Dr. E.D. (Kate) Pukhovaia

Assistant Professor
Islam and Arabic
Religious Studies
e.d.pukhovaia@uu.nl

Publications

2025

Scholarly publications

Pukhovaia, K. (2025). Contesting the Zaydi Political Tradition in Early Modern Yemen: an Edition of Imam Yaḥyā Sharaf al-Dīn’s Will of 18 Ramadan 933/27 June 1527. Shii Studies Review, 9, 127-160. [DOI] [Portal]
Pukhovaia, K. (2025). Focus session ‘Zaydi governance in Yemen between legal theory and political practice’: Introduction. In S. Lischi (Ed.), Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies: Papers from the fifty-seventh meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, 27–29 June 2024 (Vol. 54, pp. 263). Archaeopress Publishers of British Archaeological Reports. https://archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.php/PSAS/article/view/3229
Pukhovaia, K. (2025). Transfer of power in the Sharaf al‑Dīn imamate (912–980/1506–1573): theory and practice. In S. Lischi (Ed.), Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies: Papers from the fifty-seventh meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, 27–29 June 2024 (Vol. 54, pp. 281–285). Archaeopress Publishers of British Archaeological Reports. https://archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.php/PSAS/article/view/2632

Popularising publications

Pukhovaia, K. (2025). Het zaidisme: een positie tussen soennisme en sjiisme? ZemZem: Tijdschrift over het Midden-Oosten, Noord-Afrika en islam, 2025(2), 16-24.

2024

Scholarly publications

Pukhovaia, K. (2024). 2023. Kerstin Hünefeld, Dhimma im Kontext des zaiditischen Jemen. Imam Yaḥyā H ̣amīd al-Dīn (1869–1948), die Juden:Jüdinnen von Sanaa und die Aushandlung islamrechtlich legitimierter Regierungsführung, Berlin/Boston, Walter de Gruyter, ser. “Studies on Modern Yemen”, 13, xiv + 289 p. Ill. Hardcover. ISBN 978-3-11-056215-6. DOI: 10.1515/9783110563603. Nouvelles Chroniques du manuscrit au Yémen, 19, 16-18.

Popularising publications

Pukhovaia, K. (2024). Reshaping Early Modern Yemeni Politics: Imam Sharaf al-Din Yahya and the Sixteenth Century Imamate. The British Yemeni Society Journal, 31/32, 12-16.
Pukhovaia, K. (2024). Yemen though the Dutch Lens. Exhibition https://webpresentations.universiteitleiden.nl/s/yemen-eng/page/home

2023

Scholarly publications

Pukhovaia, E. (2023). Jaḥjā b. al-Ḥusain b. al-Muʾajjad al-Jamanī’s “Anbāʾ az-Zaman fī Aḫbār al-Jaman”: Anfänge des Zaiditentums in Jemen; Textkritische Teilausgabe mit Übersetzungsprobe, Kommentar und Einführung in die historische jemenisch-zaiditische Literatur, written by Mohamed Madi. Shii Studies Review, 7(1-2), 413 - 415. [DOI] [Repository]
Pukhovaia, K. (2023). Sayyids, Tribal Kinship, and the Imamate in Zaydi Yemen under Imam Yaḥyā Sharaf al-Dīn (d. 965/1558). Medieval Encounters, 29(5-6), 442-463. [DOI] [Repository]
Pukhovaia, E., & Hünefeld, K. (2023). State-building, Political Thought and the Other in Muslim Imperial Peripheries. al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā, 31, 220-223. [DOI]
Pukhovaia, E. (2023). The Lords of Kawkabān and the Transformation of the State in Early Modern Yemen (15th–17th Centuries). Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 66(3-4), 289–317. [DOI] [Repository]

Popularising publications

Pukhovaia, K. (2023). Early Modern State Development in Yemen. Web publication/site, Leiden Arabic Humanities and Islamic Thought Blog . https://www.leidenislamblog.nl/articles/early-modern-state-development-in-yemen
Brown, J. R., & Pukhovaia, K. (2023). Miracles of Mary between Ethiopia and the Arabic-speaking world. Web publication/site, Leiden Arabic Humanities and Islamic Thought Blog . https://www.leidenarabichumanitiesblog.nl/articles/miracles-of-mary-between-ethiopia-and-the-arabic-speaking-world

2017

Scholarly publications

Pukhovaia, E. (2017). A Zaydī Multitext Manuscript from the Glaser Collection (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin): MS Glaser 37. Shii Studies Review, 1(1-2), 175-193. [DOI]