Contents
Foreword by Sheikh Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber
‘Buildings That Fill My Eye’: An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of Yemen / Trevor H.J. Marchand
Part 1: Architectural Traditions of Yemen
Early and Medieval Sanaa: The Evidence on the Ground / Ronald Lewcock
Rasulid Architecture / Noha Sadek
The Bani Tahir and the ʿAmiriyya Madrasa: Architecture and Politics / Venetia Porter
Some Sufi Mausoleums in Yemen / Barbara Finster
Mocha: Maritime Architecture on Yemen’s Red Sea Coast / Nancy Um
Construction, Development and Destruction on Jabal Razih / Shelagh Weir
The Domestic Architecture of the Northern Plateaux and Eastern Slopes of Yemen: Building Attitudes and Formal Identities / Fernando Varanda
The Art of Building Tower Houses in the Wadi Hadhramaut / Pamela Jerome
The Forts of Yemen: The Example of the Citadel of Taʿizz / Noha Sadek
The Minarets of Sanaa / Trevor H.J. Marchand
Part 2: Preserving Yemen’s Architectural Heritage
The Campaign to Preserve the Old City of Sanaa / Ronald Lewcock
Preserving Shibam: The City of Towering Mud Houses / Tom Leiermann
Preserving and Transmitting Traditional Building Techniques in Yemen / Renzo Ravagnan, Sabina Antonini De Maigret, and Cristina Muradore
Majil and Birka: Cisterns in the Western Highlands of Yemen / Ingrid Hehmeyer
Part 3: Making Space & Place in Yemen
Paradise Built: Al-Shahari’s Description of Sanaa in the Twelfth/Eighteenth Century / Tim Mackintosh-Smith
A Nasraniyya in Sanaa, 1988-99 / Deborah Dorman
Bodies on the Move: Gender Dynamics on a Sanaani Minibus / Gabriele Vom Bruck
The Zabidi House / Anne Meneley
Views of Aden / St John Simpson
Afterword: Preservation of Cultural Heritage is the Preservation of Cultural Identity and Belonging / Nabil Al-Makaleh And Fahd Al-Quraishi
Contributors
Acknowledgements