A History of Water Engineering and Management in Yemen

Material Remains and Textual Foundations
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38701-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 129, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East

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 management approaches in order to make good use of the scarce water resources for both irrigated agriculture and domestic consumption. Material remains and written sources provide the evidence for a comprehensive examination of continuity and change; technical and managerial struggles, failures, and successes; the question of technology transfer; the impact of the religion of Islam on water use and allocation; and people’s reactions in times of severe crisis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hehmeyer, Ingrid

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

A Note on Transliteration

List of Figures and Tables

Photo Credits and Permissions for Reproduction

Introduction

PART I

Irrigated Agriculture in Ancient South Arabia: The Oasis of Marib

Introduction to Part I

Case Study 1: Agricultural Practices in the Controlled Irrigation Network of Ancient Marib

PART II

The City of Zabid (Founded 820 ce) and its Agricultural Hinterland before the First Ottoman Conquest in 1539

Introduction to Part II

Case Study 2: Sayl Irrigation in the Wadi Zabid

Case Study 3: The Importance of the Agricultural Hinterland to Pre-Ottoman Zabid

Case Study 4: Engineered Water Systems in the Wadi Zabid

Case Study 5: Water and Waste in the City of Zabid

PART III

Water and Settlement on the Coastal Plain of Southern Yemen: The Example of Ghayl Ba Wazir

Introduction to Part III

Case Study 6: Tapping Underground Water: The Ma'yan System of Ghayl Ba Wazir

PART IV

Water-Storage Systems in the Western Highlands of Yemen: The Cisterns of al-Jabin

Introduction to Part IV

Case Study 7: The Study and Restoration of Birkat 'Atif, a Public Cistern in al-Jabin

PART V

Water and Religious Magic

Introduction to Part V

Case Study 8: Water and Religious Magic

Concluding Remarks

Glossary

Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ingrid Hehmeyer, associate professor of history of science and technology at Ryerson University, Toronto (Canada), received her doctorate in agriculture in 1988 and a master of science degree (equivalent) in pharmacy in 1990, both from the University of Bonn (Germany). Amongst her numerous publications on water use and medicine is Herbal Medicine in Yemen: Traditional Knowledge and Practice, and Their Value for Today’s World (ed., with H. Schönig, Leiden, Brill, 2012).