The Dhu Yazan (Arabic: ذي يزن) also known as Al-Yazanin were a prominent Arab tribal clan and elite ruling family of Yemen that were affiliated with the...

Ma'dikarib ibn Saif Dhi Yazan al-Himyari. As for the epithet in his patronymic, Dhi Yazan, it is in reference to the tribe of Dhu Yazan which was an elite...

Look up yazan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Yazan (Arabic: يزن or يازن; Persian: يازن or يزن) may refer to: Dhu Yazan, an ancient Yemeni tribe Saif...

beginning with Dhū, such as Dhū Nuwās and Dhū Yazan, were common among the kings of Himyar. Fereydun. According to al-Tabari's Tarikh, some say Dhu al-Qarnayn...

persécution des chrétiens himyarites that Sarah'il Yaqbul-Yaz'an of the Dhu Yazan family was both the tribal chief and the lieutenant of King Yusuf during...

departure point for the epic which gets going very quickly with the voyage of Dhū Yazan, father of the hero, to Abyssinia – this is the second location of the...

Ṣaʿb Dhu Marāthid (also al-Ṣaʿb b. Dhī Marāthid) was a mythical figure described in the medieval Islamic tradition as the tenth South Arabian king of...

deposition of Dhu Nuwas, who was persecuting the Christian community of Najran. By 570, the subjugated Himyarite king Saif ibn Dhi Yazan sought to end...

known about them, such as the tribes of "Fishan," “Dhu Ma’ahir," “Dhu Khalil," “Dhu Lahad," "Dhu Yazan", and many others. They were not mentioned in the...

son of Al-Sabbah (not Abraha al-Ashram) Dhu Shanatir Dhu Nuwas Abraha Yaksum ibn Abraha Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan Book of the Himyarites, a Syriac Christian...

dominance, who had occupied large parts of the country. Sayf ibn Dhi-Yazan, the son of Dhu Yazan, went to Khosrau and offered him all of Yemen if his army would...

influential elite Dhu Yazan family. Some have suggested that Sumyafa' Ashwa was the father of the Himyarite prince, Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan, whose real name...

reassured Rabia that a king from the people of the Dhu Yazan family (referring to Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan) would expel the Abyssinians and rule Yemen. Rabia...

However, Wolfgang Hahn notes that "Saifu is the well-known Saif bin Dhu Yazan who was probably a grandson of Sumuyafa Ashwa, the deputy-king installed...

commanders or a member of one of the armies led by King Kaleb of Axum against Dhu Nuwas. In al-Tabari's history, Abraha is said to have been the commander...

retook Sana'a following the assassination of its governor Sayf ibn Dhī Yazan. The Red Sea was left to the Rashidun Caliphate in 646, and the port city...

under the command of Wahrez, who helped the semi-legendary Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan to drive the Kingdom of Aksum out of Yemen. South Arabia became a Persian...

Waddah al-Yaman Yunus al-Katib al-Mughanni Zufar ibn al-Harith al-Kilabi Dhu Jadan al-Himyari Dorayd bin Al Soma Qatari ibn al-Fuja'a al-Mufaddal Abbasid...

poetry, particularly during the Abbasid caliphate, such as swords named Dhu al-Nun, al-Qalzam and ash-Shamsharah. Arab tribes residing mainly in Iraq...

Vahriz (Persian: اسپهبد وهرز), who helped the semi-legendary Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan to drive the Aksumites out of Yemen. Southern Arabia became a Persian dominion...

Nashef, 2002, p. 13. Suleiman Mousa: Simplified Biography in English, by Yazan Suheil Mousa "Renowned Syrian Novelist Hanna Mina Dies at 94". Asharq AL-awsat...