, Dār al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyya,

Ibn al-Mujāwir, Jamāl al-Dīn Abī al-Fatāḥ Yūsuf (died 690/1291)
2008 A Traveler in Thirteenth-Century Arabia: Ibn al-Mujāwir’s Tārīkh al-Mustabṣir. Translated by G. Rex Smith. London: The Hakluyt Society. Reviewed by Kruk (2010).
1951-4 Ṣifat bilād al-Yaman wa-Makka wa-ba‘ḍ al-Ḥijāz al-musammāt ta'rīkh al-mustabṣir. Leiden: Brill. (Editor: Oscar Löfgren; two volumes). See also Löfgren 1936. Translated by Smith (2008).

Jalāl, Amīna
1399-1400/1978-79 ‘Alāqat Salāṭīn Banī Rasūl bi al-Ḥijāz 630-855/1232-1451. M. A. Thesis. Mecca: Umm al-Qurā University.

Meloy, John.
2010 Money and Sovereignty in Mecca: Issues of the Sharifs in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. JESHO 53:712-738.
1998 Mamluk Authority, Meccan Autonomy, and Red Sea Trade, 797–859/1395–1455. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1998.

Mortel, Richard T.
1998 Ribāṭs in Mecca during the Medieval Period: A Descriptive Study Based on Literary Sources. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 61(1): 29–50.
1997 Madrasas in Mecca during the Medieval Period: A Descriptive Study Based on Literary Sources. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 60(2): 236–252.
1995 Taxation in the Amirate of Mecca during the Medieval Period. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 58(1):1–16.
1994 The Ḥusaynid Amirate of Madina during the Mamluk Period. Studia Islamica 80:97–123.
1990 Weights and Measures in Mecca during the Late Ayyubid and Mamluk Periods. Arabian Studies 8: 177–85.
1989 Prices in Mecca during the Mamluk Period. JESHO 32:279–334.
1988 The Kiswa: Its Origins and Development from Pre-Islamic Times to the Mamluk Period. al-ʿUṣūr (Riyadh) 3/2: 38-43.
1987 Zaydi Shiism and the Hasanid Sharifs of Mecca. International Journal of Middle East Studies 19(1987):1:455-472.

al-Muqābila, Ḥasan Maḥmūd
2000 al-Rāsūlīyūn wa-al-mamālīk fī al-Hijāz. M.A. thesis, Jāmi‘at al-Yarmūk, Jordan.

al-Muraykhī, Mushalliḥ ibn Kumaykh
2005-2006 Naqsh Islāmī yuʾarrikh li-tajdīd rukhām al-Kaʿba al-musharrafa sanat 680h/1281m bi-amr min al-sultān al-rasūlī
al-Malik al-Muẓaffar. al-Dārah 31, 249–78.

Sadek, Noha
2019 Custodians of the Holy Sanctuaries: Rasulid-Mamluk Rivalry in Mecca. Ulrich Haarmann Memorial Lecture, 20. Berlin: EBVerlag.

Sa‘īd, Muḥammad
2019 Thalāth naqā'ish Rasūliyya min al-Yaman. Journal of the Conferences of the General Union of Arab Archaeologists (CGUAA) 21(21): 831-889. Online at https://cguaa.journals.ekb.eg/

Vallet, Éric
2017 Les sultans du Yémen protecteurs de La Mecque (XIIIe-XIVe siècle). Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, janvier-mars, 211-232.

Medicine, Health

al-‘Abbādī, ‘Abd Allāh Qā’id Ḥasan
1994 al-Ḥayāt al-‘ilmīya fī Zabīd fī ‘ahd al-dawla al-Rasūlīya. M.A. thesis, Kulīya al-Sharī‘a wa-al-Dirāsāt al-Islāmīya. Umm al-Qura University.

al-Malik al-Muẓaffar Yūsūf
2000 al-Mu‘tamad fī al-adwiya al-mufrada. Maḥmūd ‘Umar al-Dimyāṭī. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-‘Ilmīya,

Naḥlāwī, Nawāl
1981 ‘Alā hāmish kitāb “al-Mu‘tamad fī al-adwiya”. al-Iklīl 1(5):175-184.
1980 al-Ta‘rīf: bi-kitāb “Tashīl al-manāfi‘ fī al-ṭibb wa-al-ḥikma” li-Ibn al-Azraq. al-Iklīl 1(1):66-77.

Varisco, Daniel Martin
2012 The 14th Century Almanac Poem of ‘Abd Allāh ibn As‘ad al-Yāfi‘ī. Oriente Moderno 92(1)29-64. [Arabic edition and translation of an almanac poem by a 14th century Yemeni scholar.]
1989 Medicine and the Herbal in Medieval Yemen. In Werner Daum, editor, Yemen. 3000 Years of Art and Civilisation, 312-21. Innsbruck: Pinguin-Verlag.

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