Zaydī rebellion in the Kitāb al-Futūḥ of Ibn Aʿtham (fl. around 320/932): The case of Yaḥyā b. Zayd b. ʿAlī (d. 125/743)

Ibn Taymiyya and Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī

Introducing Kawāshif al-ḥujub of al-Māzandarānī (d. 1285/1868)

Seeking (or Not Seeking) Clarification: Introducing al-Wāfī fī sharḥ al-Wāfiya of al-Aʿrajī (d. 1227/1812)

Miracles of Mary between Ethiopia and the Arabic-speaking world

How did stories about the Virgin Mary travel between the Middle East, Europe and the Horn of Africa?

On The Historical Potential of Zaydi Legal Sources

“A stray bullet from the seventh century hit Yemen”: Anti-Zaydi polemics and the politics of genealogy in al-Ghobari’s Al-Qabīlah al-Hāshimiyyah

Zaydi fiqh and the Jews of Yemen

How can the study of Zaydi jurisprudence help us understand the relationship between Imam Yaḥyā Ḥamīd al-Dīn (r. 1904-1948) and the Jews of Yemen? What sources are available for study? What further questions does the focus on dhimma law raise regarding Zaydi law and political thought?

How an old Yemeni legal manual helped to decipher the South Arabian script

Manuscript copies of well-known works, especially notes in them and other traces of use, can reveal surprising details. On close inspection, the Zaydi manuscript presented here turns out to be one of the oldest copies of Kitāb al-Azhār, which also has an exciting history of provenance and reception.