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	Yemen Old Splendour Tours
		Zabid is located Tihamah Plain which made it a conjuncture point amongst the Tihamah cities on one hand and the other Yemeni cities on the other hand.
		Zabid is about 100km south of Al-Hodeidah on the highway to Taiz, it sits in –between mountain and sea flanked by two great wadis, Wadi Zabid to the south and Wadi Rima’a to the north.
		Zabid was a center for the weaving –dyeing and tanning industries, The facades of houses tell a story of a glorious past.
	www.yostours.com.ye /mon_hod.htm (2599 words)

	Zabid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zabid, (also spelled Zebid), is a town in western Yemen.
		Zabid has been declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO.
		In 2000, Zabid was listed on the List of World Heritage in Danger; the listing was made on the behest of the Yemeni government due to a state of poor upkeep and very poor conservation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zabid (129 words)

	American Institute for Yemeni Studies
		Zabid flourished as an important administrative and cultural center in the mediaeval Islamic period, and survives today as a modest provincial town.
		For the 13th-15th century period, at the height of Zabid's fame, remains of mediaeval houses unearthed beneath what was the old city wall surviving in 1962, clearly document a time when ordinary neighborhoods stretched beyond the last city limits.
		Apart from the daily curiosity of foreign tourists, immense interest in the Project is shown by the dignitaries and ordinary citizens of Zabid, who express pride in the preservation of a significant remnant of their cultural heritage.
	www.aiys.org /projects/zabid.html (2494 words)

	Historical city needs more support to attract investment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Zabid was the capital of Yemen from the 13th to the 15th century and played an important role in the Arab and Muslim world for centuries because of its Islamic university.
		Zabid is a city renowned for its religious and political significance.
		Zabid lies amid fertile agricultural land on the main coastal route and is inhabited by a relatively well-educated populace.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=45417 (779 words)

	Zabid
		Town of western Yemen with 65,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate), situated 16 km from the Red Sea and on the foot of the Yemeni mountains.
		During its heyday, Zabid's economy was based on weaving, dyeing, tanneries and leatherwork.
		989: Zabid is conquered and burned by the tribe of Banu Yafur.
	i-cias.com /e.o/zabid.htm (187 words)

	Sights of Yemen
		Zabid was founded in the 9th century AC during the Abbasid rule.
		Zabid was a famous center of Islam and a major stop for caravans.
		In fact, Zabid still is a city renowned for its Islamic schools and universities, which go back as far as 802AC.
	www.al-bab.com /dubaitours/sights.htm (985 words)

	Archived conservation news articles on Zabid
		In the town of Zabid, where Amat is from, marriage is believed to be the defining event of a girlâs life, at the expense of an education.
		Particularly in the area of Zabid, a part of Hodeidah province, there is a multiplicity of songs accompanied by dances called shami, Yamani, serar etc....
		Zabid was the capital of Yemen from the 13th to the 15th century.
	conservation.mongabay.com /news/Zabid.htm (1468 words)

	Saving architectural heritage in Zabid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A source in the General Organization for the Protection of the Historic Cities of Yemen said that 13 historical houses in Zabid had been greatly damaged by rainwater along with 12 houses built in the modern style of Yemeni architecture.
		The mosque was built by Mohammad Bin Zyad, founder of the Zyadi state established in the first quarter of the third century of the Hijri calendar.
		Zabid has approximately 29 mosques of which the most famous is Al-Asha’er Mosque dating back to the history of prophet’s follower Abu Mosa Al-Asha’ari who established it in the early days of Islam.
	www.yobserver.com /cgi-bin/yobserver/exec/view.cgi/1/6451/printer (195 words)

	Journal of Science & Technology
		Wadi Zabid's climate is generally described as tropical with a rainy summer and dry winter.
		Wadi Zabid traditional irrigation system consists of 16 main supply canals, which divert flash floods and base flow from the Wadi to the fields by means of deflectors or dykes crossing the Wadi bed.
		Wadi Zabid irrigation system has 5 diversion structures with 9 head regulators (see figure 1.3) serving 16 canals (see table 1.3), which allow the available spate flows to be allocated in accordance with the traditional water rights [4].
	www.ust.edu /sj/Sediment.htm (4420 words)

