As-Salafiyah

Al-Salafiyah lies in the mountains of Raymah, above the western valleys of Yemen. Terraced fields climb its steep slopes, held in place by stone walls that preserve soil and help retain rainwater. In the valley of Wadi Rima, the geographer al-Hamdani described a market called Shajban at the boundary between Jiblan and the districts west of Dhamar. The region's villages and cultivable terraces occupy a landscape of ridges and deep valleys between the highlands and Tihama.