Daniel Varisco
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 581228 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Daniel Varisco |
| PRENOMES | Daniel |
| SOBRENOME | Varisco |
| ASSINATURA | VARISCO D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Hofstra University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1307-7977 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 111 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 111 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Kitāb al-Safar
The sixth sultan of Rasulid Yemen, al-Malik al-Afḍal al-ʿAbbās, wrote the Kitāb al-Safar wa-mā yakūn fīhi min al-tadbīr in the mid-fourteenth century as a guide to the best ways to manage travel at that time, whether on land or by sea. In this unique work, the sultan describes common problems encountered by travelers due to weather, fatigue, illness, hunger, and thirst. He recommends food, drinks, and medicinal plants to treat different condition…
Agricultural crops in South Arabia/Yemen in the first millennium ce
Villages of the Fayyum
The Villages of the Fayyum: A Thirteenth-Century Register of Rural, Islamic Egypt. Edited and translated by Yossef Rapoport and Ido Shahar. The Medieval Countryside, vol. 18. Turnhout: Brepols, 2018. Pp. viii + 260. €90. Rural Economy and Tribal Society in Islamic Egypt: A Study of al-Nābulsī's Villages of the Fayyum. By Yossef Rapoport. The Medieval Countryside, vol. 19. Turnhout: Brepols, 2018. Pp. xxix + 285. €110
Reading Rasūlid Maps
While there is a tradition of Islamic world maps and geographic depictions of direction to the Kaʿba in Mecca, relatively few detailed maps of individual Islamic realms have been studied. In an early 14th-century tax ledger compiled for the Rasūlid sultan al-Malik al-Muʾayyad Dāwūd (d. 721/1321), there is a map of the fortresses ( ḥuṣūn ), major towns, and ports of the areas controlled and taxed, as well as individual maps of Aden, Taʿizz, al-Jan…
Introduction
Traditional Yemeni Scholarship amidst Political Turmoil and War
Traditional Yemeni Scholarship amidst Political Turmoil and War: Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. al-Muṭahhar al-Manṣūr (1915–2016) and His Personal Library. By Sabine Schmidtke. Series Islamo-Arabica, vol. 1. Cordoba: Cordoba University Press, 2018. Pp. 213 + 87 (Ar.), illus. €40
Bedouin Ethnobotany
Bedouin Ethnobotany: Plant Concepts and Uses in a Desert Pastoral World. By James P. Mandaville. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011. Pp. xv + 397. $55
L’Arabie marchande
L’Arabie marchande: État et commerce sous les sultans rasūlides du Yémen (626–858/1229–1454). By Éric Vallet. Bibliothèque historique des pays d’Islam, vol. 1. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2010. Pp. 872. €90
Wathāʾiq madīnat al-Qaṣr bi-l-wāḥāt al-Dakhla
Wathāʾiq madīnat al-Qaṣr bi-l-wāḥāt al-Dakhla: Maṣdarān li-taʾrīkh Miṣr fī l-ʿaṣr al-ʿuthmānī. Silsilat Dirāsāt Wathāʾiqiyya. By Rudolph Peters. Cairo: Maṭbaʿat al-ʿĀmma li-Dār al-Kutub wa-l-Wathāʾiq al-Qawmiyya, 2011. Pp. 610
Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies
Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies: Studies on Diplomacy and Diplomatics . Edited by Frédéric Bauden and Malika Dekkiche. Islamic History and Civilization, vol. 161. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp. xxvii + 881. $179, €149 (cloth); $162, €135 (ebook
Maritime Lexicon
A Maritime Lexicon: Arabic Nautical Terminology in the Indian Ocean. By Abdulrahman al Salimi and Eric Staples. Studies on Ibadism and Oman, vol. 11. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2019. Pp. 641, illus. €88
Shipped but Not Sold
Shipped but Not Sold: Material Culture and the Social Protocols of Trade during Yemen's Age of Coffee. By Nancy Um. Perspectives on the Global Past. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2017. Pp. xiv + 198, illus. $64
Al-Malik al-Afḍal al-ʿAbbās b. ʿAlī b. Dāwūd al-Rasūlī, Bughyat al-fallāḥīn fī al-ashjār al-muthmira wa-l-rayāḥīn
L'objet des désirs des agriculteurs au sujet des arbres fruitiers et des plantes odoriférantes
Clonal Diversity, Cultivar Traits, Geographic Dispersal, and the Ethnotaxonomy of Cultivated Qat (Catha edulis, Celastraceae)
Culture Still Matters
Varisco’s Culture Still Matters: Notes from the Field is on the relationship between ethnographic fieldwork and the culture concept in the ongoing debate over the future of anthropology, drawing on the history of both concepts. Despite being the major social science that offers a methodology and tools to understand diverse cultures worldwide, scholars within and outside anthropology have attacked this field for all manner of sins, including foste…
Pumping Yemen Dry
The State of Agriculture Kingdom of Yemen, 1918-1962
Yemen has a rich tradition of agriculture, stemming from the South Arabian kingdoms through the Islamic era. In the 10th century the Yemeni savant al-á ̧¤asan al-HamdÄ nÄ« referred to his homeland as al- Yaman al-khaá ̧ rÄ â (the verdant Yemen) due to its agricultural wealth. Several important treatises and almanacs exist from the Rasulid era (13th-15th centuries). Yemeni scholars, anthropologists and agricultural experts have written about Yemen…
