Al-Sayyid Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʿUbaykān (1899–1993): A Saudi Official and His Yemeni Manuscript Collection

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1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS v
3. The Fate of Yemeni Manuscripts, Late Nineteenth to Early Twenty-First Centuries: An Introduction 1
4. PART ONE. MANUSCRIPT LIBRARIES IN YEMEN
5. ‘Touching a Piece of History’: The Life-Cycles and Destinies of Private Yemeni Libraries in an Era of Turmoil 123
6. al-Khizāna al-Mutawakkiliyya: The Imam’s New Library 149
7. The Historic Journey of Banī al-Wazīr’s Library 171
8. Yemeni Cultural Patrimony in Manuscript Form: Several Decades of Public Policy 189
9. Nūr al-Maʿārif: The Late 13th-Century Rasulid Administrative Archive of al-Malik al- Muzaffar Yusuf 213
10. PART TWO. YEMENI MANUSCRIPTS IN THE WORLD
11. Toward a Reconstruction of ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd al-ʿAnsī’s Oeuvre and Thought 237
12. From Iran to Kawkabān: The Transfer of Sunnī Ḥadīth to Zaydī Yemen : A Case Study of Ms. Vienna, Cod. Glaser 30 347
13. Yemeni Manuscripts of Diverse Provenance at the Berlin State Library 385
14. Eduard Glaser’s Personal Nachlass in Archives of the Czech Republic 417
15. Opening Yemen Up to Italy: Coffee, Textiles, and Arabic Manuscripts 439
16. From the Eyries of Yemen to the Pastures of Holland: The Acquisition and Preservation of Yemeni Manuscripts at Leiden University Library 485
17. Al-Sayyid Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʿUbaykān (1899–1993): A Saudi Official and His Yemeni Manuscript Collection 517
18. Contributors 533