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A history of water engineering and management in Yemen : material remains and textual foundations /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Handbook of Oriental studies. Near and Middle East (2014) ;
v. 129. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Matter
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Transliteration
- Figures and Tables
- Photo Credits and Permissions for Reproduction
- Introduction
- Irrigated Agriculture in Ancient South Arabia: The Oasis of Mārib
- Introduction to Part I
- Agricultural Practices in the Controlled Irrigation Network of Ancient Mārib
- The City of Zabīd (Founded 820 CE) and its Agricultural Hinterland before the First Ottoman Conquest in 1539
- Introduction to Part II
- Sayl Irrigation in the Wādī Zabīd
- The Importance of the Agricultural Hinterland to Pre-Ottoman Zabīd
- Engineered Water Systems in the Wādī Zabīd
- Water and Waste in the City of Zabīd
- Water and Settlement on the Coastal Plain of Southern Yemen: The Example of Ghayl Bā Wazīr
- Introduction to Part III
- Tapping Underground Water: The Maʻyān System of Ghayl Bā Wazīr
- Water-Storage Systems in the Western Highlands of Yemen: The Cisterns of al-Jabīn
- Introduction to Part IV
- The Study and Restoration of Birkat ʻĀṭif, a Public Cistern in al-Jabīn
- Water and Religious Magic
- Introduction to Part V
- Water and Religious Magic
- Concluding Remarks
- Back Matter
- Glossary
- Works Cited
- Index.