Saif ibn Dhi Yazan al-Himyari (Arabic: سَيْف بِن ذِي يَزَن الحِمْيَريّ) or simply known as Saif ibn Dhi Yazan, was a semi-legendary Himyarite king who...

Christian community of Najran. By 570, the subjugated Himyarite king Saif ibn Dhi Yazan sought to end Aksum's hegemony in the region and, after being rejected...

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 ibn...

Sīrat Sayf ibn Dhī Yazan (Arabic: سيرة سيف بن ذي يزن, "The Biography of Sayf ibn Dhī Yazan") is a popular Arab romance dating to somewhere between the...

west and Najd southward, where in 516 he engaged in a battle with Saif ibn Dhi Yazan, the Himyarite king. In 526, the Iberian War between the Byzantine...

Masrūq ibn Abraha (Arabic: مسروق بن أبرهة) was the last Aksumite ruler of Yemen, as recorded in both Arabic tradition and later Islamic literature. He...

historical Axumite king. Wolfgang Hahn instead believes Saifu was Saif ibn Dhi Yazan and had no connection at all with the Axumite monarchy. Fere Sanai...

his neighbor, such as the Taghribat Bani Hilal, the biography of Saif ibn Dhi Yazan, and One Thousand and One Nights. In 1919 a public school was opened...

prompted the Yemeni to form a coalition through their leader, Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan, with the Sasanian Empire. According to Tabari, the undermanned Yemeni-Sasanian...

Elephant." Abraha was later succeeded by his son, Axum.[citation needed] Saif bin Dhi Yazan Al-Himyari, a prominent noble of Himyar, sought assistance from the...

Ambassador Abdu Othman), 1972 A Letter to Saif bin Dhi Yazan, 1973 Yemeni Footnotes On the Alienation of Ibn Zreik al-Baghdadi, 1974 The Return of Waddah...

of 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...