Research Catalog

Title

Yemen : the politics of the Yemen Arab Republic / Robert W. Stookey.

Author

Stookey, Robert W., 1917-

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c1978.

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Details

Description

xvi, 322 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Westview special studies on the Middle East

Uniform Title

Westview special studies on the Middle East.

Subjects

• History
• Yemen, North > History
• Yemen (Republic) > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [311]-317.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- The ancient states: The incense trade ; Maʻīn abd Saba ; Ethiopian invasion and the rise of monotheism ; Extinction of the Sabean state -- The Islamic background: Early Islam ; The Yemeni apostasy ; Islam as a political system ; Shīʻism and Yemen ; Yemen under the Umayyads and early Abbasids -- The Fatimid states in Yemen: The Fatimid movement ; ʼAlī bin al-Faḍl and Manṣūr al-Yaman ; The Ṣulayḥids -- The Zaisi imamate: The tribes of northern Yemen ; Zaidism--origin and political dosctrines ; al-Hādī's concept of government ; The early Zaidi regime ; The setting of the Ayyūbid conquest -- The Rasūlid state: The Ayyūbid occupation ; The Rasūlids and their accession ; The Rasūlid state ; The Rasūlid political legacy -- The Sharaf-al-Dīn and Qāsimī Dynasties: The Circassian invasion ; The Turkish occupation ; The Qāsimī Dynasty ; The Ulama and the tribes ; The second Ottoman occupation ; The Ḥamīd al-Dīn compromise with the Turks -- The Mutawakkilite kingdom: The Yemeni political outlook ; The kingdom's social structure ; The Ḥamīd al-Dīn imams ; The decline of the regimes legitimacy ; Political change under the Ḥamīd al-Dīn -- Revolution, civil war, and intervention: The al-Wazīr coup (1948) ; The 1955 coup attempt ; The 1962 revolution ; The Yemen Arab Republic ; The Yemeni royalists ; The Saudi role -- Yemen reunited: National reconciliation and the constitution ; Problems of development ; Failure of the constitutional experiment ; The military regime -- Epilogue: National integration.

ISBN

0891583009

LCCN

^^^77000454^

OCLC

• 2798640
• SCSB-11455007

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library