الزواج في اليمن القديم : دراسة إثنوأثرية

Abstract EN

This study contests the claim of some contemporary historians concerning the issue of polyandry and its practice in the South of the Arabian Peninsula, relying on classical narratives and on a small-scale inscriptions to support their claim of the common practice of this type of marriage in ancient Yemen.

The research was divided into an introduction and four sections which dealt with the concept of marriage, the opinions of researchers and scholars, the Musnad inscriptions, and marriage in ancient Yemen respectively.

The findings suggest that the archaeological data and the Yemeni heritage do not provide any explicit evidence on the practice of polyandry during the overall history of ancient Yemen.