Rasulid Yemen Resources
Bibliography by Author


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.

‘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.

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.]

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

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.

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-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-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.
2008 al-Ḥayāt al-‘ilmiyya fī al-Yaman min bidāyat al-qarn al-tāsi‘ al-hijrī ḥatā saytarat al-‘Uthmāniyyin ‘alayhā. Ph.D. Thesis, al-Manṣūrat University, Egypt

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.
1996 Les hijra et les forteresses du savoir au Yémen. Translated by B. Marino. Ṣan‘ā’: CFEY.
1400/1980 al-Madāris al-islāmīya fī al-Yaman. Damascus: Dār al-Fikr. (Manshūrāt Jāmi‘at Ṣan‘ā', number 1).

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

al-Akwa‘, Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī, editor
......... 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.

Aḥmad, Muḥammad ‘Abd al-‘Āl
1980 al-Ayyūbiyūn fī al-Yaman. Alexandria: al-Ha’ya al-Maṣrīya al-‘Āma li-al-Kitāb.
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, A. A.
1980 Banū Rasūl wa-Banū Ṭāhir wa-‘alāqāt al-Yaman al-khārijiyya fī ‘ahdhumā. Cairo: al-Hay’a al-Maṣrīya al-‘Amma li-al-Kutub.

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

Ansari, Hassan and Sabine Schmidtke
2011 The Literary-Religious Tradition among 7th/13th century Yemenī Zaydīs: The Formation of the Imām al-Mahdī li-Dīn Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn b. al-Qāsim (d. 656/1258). Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 2:165-222.

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

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.
2012 al-Jaysh fī al-Yaman fī ‘aṣr al-dawla al-Rasūlīya (626-858H/1228-1454M). Dār al-Wifāq li-al-Dirāsāt wa-al-Nashr.
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.

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.

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

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].

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.

Baldry, John
1982 Textiles in Yemen: Historical References to Trade and Commerce in Textiles in Yemen from Antiquity to Modern Times. British Museum Occasional Paper, 27. London: British Museum.

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 inēdits du Yēmen. Bulletin de l’Institut Egyptien, 347-55.

al-Baraddūnī, ‘Abd Allāh
1980 Aḥmad ibn ‘Alwān bayn al-ta’rīkh wa-al-ḥikāyāt. al-Iklīl 1(2):31-40.

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. Thesis, 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.]

Bikhazi, Ramzi J.
1970 Coins of al-Yaman. al-Abḥāth, 23:3-127.

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

Bosworth, Clifford E.
1978. AL-KHAZRADJĪ. The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed. 4:1188b. Leiden: Brill.

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.]

Bulakh, Maria and Leonid Kogan
2017 The Arabic-Ethiopic Glossary by al-Malik al-Afḍal. Leiden: Brill.
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.

al-Burayhī, ‘Abd al-Wahhāb ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥman (died 904/1498-9)
1984 Ṭabaqāt ṣulḥā' al-Yaman. Ṣan‘ā': Markaz al-Dirāsāt wa-al-Buḥ‚th al-Yamanī. (Editor: ‘Abd Allāh al-Ḥibshī).

Cahen, Claude and R. B. Serjeant
1957 A fiscal survey of the medieval Yemen. Arabica 4(1):23-33.

Casanova, P.
1894 Dinars inēdits du Yēmen. Revue Numismatique, 200-220.

Chaudhuri, K. N.
1985 Trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean. an Economic History from the Rise of Islam to 1750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cornu, G.
1982 La tradition des textiles au Yémen. Bulletin du CIETA 55-56:74-88.

Costa, Paolo
1983 The Mosque of al-Janad. In R. L. Bidwell and G. R. Smith, (editors), Arabian and Islamic Studies, 43-67. London: Longman.
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.

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

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.

Chelhod, Joseph
1978 Introduction à l'histoire sociale et urbaine de Zabīd. Arabica 25:48-88.

Croken, Barbara E.
1990 Zabīd under the Rasulids of Yemen, 628-858 AH/1229-1454 AD. Ph. D. dissertation, Harvard University.

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.

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
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)
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).
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Ducatez, G.
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Ducène, Jean-Charles
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

Dufour, Julien
2009 Edition de 35 poèmes du faqîh ‘Abd Allâh b. Abî Bakr al‑Mazzâh (mort après 830/1427) contenus dans le manuscrit Adab 57 de la Grande Mosquée de Sanaa (Al‑Maktaba al‑gharbiyya). Chroniques du Manuscrit au Yémen 7 Online at https://journals.openedition.org/cmy/1874

al-Fayfī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad
2004 al-Dawla al-Rasūliyya fī al-Yemen: Dirāsa fī awḍā’ihā al-siyāsiyya wa-al-ḥaḍāriyya 803/827H/1400-1424M. Dār al-‘Arabiyya al-Mawsū‘āt.
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Finster, Barbara
1992 An Outline of the History of Islamic Religious Architecture in Yemen. Muqarnas 9:124-147.
1989 The architecture of the Rasulids. In Werner Daum, editor, Yemen. 3000 Years of Art and Civilisation, 254-64. Innsbruck: Pinguin-Verlag.
1986 Survey islamischer Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler im Yemen. Archäologische Berichte aus dem Jemen 3:14-206.
1979 Die Moschee von Ṣarḥa. Baghdader Mitteilungen, 10:229-42.

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.

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Ghālib, Muḥammad Luṭf
1987 Risālat Aḥmad ibn ‘Alwān. al-Iklīl 5(1):157-163.

Giunta, R.
1997 The Rasūlid Architectural Patronage in Yemen: A Catalogue. Naples.

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

Goitein, S. D. and M. A. Friedman
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Golden, Peter B.
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Golden, Peter B., editor
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al-Ḥaddād, ‘Abd Allāh ‘Abd al-Salām
2012 al-Nuṣūṣ al-ta’sīsīya bi-jāmi‘ Ma‘ādh ibn Jabal bi-madīnat al-Janad bi-Ta‘izz. al-Iklīl 41:99-130.

al-Ḥaḍramī, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn ‘Abd Allāh
2000 Zabīd: Masājidhā wa-madārishā al-‘ilmiyya fī al-ta’rīkh. Damascus: al-Ma‘had al-Fransī li-al-Dirāsāt al-‘Arabiyya bi-Dimāshq.
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Ḥammād, Usama Aḥmad
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al-Ḥamzī, ‘Imād al-dīn ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Abd Allāh (d. 714/1314)
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Heidemann, Stefan
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al-Ḥibshī, ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad
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1980 Ta‘qīb ‘alā muḥāḍira al-duktūr Dāfīd Kinj. al-Iklīl 1(1):197-202.
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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.]

Hudayl, Ṭaha Ḥusayn
2012 Al-Tamradāt al-Qabalīya fī ‘aṣr al-dawla al-Rasūlīya wa-athar-hā fī al-ḥayāt al-‘āmma (626-858 H). Aden: Dār al-Wifāq.
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