Lightning Over Yemen: A History of the Ottoman Campaign in Yemen, 1569-71
Lightning Over Yemen: A History of the Ottoman Campaign in Yemen, 1569-71 by Clive Smith
I. B. Tauris | September 6, 2002 | English | ISBN: 1860648363 | 256 pages | PDF | 5 MB
I. B. Tauris | September 6, 2002 | English | ISBN: 1860648363 | 256 pages | PDF | 5 MB
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.