	Viewzone: Zabid, Yemen
		Zabid was a laid back town with many shai stops and wide, partially paved streets.
		Named after its first governor and founder, Zabid was one of the oldest towns in Yemen and one of the first to convert to Islam during the lifetime of Mohammed [PBUH].
		Zabid borders the coffee region of Yemen and a major part of the suq still trades in this crop.
	www.viewzone.com /yemen/y-page25.html (706 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		And in Zabid, almost a millennium ago, the scholar Ahmad abu Musa al-Jaladi dazzled students from the new enquiring world of Islam with the resurrected intricacies of "al-Jabr" or algebra.
		Zabid was founded in 820AD and was destroyed four times before, in the 13th century, becoming, briefly, Yemen's capital under the brilliant Rasulids whose architects invented, among many other things, the cupola.
		Zabid's 14,000 inhabitants still have five schools, but the university died in 1950 when Yemen's despotic ruling Imam grabbed its endowment funds for himself.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4248384,00.html (1554 words)

	The Big Mosque in Zabid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		At the time of the first Islamic call, several mosques stretched all over Zabid for praying and spreading the knowledge and thoughts of Islam.
		It is to be regarded a historical witness and a living indicator on the religious and scientific position of Zabid city.
		The whole minaret is considered a typical specimen of the other numerous minarets built later all around the town/ city of Zabid.
	www.yemeninfo.gov.ye /ENGLISH/CULTURE/Zabid.htm (471 words)

	Zabid -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		It lies on the bank of the Wadi Zabid and at the eastern fringe of the Tihamah coastal plain, about 10 miles (16 km) from the Red Sea coast.
		An ancient Yemeni centre, Zabid was refounded in AD 820 by the 'Abbasids under Muhammad ibn Ziyad, emissary of the caliph al-Ma'mun.
		In Yemen lasting movements were being shaped by the close of the 9th century; the imam al-Hadi, a theocratic arbiter-ruler of traditional type, founded the 'Alid Zaydi dynasty in Sa'dah of northern Yemen.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9078175?tocId=9078175 (376 words)

	sufi.html
		This season's work at Zabid between December '91 and February '92 was sponsored by the Royal Ontario Museum as usual, with significant funding from the National Geographic Society for the excavations and a supporting grant from the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Yemen for restoration work.
		The work promised to provide signficant information about Zabid and the transition from rural to industrial land use on the outskirts of the city in the 9th century.
		This was an opportunity not to be missed; the underground water conduits of Zabid have high repute in the folklore of the city, but no one had ever been able to show me where they were.
	www.aiys.org /webdate/keal.html (2167 words)

	Conservation news for Zabid
		Zabid city in Hudaidah province was the first area infected by the fever last December, then it spread slowly in other areas and moved to neighbouring provinces...
		Since dengue fever was first detected on 16 December in the small city of Zabid in Hudaidah, 124 cases of infection have been reported.
		The disease was first detected on December 16 in the small city of Zabid near Hodeidah.
	conservation.mongabay.com /2005/feb/Zabid.htm (415 words)

	Zabid’s history - A window to yesteryear - community - Yemen Times
		The schools of Zabid taught the interpretations of all Islamic sects, Safie’, Maliki, Hanafi, Hanbali and Ismaeli.
		Zabid was a center for weaving, dying and tanning industries.
		Since Zabid was a capital of several successive dynasties and an important center from time to time, several locations around it were under its authority.
	www.yementimes.com /article.shtml?i=798&p=community&a=2 (354 words)

