The Fate of Yemeni Manuscripts, Late Nineteenth to Early Twenty-First Centuries: An Introduction ....................................................................................................... 1
Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke
PART ONE. MANUSCRIPT LIBRARIES IN YEMEN ........................................................ 123
‘Touching a Piece of History’: The Life-Cycles and Destinies of Private Yemeni Libraries in an Era of Turmoil ............................................................................................... 125
Gabriele vom Bruck
al-Khizāna al-Mutawakkiliyya: The Imam’s New Library .............................................. 153
Brinkley Messick
The Historic Journey of Banī al-Wazīr’s Library ............................................................ 175
Zaid bin Ali al-Wazir
Yemeni Cultural Patrimony in Manuscript Form: Several Decades of Public Policy ... 193
Anne Regourd
Nūr al-Maʿārif: The Late 13th-Century Rasulid Administrative Archive of al-Malik al-Muzaffar Yusuf ....................................................................................................... 217
Daniel Martin Varisco
PART TWO. YEMENI MANUSCRIPTS IN THE WORLD .................................................. 239
Toward a Reconstruction of ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd al-ʿAnsī’s Oeuvre and Thought .......... 241
Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke
From Iran to Kawkabān: The Transfer of Sunnī Ḥadīth to Zaydī Yemen : A Case Study of Ms. Vienna, Cod. Glaser 30.................................................................................... 349
Stefanie Brinkmann
Yemeni Manuscripts of Diverse Provenance at the Berlin State Library ...................... 387
Christoph Rauch
Eduard Glaser’s Personal Nachlass in Archives of the Czech Republic ........................ 419
Jan Thiele
Opening Yemen Up to Italy: Coffee, Textiles, and Arabic Manuscripts ........................ 441
Valentina Sagaria Rossi
From the Eyries of Yemen to the Pastures of Holland: The Acquisition and Preservation of Yemeni Manuscripts at Leiden University Library ............................................ 487
Karin Scheper and Arnoud Vrolijk
Al-Sayyid Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʿUbaykān (1899–1993): A Saudi Official and His Yemeni Manuscript Collection ........................................................................ 519
Bernard Haykel
Contributors ................................................................................................................... 535