People who flow into the medieval Yemen

Research Project

Project/Area Number	15H06464
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	History of Asia and Africa
Research Institution	Kyushu University
Principal Investigator	Baba Tamon 九州大学, 人文科学研究院, 助教 (70756501)
Project Period (FY)	2015-08-28 – 2017-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Keywords	イエメン / ラスール朝 / アラビア半島 / インド洋 / 東洋史 / 東アフリカ / 奴隷 / イスラーム
Outline of Final Research Achievements	In the medieval Islamic World, various people flew into the economic and political centers. I gathered and read related Arabic documents to find commonality or specialty of Yemen that s situated far away from the centers such as Egypt and Syria. As a result, it is revealed that medieval Yemen accepted people from the Eastern Africa and utilized them as important elements in the society. The rulers used domestic slaves and eunuchs from East Africa positively, and some of them climbed to a high position. Merchants and intellectuals came to Yemen too. On the other hand, people from other regions were rare.