Forgotten Arabia: Himyarite Yemen and Early Islam ...Yemen

By ANDREW HAMMOND NEWSLETTER Pre-Islamic Yemen has attracted relatively little attention from scholars of early Islamic history, including those who regard themselves as radically revisionist. The temptation to overlook south Arabia is understandable in that the familiar Late Antiquity regions of the Levant, Mesopotamia and Egypt were the main target of the Hijazi conquests outside Arabia. Those regions provide a form of contemporary written record of the early empire’s fortunes (controversies over its evaluation aside) and they are where the formation of classical Islam of the legal schools, theological debates and philosophy takes place. Fortunately, they are also regions that have always

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