Just 10 years ago, we went to the historic town of Jibla in the morning. Starting from the capital of Sana'a and targeting the traces of Islamic civilization in Yemen one by one, we deliberately happened to pass here. Jibla was hosting the magnificent palace and the milk-white mosque which was built by Arwa bint Ahmad al-Sulayhi – one of the two queens in the history of Islam on behalf of who sermons were read out (the other is her mother-in-law Asma Bint Shihab). As the representative of the Sulayhi dynasty, Queen Arwa, who ruled Yemen from 1067 to 1188, was also the first Muslim and independent female ruler of the country.