It’s Yemen. Does that surprise you? That may be because you’re a little light on your knowledge of the fifth century AD. Glen Bowersock, a great historian located at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, is our guest in this podcast as we discuss his new book The Throne of Adulis, about the Jewish rulers and people of Yemen who ultimately were overwhelmed by the newly risen force of Islam. The world was full of more things than were dreamt of in your college course on the history of the pre-Islamic middle east.