Ẓafār (Arabic: ظفار), also Romanized Dhafar or Dhofar, is an ancient Himyarite site situated in Yemen, some 130 km south-south-east of today's capital...
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Look up zafar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Zafar may refer to: Zafar (name) Zafar, Uzbekistan Zafar, Yemen, an ancient Yemeni city Zafar, a medieval...
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Zafar Ali Hilaly (Urdu: ظفر ہلالی, born 1942) is a Pakistani political analyst and diplomat who has previously served as his country's ambassador to Yemen...
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According to classical sources, their capital was the ancient city of Zafar, relatively near the modern-day city of Sana'a. Himyarite power eventually...
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been identified with the former city Zafar, Yemen, his son Sheba with the ancient kingdom of Sheba, also in Yemen, and his son Havilah with the supposed...
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wish-granting Genie of the Lamp, and battles Zafar and later the evil enchantress Mallika, and again with Zafar after his rebirth. While it incorporates many...
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Theophilos the Indian (category Christian missionaries in Yemen)
Theophilus had founded in Arabia during the 4th century was built at Zafar, Yemen and likely destroyed in 523 by the King of Himyar Dhu Nuwas, who had...
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they are called Agaze". The reconstruction [ag]āzә[yān] in RIE 264 from Zafār (Yemen) (late 5th-early 6th century AD) has been proposed by Müller, but the...
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came from Yemeni Jews who converted to Christianity and were transported by the Christian Kingdom of Axum in the sixth century from Zafar, Yemen, or the...
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natural downward position. This metallic hand from 2nd-3rd century AD Zafar, Yemen with a dedication to Ta'lab has been offered as a distant parallel. The...
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Samir Khan (redirect from Samir ibn Zafar Khan)
Samir ibn Zafar Khan (December 25, 1985 – September 30, 2011) was a Saudi Arabian naturalized U.S. citizen, jihadist militant, and the editor and publisher...
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Yarim (category Towns in Yemen)
Governorate of Yemen. Located in the highlands, Yarim is approximately halfway between Sanaa, Yemen's capital, and Taizz. The ruins of Zafar, an ancient...
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from pre-Islamic Yemen that represents a ram Bas-relief with a palm tree; Sana'a, ancient Yemen, alabaster. Miniature gate; Zafar, Yemen, 2rd-3rd century...
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and is carved on a relief from a large block, likely originating from Zafar, Yemen. It describes Malkikarib Yuhamin in coregency with his two sons and commemorating...
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cultivated a period of peace and cultural exchanges. The capital was at Zafar (near Yarim), which was enclosed by double walls and nine gates. It had...
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and transporting various products in ancient maritime Southeast Asia Zafar, Yemen Twede, D. (2002), "Commercial Amphoras: The Earliest Consumer Packages...
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(1978). Yemen: the politics of the Yemen Arab Republic. Westview Press. p. 141. ISBN 0891583009. Michel Tuchscherer (July 2000). "Chronologie du Yémen (1506–1635)'...
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Yuhaqim Yurzih (category Ancient history of Yemen)
Ihaqim) assumed the throne of Sheba and Dhu Raydan (a region centered on Zafar, Yemen) between 85 AD and approximately 95 AD, succeeding El-Bein III. In 90...
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Sanaa (redirect from Sanaá, Yemen)
Sanaa Multipolarité et nouvelles formes d'urbanité dans la capitale du Yémen". Annales de Géographie. 117 (659): 32–53. doi:10.3917/ag.659.0032. JSTOR 23457582...
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Yemenite Jews (redirect from Jews in Yemen)
the great pride he expressed after killing more than 22,000 Christians in Ẓafār and Najran. According to Jamme, Sabaean inscriptions reveal that the combined...
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Kobishchanov (1990), p. 91. (The Tapharis named in Acta Santorum is Zafar, Yemen.) Moberg (1924), pp. ci–cii, cv. Page ci establishes that the first presence...
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Bab al-Yaman (Arabic: باب اليمن, romanized: Bâb al-Yaman, lit. 'Gate of Yemen') is the main gate of Old Sanaa's old fortified wall, on the southern extremity...
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Wahidi Haban Yarim Zabid Zafar Zinjibar Zuqar Island Demographics of Yemen Yemen Scouts and Guides Association Chaush - Yemeni community in Hyderabad Qahtanite...
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Charibael (category 1st-century Yemeni people)
the Monuments, New York: E. & J.B. Young & Co. McLaughlin, Daniel (2007), Yemen, Chalfont St Peter: Bradt Travel Guides, ISBN 9781841622125. McLaughlin...
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Halévy, Joseph (1872). Rapport sur une mission archéologique dans le Yémen (in French). Paris: Imprimerie Nationale. Harding, Gerald Lankester (1964)...
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Jabal al-'Awd (category Mountains of Yemen)
is situated about 25 km south-east of the ancient Himyarite capital of Zafar. The place name ʿwd appears in Old South Arabian inscriptions, and probably...
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Al-Mansur Abdallah (category Zaydi imams of Yemen)
Schneider, 'Les inscriptions arabes de l'ensemble architectural de Zafar-Dhi Bin (Yémen du Nord)', Journal asiatique 273 1985, p. 66. Encyclopaedia of Islam...
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Great Mosque of Zabid (category Mosques in Yemen)
one of oldest preserved minarets in Yemen (along with those of the Great Mosque of Sana'a and the mosque of Zafar Dhibin), dates from this period. The...
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number of the amphoras and sherds came to light during excavations at Zafar in Yemen, and eleven of the sherds were subjected to mineralogical analysis,...
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Saada (redirect from Sada (Yemen))
Saada (Arabic: صَعْدَة, romanized: Ṣaʿda), situated in the northwest of Yemen, is the capital and largest city of the governorate of the same name, and...
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