H. Althamary (Husayn ʿAbd Allah Dhamari)

Professor Husayn ʿAbd Allāh Dhamārī (fl. 1971–1990), known in English as H. Althamary, is among the small number of indigenous Yemeni cartographers whose work survives from the post-colonial period. His name suggests origins in Dhamār, the historic city in the central Yemeni highlands. His principal output — produced between approximately 1971 and 1976 — includes The Yemen (first published in Egypt, 1972) and a companion map of Ṣanʿāʾ; both are of great rarity. He later produced a map of the unified Republic of Yemen, published in Ṣanʿāʾ after the 1990 unification.