In spite of numerous studies, the mechanisms for the rifting, uplifting, and volcanism on the African plate remain enigmatic. The most popular hypotheses proposed for explaining these tectonic phenomena involve edge-driven small-scale mantle convection and the thermal or dynamic…
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Despite decades of archaeological excavations in the western Wādī Hadramūt and its tributaries, when compared to its neighbors in Southwestern Arabia, the Pre-Islamic kingdom of Hadramūt is poorly understood. The interior Wādī Hadramūt of the Islamic period is even less well kno…
This dissertation examines the social and historical circumstances and the Qur'anic justifications for implementing, executing and governing the practice of war in seventh century Arabia. Several foci are topics of concern: the role of the charismatic prophet, the life and times…
This work investigates the adaptive strategies that facilitated the intensification of settlement and trade that occurred between 1100 and 600 BCE in Southeastern Arabia and the ways in which we can use ceramic evidence to investigate them. The ceramic evidence shows that the pr…
This dissertation examines the slave trade from East Africa to the Arabian Gulf and the role of the African diaspora in the Gulf economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, this study attempts to present an analytical framework for understanding …
Using the Wadi Sana watershed of Hadramawt Governate, Yemen as a case study, this dissertation examines how environmental and social factors structured the origins of irrigation in prehistoric Southwest Arabia. It applies three methods, archaeological survey, geomatics, and ethn…
Wahhabism was a revivalist movement that emerged in central Arabia around the middle of the twelfth/eighteenth century. Within a few decades it was able to establish a powerful state that controlled most of the Arabian Peninsula. The purpose of this study is to analyze the histo…
"The Handbook of Arabian Medicinal Plants is the first illustrated reference on the uses of plants in the Arabian Peninsula. It documents and preserves the existing knowledge in a region where social patterns are rapidly changing. The book emphasizes the need for preserving soci…
