Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- A Note on Translation -- Introduction -- PART ONE THE POETICS OF HUMAYNI VERSE -- Chapter One: Defining the Humayni Poem -- Origins -- Parts of the Poem -- Music -- Chapter Two: Dialect in Humayni Poetry -- Humayni and Humor -- Code-Switching -- The "Safinah Circle" and Heteroglossia -- Conclusions -- PART TWO HUMAYNI POETRY IN THE YEMENI CULTURAL AND LITERARY LANDSCAPE -- Chapter Three: A Golden Age of Humayni Poetry -- Formal Poetic Patronage -- Informal Poetic Patronage -- Qat, Coffee, Tobacco, and Wine -- Weddings -- Madhhab Partisanship and Humayni Poetry -- Chapter Four: the Status of Humayni Poetry -- The Decline of Arabic Literature-Yemeni Views -- Hazl -- Composition and Collection -- Inspiration -- The "Safinah Circle" and Inspiration -- The Prestige of Humayni Poetry -- PART THREE SHABAZIAN POETRY -- Chapter Five: R. Salim al-Shabazi and the Shabaziyyat -- The Life of R. Salim al-Shabazi -- Al-Shabazi's Poetry: the Serri-Tobi Manuscripts -- The Roots of the Shabazian Efflorescence -- The Prestige Poem in Focus -- Conclusion -- Chapter Six: Shabazian Eroticism, Kabbalah and Dor De'ah -- The Spring and the Snake -- Esoteric Interpretation: Yahya Qorah's Commentaries on the Diwan -- The Problem of the Exoteric Interpretation of Shabazian Poetry -- Dor de'ah and Shabazian Poetry -- Conclusion -- PART FOUR ḤUMAYNĪ AND MODERNITY -- Chapter Seven: Humayni Poetry and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Yemen -- A Strange Encounter in the Poet?s Paradise -- Popular Culture and Neo-Tribal Poetry -- The Four Styles -- Revolutionary Humayni Poetry -- Continuity in Modern Humayni Poetry -- Mutahhar al-Iryani-the Apotheosis of Humayni? -- 'Abdallah Salam Naji and the Popular -- Naji al-Hamidi: Neo-Tribal Poetry at the Close of the Twentieth Century -- Conclusions.

Chapter Eight: Shabazi in Tel Aviv -- Formative Yemeni Israeli Culture -- The Yemeni and the Mizrahi -- The Poetry of Disillusionment -- Conclusions -- Conclusion -- Appendix One: fie Word "Humayni" -- Appendix Two: Humayni Form, Structure, and Prosody -- Appendix firee: Orthography and Prosody in ST -- Bibliography -- References in Arabic -- References in Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew -- References in European Languages -- Index.