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Southwest Arabia across History

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Southwest Arabia across History

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ISBN-13978-3-7001-7603-9
ISBN-13 Online978-3-7001-7805-7
Subject AreaByzantine Studies
Quality reviewrefereed - online - print

Preliminaries

page 1

Table of Contents

page 5

Siegfried Haas - Andre Gingrich

Acknowledgments

page 7

Andre Gingrich - Helmut Lukas

Walter Dostal, Obituary and List of Academic Print & Film Publications

page 9

Andre Gingrich - Siegfried Haas

Southwest Arabia across History: Introducing Insights from Current Research

page 21

Roswitha Stiegner

Walter Dostal and (Ancient) South Arabia: Cultural and Social Anthropology and the “Ivory Tower” of Regional Studies

page 25

Ingrid Hehmeyer

Water Engineering and Management Practices in South Arabia: Aspects of Continuity and Change from Ancient to Medieval and Modern Times

page 43

Eirik Hovden

Birka and Baraka - Cistern and Blessing: Notes on Custom and Islamic Law Regarding Public Cisterns in Northern Yemen

page 55

Daniel Mahoney

Cultural Heritage and Identity Politics in Early Medieval South Arabia

page 67

Johann Heiss

Sa‘da revisited

page 79

Marieke Brandt

Inhabiting Tribal Structures: Leadership Hierarchies in Tribal Upper Yemen (Hamdān and Khawlān b. ‘Āmir)

page 91

Andre Gingrich

Galactic Polities: Anthropological Insights for Understanding States in Yemen’s pre-Ottoman Past

page 117

Notes on Contributors, Illustrations: References

page 125