Historical Dictionary Of Yemen

Author : Charles Schmitz,Robert D. Burrowes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538102336

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Historical Dictionary of Yemen by Charles Schmitz,Robert D. Burrowes Pdf

Yemen has experienced wrenching changes that have transformed the country in yet unknown ways. The country exploded in a popular revolution against the long-time rule of Ali Abdallah Saleh. While the country appeared to slip toward civil war, Yemeni political elite rallied with international backers to put together a transitional government with a plan to revise the country’s constitution. The transitional government began with a cautious sense of optimism and the prospect of substantial change for the better, but ended in collapse because of a failure to govern. The politics of the street overran an ineffective transitional government that could not address the urgent concerns of Yemeni citizens for security and jobs. Instead, populist leaders exploited people’s dissatisfactions and threw the country into civil war. The Houthi organization covertly allied with its former enemy, Ali Abdallah Saleh, to overthrow the transitional government and declare war on the rest of the country. Saleh seems unable to conceive of life outside of the Presidential Palace and his Houthi allies appear to believe they are destined to rule. Unfortunately, those opposed to Saleh and the Houthi also seem unable to provide effective rule in spite of massive backing from the Gulf States. The incompetence, infighting, and incoherence of the Hadi government bode equally ill for the future of the country. The one hope may be that a new generation of Yemeni leaders emerges to displace the dismal failures of this one. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Yemen contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Yemen.

Author : Robert D. Burrowes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Yemen (Republic)
ISBN : 9780810855281

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Historical Dictionary of Yemen by Robert D. Burrowes Pdf

A small and extremely poor Islamic country, Yemen is located on the edge of the Arab world in the southernmost corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It was the product of the unification of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen in May 1990. The location of the two Yemens on the world's busiest sea-lane at the southern end of the Red Sea where Asia almost meets Africa gave them strategic significance from the start of the age of imperialism through the Cold War. More vital today is the fact that Yemen shares a long border with oil-rich Saudi Arabia and is a key to efforts both to spread and to end global revolutionary Islam and its use of terror. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Yemen has been thoroughly updated and greatly expanded. Through its list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries, greater attention has been given to foreign affairs, economic institutions and policies, social issues, religion, and politics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 6613969524

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Historical Dictionary of Yemen by Anonim Pdf

The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Yemen has been thoroughly updated and greatly expanded. Through its list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries, greater attention has been given to foreign affairs, economic institutions and policies, social issues, religion, and politics.

Author : Moshe Piamenta
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1990-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004092943

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A Dictionary of Post-Classical Yemeni Arabic by Moshe Piamenta Pdf

This publication is a most comprehensive, richly-documented dictionary which presents, in local Arabic dialects and in mostly assimilated Judaeo-Yemeni dialects, the natural, geo-political, economic, and socio-cultural history of Muslim Yemen. It is also an account of the religious inter- and intra-socio-cultural and economic everyday life of the ancient Jewish communities who lived as dhimm's under Muslim rule until their mass emigration to Israel in 1948, leaving behind 5,000 co-religionists. The dictionary is based on about 300 printed and ms sources painstakingly consulted in various libraries all over the world, and many Yemeni language informants now residing in Israel. The text of every single item is adduced, mostly in context, with reference to ms., or book, page, line, or note, and to classical and foreign etymologies. Particular attention has been paid to the dictionaries of Lane and Dozy. This is a milestone in Arabic lexicography, complementing Dozy's "Supplement aux dictionnaires arabes," and opening up a complete new area sorely missing in the field of Arabic Studies.

Author : J.E. Peterson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538119808

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Historical Dictionary of Saudi Arabia by J.E. Peterson Pdf

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia now has been under the spotlight of Western curiosity for more than 80 years. More than 15% of the world’s total oil reserves lie underneath Saudi Arabia and, in the early 1990s, the kingdom became the world’s largest crude oil producer. Not surprisingly, a world highly dependent on oil regards the desert kingdom as an area of intense strategic concern, as reflected in the coalition of forces assembled on Saudi soil to oust Iraq from Kuwait in 1991. Also, it played a major role in the invasion of Saddam Husayn’s Iraq in 2003 and shares concern with the West over Iran’s nuclear intentions throughout the 21st century. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Saudi Arabia contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Saudi Arabia.

Author : Daoud Aboubaker Alwan,Yohanis Mibrathu
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0810838737

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Historical Dictionary of Djibouti by Daoud Aboubaker Alwan,Yohanis Mibrathu Pdf

Established as a country a little more than a century ago, born as an independent republic in June 1977, Djibouti is among the youngest as well as the smallest states in Africa. Yet its strategic location at the crossroads of the maritime trade routes between Africa, Asia and Europe turned this tiny spot on the world map into a vital player in twentieth century geopolitics. This historical dictionary has been conceived not as a history book but as a reading grid for the major historical items that are still molding the country's social, political and economic life.

