8vo. Volume I: 120 pp., / Volume II: 415 pp., Arabic text, modern hard back binding, library stamp on lower edge of title page, al-Matba'a al-Salafiya, Cairo, 1376 A. H./ 1956.

Synopsis

Islam came to Yemen around 630 during the Prophet’s lifetime and under the rule of the Persian governor Badhan. Thereafter, Yemen was ruled as part of Arab-Islamic caliphates, and became a province in the Islamic Empire.
Regimes affiliated to the Egyptian Fatimid caliphs occupied much of northern and southern Yemen throughout the 11th century, including the Sulayhids and Zuraidis, but the country was rarely unified for any long period of time. Local control in the Middle Ages was exerted by a succession of dynasties, which included the Ziyadis (818–1018), the Najahids (1022–1158), the Egyptian Ayyubids (1174–1229) and the Turkoman Rasulids.
This work is written by a Yemeni historian, covering a specific period of Yemen history.