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Historia Jemanae sub Hasano Pascha (History of Yemen under Hasan Pasha) is the translation into Latin, and a critical edition, of an Arabic history of the reign of Ottoman governor Hasan Pasha in Yemen in the 16th century, written by his contemporary, ʻAmir ibn Muhammad al-Ruʻami (or al-Du’ami). The original work in Arabic is entitled al-Rawd al-hasan fi akhbar sayir mawlana sahib al-sa’adah al-Basha Hasan fi ayyam wilayatih bi-iqlim Yaman (Agreeable gardens or the sojourn of Lord Hasan Pasha during his governorship of Yemen). The work was ...