Lightning Over Yemen: A History of the Ottoman Campaign in Yemen, 1569-71 [Hardcover]

Clive Smith (Editor, Translator)

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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: I. B. Tauris (Sep 6 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1860648363
ISBN-13: 978-1860648366
Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 17.3 x 2.4 cm
Shipping Weight: 572 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,139,238 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #69 in Books > History > Middle East > Yemen

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". . . an intense description of a key moment in history, which Smith has succeeded in making highly readable."--Venetia Porter, Cornucopia Magazine

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Yemen’s inhospitable mountain ranges and fiercely independent people have kept all but the most determined invader at bay; and even the Ottomans, when they entered the region in the 16th century, were hard put to achieve more than a tenuous occupation of its highlands. Their military campaign was chronicled by Qutb al-Din al-Nahrawali, a scholar charged by an Ottoman general to document his army’s progress. Lightning Over Yemen makes an invaluable 16th century Ottoman source document available in English for the first time. Al-Nahrawali’s work vividly brings to life a vital period in the history of this far-flung province of the Ottoman empire, which Clive Smith’s exemplary translation fully conveys.

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As soon as the Ottoman sovereign learnt of Mustafa Pasha's delay in Egypt, together with some of the commanders, in departing for Yemen, he dismissed Mustafa Pasha, and appointed Sinan Pasha as minister. Read the first page

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