describes the exploits of Yūsuf Dhū Nuwās. Ibn Hisham explains that Yūsuf was a convert Jew who grew out his sidelocks (nuwās) and became known as "he of...

early 6th century, the Christians were persecuted by the Himyarite king Dhu Nuwas. These events caused widespread reactions among Christians in the Roman...

Zur'ah (the real name of Dhu Nuwas according to the Arab historians) stabbed him to death. Ibn Ishaq narrates that Lakhni'ah Yanuf Dhu Shanatir had a habit...

Ma'dikarib Ya'fur. A Himyarite prince and hardline follower of Judaism, Dhu Nuwas (who had attempted to overthrow the dynasty several years earlier), took...

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...

Himyarite King is born, Zur'ah Yusuf Ibn Tuban As'ad Abu Kaleb Dhu Nuwas or Dhu Nuwas. He died in 510. His zeal for Judaism brought about his fall. Having...

viceroy of the Aksumite king Kaleb, who had invaded Himyar and defeated Dhu Nuwas. Sumyafa' Ashwa was a native convert to Christianity. There is an inscription...

Himyarite king and installing in his place the hardline Jewish king Dhu Nuwas. Dhu Nuwas went on to try combatting the Christianizing influence from the Kingdom...

Himyar Christian by the name of Maʿdīkarib Yaʿfur. However, in 522 Yūsuf Dhū Nuwās declared himself king in a successful coup d'état and began to persecute...

by his successor, Dhu Nuwas. Ma'dikarib Ya'fur does not exist in the Arabian legends, and is instead replaced by a king named Dhu Shanatir whom is described...

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 of...

order to end the persecution of Christians perpetrated by the Jewish king Dhu Nuwas. With the annexation of Himyar, the Kingdom of Aksum was at its largest...

of Najran by order of the King Dhu Nuwas. According to Christian sources, this event took place around 523 C.E. Dhu Nuwas converted to Judaism and chose...

in history by his cognomen Dhu Nuwas ("Lord of the Curls," possibly because he wore his peot long). For some years Dhu Nuwas was successful in staving...

purposes. It is also famous for being the location where the Himyarite king Dhu Nuwas massacred the majority of the population of the city which had converted...

in history by his cognomen Dhu Nuwas ("Lord of the Curls," possibly because he wore his peot long). For some years Dhu Nuwas was successful in staving...

century; he was executed during the persecution of Christians by king Dhu Nuwas of Himyar in 523. He is known from the Acta S. Arethae (also called Martyrium...

led to the annexation of the Himyarite Kingdom and the deposition of Dhu Nuwas, who was persecuting the Christian community of Najran. By 570, the subjugated...

that Dhu Nuwas was the son of Hassan Yuha'min and hence the grandson of Abu Karib. Other scholars like Ibn al-Athir held the view that Dhu Nuwas was the...

ancient world. In 517 AD, the Himyarite king Ma'adikarib was overthrown by Dhu Nuwas, a Jewish leader who began persecuting Christians and confiscating trade...

the Dhu Yazan clan. Members of the clan also raided a city at Al Mahrah Governorate in the year 515. Dhu Yazan were prominent allies of Dhu Nuwas, helping...

اَلْحُكْمِيِّ اَلْمِذْحَجِي), known as Abū Nuwās al-Salamī (أبو نواس السلمي) or just Abū Nuwās (أبو نواس, Abū Nuwās); c. 756 – c. 814) was a classical Arabic...

sources, after seizing the throne of the Ḥimyarites in ca. 518 or 523, Dhū Nuwās, a Jewish king, attacked the mainly Christian Aksumite garrison at Zafar...

title of Malik transformed to imply territorial rule. After the fall of Dhu Nuwas around 530 CE to the Aksumite Empire, Yemen was open for foreign domination...

the late Himyarite Kingdom. It was commissioned by an army commander of Dhu Nuwas named S²rḥʾl Yqbl in which he celebrated massacring the Christian community...

Visigoths. His kingdom is threatened from the north by the Burgundians. Dhu Nuwas seizes the throne of the Himyarite Kingdom in Yemen. He attacks the Aksumite...

several tribal elites fought for power. One of those elites was Joseph Dhu Nuwas or "Yûsuf 'As'ar Yaṯ'ar" as mentioned in ancient south Arabian inscriptions...

around 520, against the Himyarite king Yūsuf As'ar Yath'ar, known as Dhu Nuwas, a Jewish convert who was persecuting the Christian community of Najran...

the de facto state religion two centuries earlier, led by King Yusuf Dhu Nuwas, had offered residents of a village in what is now Saudi Arabia the choice...

appealed to Dhu Nuwas after two of his sons were brutally murdered by the Christians who had captured Najran. After hearing of his plight, Dhu Nuwas swore to...