A History of Water Engineering and Management in Yemen : : Material Remains and Textual Foundations / / Ingrid Hehmeyer.
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 premodern times. As illustrated in case studies from four sites, individual ecosystems necessitated different engineering and...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, , Boston : : BRILL,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East
129. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 303 pages) :; illustrations, maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Transliteration
- Figures and Tables
- Photo Credits and Permissions for Reproduction
- Introduction
- Irrigated Agriculture in Ancient South Arabia: The Oasis of Mārib
- Introduction to Part I
- Agricultural Practices in the Controlled Irrigation Network of Ancient Mārib
- The City of Zabīd (Founded 820 CE) and its Agricultural Hinterland before the First Ottoman Conquest in 1539
- Introduction to Part II
- Sayl Irrigation in the Wādī Zabīd
- The Importance of the Agricultural Hinterland to Pre-Ottoman Zabīd
- Engineered Water Systems in the Wādī Zabīd
- Water and Waste in the City of Zabīd
- Water and Settlement on the Coastal Plain of Southern Yemen: The Example of Ghayl Bā Wazīr
- Introduction to Part III
- Tapping Underground Water: The Maʿyān System of Ghayl Bā Wazīr
- Water-Storage Systems in the Western Highlands of Yemen: The Cisterns of al-Jabīn
- Introduction to Part IV
- The Study and Restoration of Birkat ʿĀṭif, a Public Cistern in al-Jabīn
- Water and Religious Magic
- Introduction to Part V
- Water and Religious Magic
- Concluding Remarks
- Back Matter
- Glossary
- Works Cited
- Index.