Preserving Yemen's Cultural Heritage: The Yemen Manuscript Digitization Project
Sabine Schmidtke and Jan Thiele provide a history of the manuscripts from the little known Zaydi tradition of Yemen. Centuries old, these contain invaluable information about Islamic thought and exhaustive efforts to preserve the manuscripts are underway. Introduction The size of the manuscript holdings of the many public and private libraries of Yemen makes it one of the most important... Continue Reading