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Yémen - récit traduit de l'arabe yéménite

 AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-F-00197
Authors: Ḥabšūš, Ḥayyim 
Naïm-Sanbar, Samia 
Published in: Arles
Published by: Actes Sud , 1995
Terres d'Aventure
Contents:
In 1893, the Yemeni coppersmith Hayîm Habshûsh (1839-1899) started writing a memoir of his travels with the French epigrapher Joseph Halévy (1827-1917) who had visited Yemen 23 years earlier, i.e. in 1869-1870. (p. 12) Owing to the help of Habshûsh, Halévy was the first European to travel the Jawf and to reach Wâdî Nadjrân, bringing back with him 686 Ancient South Arabian inscriptions. (p. 11)
It was at the suggestion of the Bohemian explorer and epigrapher Eduard Glaser (1855-1908), whom Habshûsh had also assisted, that the Yemeni began writing of his account. Thus, as Samia Naïm-Sanbar suggests in her preface, Glaser played an important role in highlighting Habshûsh's merits in making Halévy's expedition so successful.
In Naïm-Sanbar's opinion, the fact that Habshûsh acceded to Glaser's suggestion is a response to his own 'disappointment' at not having heard from the French scholar after Halévy's return to France. (p. 14) -->
'By proposing to Habshûsh to write the account of his journey with Halévy, Glaser would have sought, in a way, to restore the truth and to settle his accounts with the European scientific community, which, until his death, passed over his own work in silence.' (p. 14)
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