City of divine and earthly joys : the description of Ṣanʻāʼ / by Sayyid Jamāl al-Dīn Alī ibn Abdullāh ibn al-Qāsim ibn al-Muayyad bi Ilāh Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Muhammad al-Shahārī ; translated into English and introduced by Tim Mackintosh-Smith ; from the Arabic text edited by Abdullāh ibn Muḥammad al-Hịbshī.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ibn al-Qāsim, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh, -1776 or 1777.

Contributor:

Ḥibshī, ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad.

Mackintosh-Smith, Tim, 1961-

Series:

Yemen translation series ; #3.

Standardized Title:

Manshūrāt al-jalīyah. Selections.

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic architecture--Yemen (Arab Republic)--Early works to 1800.

Islamic architecture.

Yemen (Republic).

Ṣanʻāʼ (Yemen)--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Ṣanʻāʼ (Yemen).

Ṣanʻāʼ (Yemen)--History--Early works to 1800.

Buildings--Yemen (Republic)--Ṣanʻāʼ--Early works to 1800.

Buildings.

Yemen (Republic)--Ṣanʻāʼ.

Physical Description:

34 pages ; 28 cm.

Other Title:

Description of Ṣanʻāʼ.

Place of Publication:

Ardmore, PA : American Institute for Yemeni Studies ; Tucson, AZ : Distributed by the Middle East Studies Association of North America, [2001]

Notes:

Text is a selection from the author's "Al-manshūrat al-jaliyyah," manuscript work held in the library of the Great Mosque of Ṣanʻāʼ.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-34).

OCLC:

51643318