A history of water engineering and management in Yemen : material remains and textual foundations /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Arabic |
| Language Notes: | In English ; some text in Arabic. |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2019]
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| Series: | Handbook of Oriental studies. Near and Middle East (2014) ;
v. 129. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Irrigated agriculture in Ancient South Arabia : the Oasis of Mārib
- part II. The city of Zabīd (founded 820 CE) and its agricultural hinterland before the First Ottoman Conquest in 1539
- part III. Water and settlement on the coastal plain of Southern Yemen : the example of Ghayl Bā Wazīr
- part IV. Water-storage systems in the Western Highlands of Yemen : the cisterns of al-Jabīn
- part V. Water and religious magic
- Concluding remarks.