Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2007. MS Marsh 54, fol. 68v upside down, with the
blades being mistakenly depicted as a decorative bar. The 6-lobed shape at the foot of the …

Traditional medical lore along with its practitioners–druggists and healers–survives in
Yemen today. Owing to the country's rich biodiversity, the main body of the medicines is plant-…

On closer observation smaller differences in the constitution of the relief are visible. Figure 1
shows a depression of the surface which is clearly not an accident of nature. This can only …

In A History of Water Engineering and Management in Yemen, Ingrid Hehmeyer describes
the three-way relationship between water, land, and humans from ancient to medieval and …

The town of Ghayl Bā Wazīr in southern Yemen lies at the edge of a karst massif. Natural
subterranean streams have formed dramatic solution caverns in the gypsum bedrock. When the …

Introduction A characteristic of Islamic cities is the individual neighbourhoods, which have
their own institutions such as mosques or schools, and service facilities such as bakeries or …

Like most of Yemen, the agriculture of the Wadi Zabid (PL III) depended until fairly recently,
with the introduction of diesel pumps, upon the biannual monsoon cycle of rains. In some …

The preserved heritage of al-Jabin, a town located in Yemen’s western highlands, offers a
unique opportunity to document traditional water engineering principles. There are no springs …

Southwest Arabia across History honors the legacy of Walter Dostal as one of Continental
Europe’s most eminent scholars in these fields, by offering innovative contributions in the …

The account of the Prophet Muḥammad’s night journey (isrāʾ) and his subsequent ascension
to heaven (miʿrāj) includes a description of how Muḥammad was transported through …