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...

Look up zafar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Zafar may refer to: Zafar (name) Zafar, Yemen, an ancient Yemeni city Zafar, a medieval port city whose...

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...

According to classical sources, their capital was the ancient city of Zafar, relatively near the modern-day city of Sana'a. Himyarite power eventually...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

and transporting various products in ancient maritime Southeast Asia Zafar, Yemen Twede, D. (2002), "Commercial Amphoras: The Earliest Consumer Packages...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(1978). Yemen: the politics of the Yemen Arab Republic. Westview Press. p. 141. ISBN 0891583009. Michel Tuchscherer (July 2000). "Chronologie du Yémen (1506–1635)'...

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...

Governorate of Yemen. Located in the highlands, Yarim is approximately halfway between Sanaa, Yemen's capital, and Taizz. The ruins of Zafar, an ancient...

The Yemen Gate or Gate of Yemen (Arabic: باب اليمن, romanized: Bâb el-Yemen) is the main gate of Sanaa's old fortified wall, on the southern extremity...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

1727, an-Nasir Muhammad once again claimed the imamate from his base in Zafar, north-west of San'a. He had the support of the Hashid and Bakil tribesmen...

Halévy, Joseph (1872). Rapport sur une mission archéologique dans le Yémen (in French). Paris: Imprimerie Nationale. Harding, Gerald Lankester (1964)...

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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...

in Sabaic, describes the roads in the area. Zafar, Yemen Rulers of Sheba and Himyar Ancient history of Yemen Krista Lewis, Space and the Spice of Life:...

Schneider, 'Les inscriptions arabes de l'ensemble architectural de Zafar-Dhi Bin (Yémen du Nord)', Journal asiatique 273 1985, p. 66. Encyclopaedia of Islam...