Yemeni Manuscript Tradition

David Hollenberg (PhD University of Pennsylvania) is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Religious Studies at the University of Oregon. His recent publications include "The Empire Writes Back: Fāṭimid-Ismāʿīlī Taʾwīl (allegoresis) and the Mysteries of the Ancient Greeks” (in The Study of Shi'i Islam: The State of the Field, Issues of Methodology and Recent Developments, ed. F. Daftary and G. Miskinzoda, London, Tauris, 2014), and Neoplatonism in Early Fatimid Doctrine: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Prologue of the Kitāb al-fatarāt wa-l-qirānāt (The Book of Periods and Conjunctions) (Le Muséon 2010). He is the director of the Yemeni Manuscripts Digitization initiative, a scholarly collective devoted to preserving the manuscripts of Yemen.Christoph Rauch is Director of the Oriental Department of the Berlin State Library. He studied Arabic and religion at the University of Leipzig. His research interests cover Islam, manuscripts in Yemen, and the history of Oriental collections in the Western world.Sabine Schmidtke (D.Phil. University of Oxford) is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. She has published extensively on Islamic and Jewish intellectual history. Her works include Theologie, Philosophie und Mystik im zwölferschiitischen Islam des 9./15. Jahrhunderts. Die Gedankenwelt des Ibn Abī Jumhūr al-Aḥsāʾī (um 838/1434-35 - nach 906/1501) (Leiden 2000), and, together with Reza Pourjavady, A Jewish Philosopher of Baghdad. ʿIzz al-Dawla Ibn Kammūna and his Writings (Leiden 2006).

• IntroductionDavid Hollenberg, Christoph Rauch, Sabine SchmidtkeList of contributorsWas the Ṣanʿāʾ Qurʾān Palimpsest a Work in Progress?Asma HilaliYūsuf al-Baṣīr’s Rebuttal of Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī in a Yemeni Zaydī Manuscript of the 7th/13th CenturyHassan Ansari, Wilferd Madelung and Sabine SchmidtkeMS Berlin, State Library, Glaser 51: A Unique Manuscript From the Early 7th/13th-Century Bahšamite Milieu in YemenHassan Ansari and Jan ThieleThe Pearl and the Ruby: Scribal Dicta and Other Metatextual Notes in Yemeni Mediaeval ManuscriptsArianna D’OttoneThe Literary-Religious Tradition Among 7th/13th-Century Yemenī Zaydīs (II): The Case of ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd al-ʿAnsī (d. 667/1269)Hassan Ansari and Sabine SchmidtkeMS Munich, Bavarian State Library, Cod. arab. 1294: A Guide to Zaydī Kalām-Studies During the Ṭāhirid and Early Qāsimite Periods (mid-15th—early 18th centuries)Gregor SchwarbZaydī Scholars on the Move: A Multitext Manuscript by Yaḥyā Ibn Ḥumayd al-Miqrāʾī (b. 908/1503, d. 990/1582) and Other Contemporary SourcesChristoph RauchPapiers filigranés de manuscrits de Zabid, premier tiers du XVIIIe-milieu du XXe siècle: papiers importés et «locaux»Anne RegourdṢanʿāʾ, Jerusalem, New York: Imām Yaḥyā Ḥamīd al-Dīn (1869-1948) and Yemeni-Jewish Migration from Palestine to the United StatesMenashe Anzi and Kerstin HünefeldIndex of NamesIndex of PlacesIndex of Books