	ReliefWeb » Professional Resources » Vacancies
		The Yemeni historic town of Zabid, whose religious, military and political past is important in the context of South-Arabic and Islamic civilisations, is rapidly giving way to modern construction.
		In September 2001, experts of the World Heritage Centre undertook a mission to Zabid focussing on an assessment -a Quick Scan- of the urban heritage and subsequent priority actions to be undertaken by the Yemeni authorities to reverse the downward trend of deterioration and loss of authenticity.
		The purpose is to create a "Heritage House" in Zabid and to install a specialised unit for the operation and the follow-up on projects, able to handle and control the future development of the Historic Town in a sustainable manner.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/res.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/92e495ed101675bbc1256dd100409ccf (1773 words)

	Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, Vol. 5, No. 4-Bionomics of anopheline vectors in Zabid District, Al-Hodeidah ...
		Bionomics of anopheline vectors in Zabid District, Al-Hodeidah Governorate, Republic of Yemen
		That, in addition to the presence of sporozoites in their salivary glands, are of epidemiological importance in the dynamics of mosquito-borne pathogens responsible for the continued transmission of malaria in the Zabid district.
		Further investigation is needed in the Republic of Yemen to study the mosquito-host feeding preferences and to assess the epidemiological effectiveness of the malaria vector, as it is the blood meal identification of a vector that leads to its incrimination.
	www.emro.who.int /Publications/EMHJ/0504/07.htm (2168 words)

	The historians and Al-Sabout in Zabid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The other being of economic features, in the sense of planting the trees in the territory of suitable climatic conditions; adaptable soil; and abundant working labor who were able to extend the dimensions and size of the grown territories around Tehama.
		Some historians provided a splendid description of the "Sabout" days in Zabid, with the care-taking of the Rasouli State for the season, through their efforts of encouraging the plantation of palm trees.
		The scholars of Sana'a usually meet their counter parts of Zabid in order to complete on reciting poems about date-palm picnics, the description of roses and riping dates (brownish and yellowish colors).
	www.yemeninfo.gov.ye /ENGLISH/panorama/historians.htm (1020 words)

	Ceramic Petrography in Historical Archaeology
		The objective of the project was to examine the nature of the core-periphery relationships of Zabid and its hinterland, the political, economic and cultural impacts of Zabid and peripheral regions.
		The city of Zabid, according to ceramic evidence, was an area of farms and villages until the 9th century, which began the city's 700 year reign as administrative and commercial center of Yemen.
		With the Ottoman conquest of Yemen and the region of the Indian Ocean (which had been the primary source of wealth for Zabid), Zabid was lowered to provincial status and Hays produced only coarse wares.
	www.peacedividend.com /who/Jessica/petrography1.html (2439 words)

	Anne Meneley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The dynamic, strong-willed women she met in Zabid, an ancient town of 10,000 people in Yemen, bear no resemblance to the Western stereotypes of oppressed, veiled Middle Eastern women, according to Meneley.
		Meneley conducted field work in 1989 and 1990 in Zabid, where she immersed herself in the hectic social life of Zabidi women.
		In Zabid, she was quickly integrated into the daily exchange of competitive hospitality.
	www.lclark.edu /~public/NEWS/970618meneley.html (281 words)

	CPAmedia.com: A Taste of the Tihama
		Zabid in particular became an internationally renowned centre of learning--it's main institution, the University of Zabid, having been founded in the mid-8th century, more than a century before the greatest of all centres of Islamic scholarship, Al-Azhar University in Cairo.
		Relations with the Yemen were maintained, and the sons or rich families often returned to study at the mosque-colleges of Zabid and Bayt al-Faqih, sometimes accompanied by wives of Malay, Indonesian and even Chinese origin.
		Heartened by this discovery, I pressed on to Zabid, the cultural capital of the Tihama and home to one of the great centres of Shafi'i tradition.
	www.cpamedia.com /history/tihama (2306 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The target population are the farmers, farm workers and their families who would benefit from the program over a total area of 90,000 ha (covering the seven main spate irrigation systems in Yemen), of which an area of 26,000 ha would be covered under the proposed Phase I project.
		In order to minimize groundwater depletion (which although barely to be linked to the project is nonetheless the most significant environmental problem in the Zabid area), the EMP would support a groundwater management system which would rely on data collected from the monitoring of water levels and quality in the project area.
		The canal system in Zabid is not modernized and water is taken directly from turnouts along the canals and then distributed from field to field in a traditional manner.
	www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2000/09/12/000094946_00082305314392/Rendered/INDEX/multi_page.txt (12210 words)