Author : Tim Mackintosh-Smith,Martin Yeoman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Yemen (Republic)
ISBN : 0719597404

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Yemen by Tim Mackintosh-Smith,Martin Yeoman Pdf

Our ideas of the Arabian Peninusula have been hijacked: by images of the desert, by oil, by the Gulf War. But there is another Arabia. For the Classical geographers Yemen was a fabulous land where flying serpents guarded sacred incense groves. Medieval Arab visitors told of disappearing islands and menstruating mountains. Vita Sackville-West found Aden 'precisely the most repulsive corner of the world'. Arguably the most fascinating but least known country in the Arab world, Yemen has a way of attracting comment that ranges from the superficial to the wildly fictitious. In Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land, Tim Mackintosh-Smith writes with an intimacy and depth of knowledge gained through over twenty years among the Yemenis. He is a travelling companion of the best sort - erudite, witty and eccentric. Crossing mountain, desert, ocean and three millennia of history, he portrays hyrax hunters and dhow skippers, a noseless regicide, and a sword-wielding tyrant with a passion for Heinz Russian salad. Yet even the ordinary Yemenis are extraordinary: their family tree goes back to Noah and is rooted in a land which, in the words of a contemporary poet, has become the dictionary of its people. Every page of this book is dashed - like the land it describes - with the marvellous.

Author : Terri Ginsberg,Chris Lippard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538139059

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Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema by Terri Ginsberg,Chris Lippard Pdf

To a substantial degree cinema has served to define the perceived character of the peoples and nations of the Middle East. This book covers the production and exhibition of the cinema of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabi, Yemen, Kuwait, and Bahrain, as well as the non-Arab states of Turkey and Iran, and the Jewish state of Israel. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on individual films, filmmakers, actors, significant historical figures, events, and concepts, and the countries themselves. It also covers the range of cinematic modes from documentary to fiction, representational to animation, generic to experimental, mainstream to avant-garde, and entertainment to propaganda. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Middle Eastern cinema.

Author : John Peterson
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015002854777

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Historical Dictionary of Saudi Arabia by John Peterson Pdf

Author : Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1468308823

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Yemen by Tim Mackintosh-Smith Pdf

Arguably the most fascinating and least understood country in the Arab world, Yemen has a way of attracting comment that ranges from the superficial to the wildly fantastic.

Author : John J. Chin,Joseph Wright,David B. Carter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 1501 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538120682

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Historical Dictionary of Modern Coups d'état by John J. Chin,Joseph Wright,David B. Carter Pdf

“For readers interested in international relations, politics, and global issues.” -Library Journal, Starred Review The Historical Dictionary of Modern Coups d’état surveys the history of coups d’état in the post-World War II period. The term “modern” in the title therefore demarcates the period since January 1946. This book documents over 582 coup attempts that have occurred in 108 different countries worldwide over a period of 75 years. Historical Dictionary of Modern Coups d'état contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,400 cross-referenced dictionary entries. This book is an excellent resource for students, and researchers.

Author : Frank Clements
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0810839776

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Historical Dictionary of Arab and Islamic Organizations by Frank Clements Pdf

Unity is an often-heard word in Arab and Islamic circles. This historical dictionary seeks to show that along with the underlying sources of unity, there are also sources of division in these groups. Unlike other volumes in this series, this volume focuses not only on the organizations, but also on the key countries and figures of the region. Includes: o An explanatory introduction o List of Acronyms o Chronology o Bibliography

Author : Mathieu Guidère
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781538106709

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Historical Dictionary of Islamic Fundamentalism by Mathieu Guidère Pdf

After the rise of the Islamic State in the Middle East and the new geopolitical landscape in this region, it is essential for the modern reader to understand the history that has allowed for and influenced these types of Islamic groups to form. Historical Dictionary of Islamic Fundamentalism acts as a didactic resource that explains, from the Islamic perspective, the historical importance of the Islamic fundamentalist world. This dictionary provides a comprehensive and thorough analysis of various groups, events, movements, key figures, and dogmas that have influenced contemporary Islamic fundamentalism. A chronology spanning 600 years, graphs of complex Islamic group associations and alliances, and an Arabic-to-English glossary have all been included to facilitate a complete understanding of the nuances and generalities that have shaped this movement. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Islamic Fundamentalism also contains an introduction, appendixes, an extensive bibliography, and more than 700 cross-referenced entries on ideologies, people, events, and movements of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Author : Sarah Tenney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538122488

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Historical Dictionary of Arab and Islamic Organizations by Sarah Tenney Pdf

The Historical Dictionary of Arab and Islamic Organizations focuses on international and regional organizations primarily in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. With more than 300 cross-referenced entries, this volume includes both major and minor organizations. While the emphasis is on intergovernmental institutions, it also covers non-governmental organizations, key countries, movements, and prominent figures in the Arab and Islamic world. Like other dictionaries of this type, it includes an introductory essay, chronology of major events, and a select bibliography for further reading. It provides a solid starting point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the subject.

Author : Paul Dresch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 052179482X

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A History of Modern Yemen by Paul Dresch Pdf

An accessible and fast moving account of twentieth-century Yemeni history.