المؤرخ عبد الواسع بن يحيى الواسعي (1295-1379هـ/1878-1959م) وكتابـــه (فرجة الهموم والحزن في حوادث تاريخ اليمن) " دراســـة تاريخيــة....تحليلية "
Abstract
By: Associate Professor, Amat Al-Ghafour Al-Ameer, Department of History and International Relations, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Sana'a University
The Yemen history suffers from a national methodology, which is academically followed in writing the history, the absence of a clear strategy of higher studies that takes into account the diversity of specialists in the field of research, as well as the absence of national a national law for which resolves the ownership of the natinal historical and cultural heritage, which faces many physical and scientific threats.
Undoubtedly, the historical period which the historian, Abdulwas'e Bin Yahya Al-Was'iy (1295 – 1379 H/1878 – 19559AD) had experienced, had a great effect on polishing him as a scholar and a histirist. A number of factors had affected his intellectual product and on raising his status as a historist, some of which are his closeness to the Zaydi Imams – Yahya Bin Hameed Al-Deen's family – and his direct connection with the different pillars of the state as he is one of the officials in that state through the jobs he had taken up. All his jobs were related to knowledge and education; for example, he was assigned the dean of Dar Al-Oloum (The School of Religious Scinces) in Sana'a for a few years. Under his deanship in such a religious school, the first batch of scholars graduated. In his book, the historist, Al-Was'iy referred to that school, and he mentionted that the Imam Yahya established in Sana'a a school for the religious scinces and the educated. When a scholar graduated from that school, he was usually sent to a village as a teacher. A large number of scholars had graduated from Dar Al-Oloum. The historist, Al-Was'iy was also appointed as Director of Endowment Authority in Zabid for a short period. The book "Views on the Worries and Sadness in the Events of the History of Yemen) represents a long history of Yemen, especially the period in which the historist was a contemporay. Although the historist had written down in his book some of the histories of old Yemen, the Islmaic history, and the history of modern Yemen, the contemporary history had given much attention to it. It had given an image which is almost clear about the Sana'ani society in particular, and some images of the remaining areas of the Yemeni society in general. The book was a truthful mirror that reflects the era of the historist, Al-Was'iy, thereby giving a comprehensive and clear image of the course of events in that period with all its circumistances. It, therefore, helps in clarifying the different viewpoints, which eventually deepened the development of the events. In fact, Al-Was'iy is considered to be one of the prominent models among the historists of his era due to the richness of his historical material and of his profound views and analyses.
