Gravestones from Kārat al-Sanāhiǧa as Epigraphic Monuments of Late Medieval Hadramawt

This article is devoted to a set of epigraphic monuments of the Hadramawt of the late Medieval period, being published for the first time. These monuments are gravestones, photographed in the vicinity of the settlement of Qārat al-Ṣanāhiǧa during the field works of the Soviet-Yemeni Complex Expedition in 1988. The publication of tombstones from Qārat al-Ṣanāhiǧa is a valuable source on genealogy. As part of our research, we have prepared their Arabic text, Russian translation and necessary commentaries, which include descriptions of social relations as well as various cultural and historical aspects of the Hadrami society. As a result of analysis of the paleography and text of the epitaphs, we came to the conclusion that this group of tombstones represents a local type of decoration. Due to the uniformly standard language of epitaphs, some poorly preserved inscriptions can be restored to the last word.