Agriculture in the Northern Highlands of Yemen
The most fertile part of the Arabian Peninsula is the southwestern corner known historically as Yemen. The primary occupation of Yemen’s tribes over the centuries has been sedentary agriculture, stemming back to the pre-Islamic South Arabian kingdoms. Up until the revolution that toppled the Zaydī imamate in 1962, agricultural activities had change little over the centuries. After the revolution and civil war in the north, development aid poured …
Darwin and Dunya
Darwin’s theory of evolution caused considerable controversy among conservative Christians, but his ideas were not immediately available to Muslims. The first Arabic excerpts of Darwin’s work were made in 1876 by a Syrian Christian who was influenced by pro-creationist Protestant missionaries. This article provides a brief historical overview of the debate among Muslim scholars about Darwin’s theory of evolution. The range of reactions to Darwini…
David Cook, Contemporary Muslim apocalyptic literature
Islamophobia
IMuslims
Religious communities on the internet
Marnia Lazreg
Anouar Majid, A Call for heresy
On The Meaning of Chewing The Significance of Qāt (Catha Edulis )in the Yemen Arab Republic
So writers the British administrator Harold Ingrams about the chewing of leaves from the qāt tree in Yemen. Qāt is the Arabic term for Catha edulis , a species of the Celastracae cultivated in the highlands of southwestern Arabia for at least the last six centuries. The leaves of this tree are chewed as a stimulant, producing a feeling of euphoria followed by depression
Making “Medieval” Islam Meaningful
The Agricultural Marker Stars in Yemeni Folklore
Yemini farmers refer to a traditional star calendar, to define the seasons and timing of agricultural activities, as the « agricultural markers ». Modern almanachs depict this as a system of twenty-eight distinct star periods, and relate these to the lunar zodiacs, the well-known astronomical model of the twenty-eight lunar stations. This association appears to be relatively recent, since a variety of other systems for the Yemeni « agricultural m…
Yemen's Tribal Idiom
The notion of an Arab tribe has been widely debated by anthropologists and historians. Whatever its relevance in specific social and historical contexts, it often serves as idiom of alleged genealogical descent. Arab scholars created a genre of nasab (genealogy) literature, most notably that of Ibn al-Kalbī (d. 819 ce). There is a substantial literature in Arabic discussing the terms used to describe tribal descent groups, but it is difficult to …
Islamophobia
Leif Manger, The Hadrami Diaspora
The present book is thus the end result of a rather long anthropological journey, filled with interesting moments of discovery but also a feeling of anxiety as I struggled with my inclination to deal with the "totality" of Hadarami (sic) immigration history: My anthropological instincts told me to settle for a discussion of things less speculative, more focused on stories in which we can see real people (x).Before I prepared to live in North Yeme…
September 11
The future of terrace farming in Yemen
The Origin of the anwa' in Arab Tradition
IMuslims
Reading Orientalism
Pars Pro TotoObservation
This essay addresses the suggestion made over a century ago by F. W. Maitland that anthropology must choose between being history and being nothing. At the time Maitland was correct in criticizing the simplistic unilinear evolutionary schemes of Edward Tylor and Lewis Henry Morgan. My own career combines ethnography among Yemeni farmers in the late 1970s with ongoing analysis of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Yemeni agricultural texts, demons…
Muslims and the media in the blogosphere
Metaphors and Sacred History
The genealogy of the Prophet Muhammad was the primary model used by medieval Muslim genealogists in defining Arab tribal structure. This article examines the credibility of both the overall genealogical template and the canonized genealogy of Muhammad's significant ancestors from Abraham. Attention is given to the derivation of tribal segment terms, especially the use of a body metaphor. It is argued that the delineation of Muhammad's genealogy r…
Contesting Realities
Sexual ethics and Islam
The tragedy of a comic
Reading against culture in Edward Said'sCulture and Imperialism
Edward Said is the literary critic most cited by American anthropologists, but there has been relatively little anthropological examination of his concept of culture. Apart from an isolated attempt by Lila Abu-Lughod to 'write against culture', most anthropologists have ignored Said's approach. In Culture and Imperialism, Said draws on Matthew Arnold's 'best of the best' definition, while American anthropologists owe their holistic culture to fel…
A Royal Crop Register from Rasulid Yemen
A ROYAL CROP REGISTER FROM RASULID YEMEN BY DANIEL MARTIN VARISCO Although the history of the Arabian Peninsula is generally associated with a pastoral economy, agriculture has played a domi- nant role in several parts of the area. This is especially the case for Islamic Yemen, where sufficient rainfall and irrigation created a ver- dant landscape known in the medieval period as al-Yaman al- khadra'. The zenith of agricultural productivity in Isl…
