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