The village of Hakman

The village of Al-Hakman is located north of Al-Baha city center, about 25 km from it, and it is one of the abandoned villages that is considered the headquarters of the sheikhdom of the Bani Jandab tribe, and it is bordered to the north by the Quraysh tribe, to the south by Bani Bashir, to the east by : Bani Bashir and Quraysh, and from the west Bani Kinana. Most of its houses consist of . One or two stories, they are adjacent to each other and most of them are abandoned. Their walls were built using stones stacked on top of each other in an artistic way that required high professional expertise, and were shortened on the inside with a thick layer of mud and milk. They were built using stone according to the shape of its natural section, which is of varying sizes and shapes, and were installed in a high-quality technical manner and in a monolithic manner to ensure the cohesion of the walls. It is noteworthy that the craftsmen were creative in installing the stone by alternating between a layer of stone and a layer of small stones, thus taking advantage of the available stones from the construction site. Roofs were also built using tree trunks, a layer of tree branches, and mud and clay on top. In a number of houses, roofs were built on rectangular wooden poles topped with a larger piece that resembled the crown of the pole, known locally as the mizrahi. The mizrahi is a distinctive architectural element of this architectural style in this region. However, in most of the houses in this village, it is unadorned and consists of a piece of a tree trunk according to its natural shape. The doors and windows of the houses were characterized by their simplicity and lack of decorations. In general, the houses of this village are characterized by simplicity in their construction and architectural details, as if they were built according to the available building materials