	11/29/00 -- UNESCO Adds Three Vulnerable Sites to Danger List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary in Senegal, the Historic Town of Zabid in Yemen, and the Fort and Shalamar Gardens in Lahore, Pakistan, are the new additions.
		Zabid was an important city in the Arab and Muslim world for centuries because of its Islamic university.
		A mission of experts found that around 40 percent of the old city's houses have been replaced by concrete buildings, and other houses and the ancient souk are in a deteriorating state.
	forests.org /archive/asia/unaddsth.htm (827 words)

	THE CITY OF ZABID, DJOUDJ NATIONAL SANCTUARY, THE FORT AND SHALAMAR GARDENS ADDED TO THE LIST OF WORLD HERITAGE IN ...
		ormer capital of Yemen, from the 13th to the 15th century, Zabid was a city of great importance in the Arab and Muslim world for many centuries because of its Islamic university.
		The Yemeni government has asked for Zabid to be inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger to facilitate its preservation.
		Situated in the Senegal River delta, the Djoudj Sanctuary is a wetland of 16,000 hectares, which form a vital but fragile sanctuary for 1.5 million birds, such as the white pelican, the purple heron, the African spoonbill, the great egret and the cormorant.
	www.unesco.org /bpi/eng/unescopress/2000/00-129e.shtml (529 words)

	Sediment Problems of Irrigation Canals: Field Studies to Assess the Changes in Canals Profiles and Cross Sections
		Wadi Zabid is one of the main agricultural Wadis in the Tihama Plain.
		Wadi Zabid is the second major Wadi after Wadi Mawr in the Tihama plain (see table 1.1).
		In order to improve Wadi Zabid irrigation system (by reducing the sedimentation problem through the irrigation canals and minimizing the sediment clearance costs) the following recommendations are made:
	www.ust.edu /journal/sediment.php (4401 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Though addressing these issues is important to protect the populations living in the wadis, guarantee the stability of their production systems and ensure the sustainability of the proposed investments in spate irrigation, only some minor impacts on soil quality could be expected from the proposed project.
		A second major challenge is to improve the efficiency of public sector resource allocation and use in irrigation: this will require improved value for money of the recurrent expenditures in the sector, and focussing further public investment on high return projects where there is ownership and cost sharing by the beneficiaries.
		Community Development Component 4 PID (a) studies to identify priorities of needed social infrastructures in Zabid and Tuban areas based on consultation with the communities and active participation of the population.
	www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2000/06/27/000094946_00060905451166/Rendered/INDEX/multi_page.txt (4565 words)

	The Road of Arabia Discoveries \| culture \| archeology
		A trip to Yemen is considered an experience of a way of life long since lost to the modern world, a dream destination of unusual record, a very rich mixture of archaeological, cultural, traditional arts, natural and historical heritage, a picture of a different age.
		Arrive into the medieval city of Sana'a, the capital of Yemen considered to be the birthplace of Arab nationhood, at the airport you will be met and transferred to Hilltown hotel for a two-night stay.
		Depart Khawkha for Hodeidah via Zabid, an important early Islamic center of learning, where algebra is said to have been invented.
	www.infohub.com /TRAVEL/SIT/sit_pages/3077.html (917 words)

	March (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		We continue moving south until we reach Zabid, an old center of learning in the Muslim world.
		Within every mosque in Zabid is a Qu'ran school - the final exam requires reciting the entire Qu'ran from memory.
		The University of Zabid gained worldwide recognition; the word 'algebra' is attributed to one of Zabid's teachers, Ahmad al-Jaladi who taught Al-Jabr (certainly this discipline is much older but the Arabs preserved and retransmitted it to the West).
	www.fullpassport.com /Trip2002/Diary/mar-22.html (301 words)

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