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by :;. D. Goitein o.. titled "Al. ir'Floyyi. n Ha. ' 2ºiburriim
jhel HaYchudim B'Erotz To zan: &"' -
The
%; o uunal Life of
the Jew, of Y"on. " Of those throe, by far the moat
helpful und reliuble io the last, the materla1 in it
hl viug bcoxt obtained frcm many Yru uni informants in
I: rael. 1Iowovvr, none of tijbca aourreo -- nor any of
the others to which I referred - gave me sufficient
unUerut :. if; of the
. structure and functioning of Jowich
uocioty within the wider soc. ia l setting; no that I had
to provide further material-from say oozy infornanto,
toj, ethor pith o.. anthropo1oLicul from- work for the
intarprotrati4ý, n &u: al an. 1y-io of the facto.
. o. tion of the .1 ws in Yemeni
Yemon wus a theocratic uta a, ruled by the Im", '*
, who waa both Epir. tual and temporal ru)erl 'und head of
the Zeidi sect, tthich rose to power in the twelfth
CcAtuzy. . Chriation Era),
It was divided into a number of provinces, ruled
by governors respcnuib1o to the Trau:. ach provinc© WOO
divided into c. number or major dint ricts each under a
': 3heikh' or 'mill, which in turn were divided into
szxbll©r diotricts under ';, heikh: '. The s,. all districts
'. in thin chapter I use tho past tcnco o~ ly, as the
situation described here no longer exists - there are
no JOWu left in Yewel:. Furthcr. =ro, vorne of ay co=onts
ou the social atructuro of YoQon may no lon or describe
the situation in that country.