Lightning Over Yemen: A History of the Ottoman Campaign in Yemen, 1596-71(Library of Ottoman Studies)

Series: Library of Ottoman Studies

The military campaign of the Ottomans, when they entered the region of Yemen in the mid-16th century, was chronicled by Qutb al-Din al-Nahrawali, a scholar charged by an Ottoman general to document his army's progress. This book makes this 16th-century Ottoman source document available in English for the first time.