


Map of Yemen drawn by Carsten Niebuhr for Franz Anton Schraembl’s Allgemeiner Großer Atlas (1789)



Map of the north-western part of the Republic of Yemen, showing cities, roads, and main tribal divisions



One of the historical houses of the Ḥaydar family in Sufyān
photo courtesy of the ḥaydar family


Sufyān’s signature Mountain, Jabal Maflūq, as seen from the public highway in Sufyān
author’s photo, 2004


The public road in ʿAmrān governorate
author’s photo, 2006





Aḥmad b. Qāʾid Ibn Ḥaydar, d. 1987
photo courtesy of the ḥaydar family


Ḥaydar b. Aḥmad Ibn Ḥaydar, d. 1982
photo courtesy of the ḥaydar family


Ḥaydar b. Aḥmad Ibn Ḥaydar (second from left) during his military training for the ndf in Lebanon in the early 1980s. To his left and right members of other influential shaykhly lineages of ʿIyāl Surayḥ and Dahm of Bakīl active in the ndf
photo courtesy of the ḥaydar family


Ḥāmis b. Aḥmad Ibn Ḥaydar, d. 1983
photo courtesy of the ḥaydar family


Mujāhid b. Aḥmad Ibn Ḥaydar in 1988, wearing the uniform of a First Lieutenant
photo courtesy of the ḥaydar family


Mujāhid Ḥaydar, 1990s
photo courtesy of the ḥaydar family


Mujāhid with Yāsīr, one of his sons
photo courtesy of the ḥaydar family


Mujāhid in Syria, early 2000s
photo courtesy of the ḥaydar family


Dīwān in the Ḥaydar family’s house in Wāsiṭ al-Ḍalʿa: members of the qawm
photo courtesy of the ḥaydar family


Mujāhid in Cairo, 2018
photo courtesy of the ḥaydar family

