The Modern and Contemporary History of Yemen includes a variety of articles, lectures, and theses gathered for researchers and foreign readers interested in Yemen's political and cultural history. It covers the modern and contemporary history of Yemen from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It reveals a previously unpublished fatwa text by the scholar Al-Maqbali regarding the legal status of the Batiniyya and Ismailiyya among the Hamdan residents and a document containing correspondences between Imam Yahya Hamid al-Din and tribes in eastern and southern Yemen for liberating Aden from British forces. It first illustrates what is stated in the sacred national document, representing the theoretical orientation and temporary constitution of the national movement and those opposing Imam Yahya. Secondly, it discusses the 1982 national document, initiated in the wake of the 1962 revolution in the north and independence in the south in 1967, during a period when Yemen was experiencing difficult times, instability, extremism, and various opinions from Islamic right-wing and Leninist-Marxist left-wing. It then provides a historical overview, recalling Yemen's relations with Europe and the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Briefly, it discusses the life of Yemen's last Imam, Muhammad al-Badr, who ruled after the Ottoman withdrawal in 1636. Finally, the book discusses in detail Yemen's role and the Arab media's role in Asia during the twentieth century, along with the Yemeni Hadrami influence in East Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, drawing parallels between Yemen and Vienna in terms of enchanting beauty and Ottoman siege.

• Author: Hussein Al-Amri
• Publisher: Dar Al-Fikr Al-Muasir - Damascus
• Edition Number: 2
• Publication Year: 2001
• Number of Pages: 344
• Number of Parts: 1
• Cover Type: Softcover
• Paper Type: White
• ISBN: 1-57547-967-2