Religious communities on the internet
Dancing on the Heads of Snakes in Yemen
Agriculture in al-Hamdānī's Yemen
The area of Yemen has been one of the most productive agricultural regions in the Arab World since the beginning of Islam. This article surveys the available knowledge from Arabic geographical and historical texts on the state of agriculture in Yemen during the early Islamic period up through the 10th century CE. The primary focus is on the work of Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdānī, including translation of a section on Yemeni agriculture from his…
Reflections on Fieldwork in Yemen
In preparation for writing an ethnographic monograph on fieldwork in Yemen, I compare and contrast my field diary, written in 1978–9, with Paul Rabinow’s Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco (1977). The underlying question is what post-fieldwork reflections reflect meaningfully about the immediacy of ethnographic fieldwork? I criticise the reflexivist trope of privileging ‘writing culture’ over the significance of ‘being there’ in the field. Point…
Sharecropping in the Yemen
Medieval Agriculture and Islamic Science
Sayl andghayl
Uber eine anwa -Tradition mit bisher unbekannten Sternnamen. Paul Kunitzsch
On The Meaning of Chewing The Significance of Qāt (Catha Edulis )in the Yemen Arab Republic
So writers the British administrator Harold Ingrams about the chewing of leaves from the qāt tree in Yemen. Qāt is the Arabic term for Catha edulis , a species of the Celastracae cultivated in the highlands of southwestern Arabia for at least the last six centuries. The leaves of this tree are chewed as a stimulant, producing a feeling of euphoria followed by depression
The Rain Periods in Pre-Islamic Arabia
The Qat Factor in North Yemen's Agricultural Development
Jemen
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The Qat Factor in North Yemen's Agricultural Development
Arabian Moons
Arabian Moons: Passages in Time through Yemen, photographs by Maria Maréchaux and Pascal MaréChaux, text by Dominique Champault. Translation of Lunes d’Arabie. 167 pages, 126 photographs. Distributed by Routlege, Chapman & Hall, N.Y. Concept Media, Singapore, 1988. $45.00. - Volume 23 Issue 1
The Arab Gulf States Folklore Centre
While the literature on folklore and traditional culture of the Middle East is quite extensive overall, relatively little has appeared on the Arabian Gulf. Unfortunately, this region has undergone rapid socioeconomic change stimulated by the impact of oil wealth. Much of the traditional way of life in the Gulf, as in the case of pearl diving, has disappeared except in the memories of the older generation. In late 1983 an institution was formed as…
Herb Drugs and Herbalists in the Middle East
Egalität und Klassengesellschaft in Südarabien
Cinq calendriers égyptiens
Al-Ḥarif wa'l-ṣināʿāt fi'l-ḥijāz fi ʿaṣr al-rasūl
Sināʿat al-sufun alshirāʿīya fī al-kuwayt
The future of terrace farming in Yemen
The Origin of the anwa' in Arab Tradition
A Royal Crop Register from Rasulid Yemen
A ROYAL CROP REGISTER FROM RASULID YEMEN BY DANIEL MARTIN VARISCO Although the history of the Arabian Peninsula is generally associated with a pastoral economy, agriculture has played a domi- nant role in several parts of the area. This is especially the case for Islamic Yemen, where sufficient rainfall and irrigation created a ver- dant landscape known in the medieval period as al-Yaman al- khadra'. The zenith of agricultural productivity in Isl…
Herb Drugs and Herbalists in Syria and North Yemen
Texts and Pretexts
Varisco Daniel Martin. Texts and Pretexts : the Unity of the Rasulid State under al-Malik al-Muzaffar. In: Revue du monde musulman et de la Méditerranée, n°67, 1993. Yémen, passé et présent de l'unité, sous la direction de Michel Tuchscherer . pp. 13-24
The Agricultural Marker Stars in Yemeni Folklore
Yemini farmers refer to a traditional star calendar, to define the seasons and timing of agricultural activities, as the « agricultural markers ». Modern almanachs depict this as a system of twenty-eight distinct star periods, and relate these to the lunar zodiacs, the well-known astronomical model of the twenty-eight lunar stations. This association appears to be relatively recent, since a variety of other systems for the Yemeni « agricultural m…
Indigenous plant protection methods in Yemen
Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen. Paul Dresch
Die Natāʾiǧ al-fikar des Šaʿbān ibn Salīm aṣ-Ṣanʿānī Eine jemenitische Gesundheitsfibel aus dem frühen 18. Jahrhundert. Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar
Metaphors and Sacred History
The genealogy of the Prophet Muhammad was the primary model used by medieval Muslim genealogists in defining Arab tribal structure. This article examines the credibility of both the overall genealogical template and the canonized genealogy of Muhammad's significant ancestors from Abraham. Attention is given to the derivation of tribal segment terms, especially the use of a body metaphor. It is argued that the delineation of Muhammad's genealogy r…
Medieval Agriculture and Islamic Science
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