- The
Himyarite Kingdom was a
polity in the
southern highlands of Yemen, as well as the name of the
region which it claimed.
Until 110 BCE, it was integrated...
- the
request of the
Byzantine emperor Justin I to take
control of the
Himyarite Kingdom, then
under the
leadership of Yūsuf Dhū Nuwās, who rose to power...
- The
Letter to the
Himyarites was
composed by
Jacob of
Serugh and sent to the
Christian community of
Najran as they were ****cuted by the
Jewish monarch...
- sp****ly
attested Semitic language that was
spoken in
ancient Yemen, by the
Himyarite tribal confederacy. It was a
Semitic language but
either did not belong...
-
originates much
earlier in Syria),
beginning when the
ruling class of the
Himyarite Kingdom converted to
Judaism and
replacing invocations to polytheistic...
- sub-group of the Banu
Qahtani from whom the
Himyarites originally descend.
Around 455 CE, the last
Himyarite King is born, Zur'ah
Yusuf Ibn
Tuban As'ad...
- The Book of the
Himyarites (Ktābā da-ḥmirāye) is an
anonymous Syriac account of the ****cution and
martyrdom of the
Christian community of
Najran in the...
-
parts of
modern Ethiopia and Eritrea. In 275 CE, it was
succeeded by the
Himyarite Kingdom,
which spanned much of Yemen's present-day
territory and was heavily...
-
century CE,
Arabian history becomes more
tangible with the rise of the
Ḥimyarite, and with the
appearance of the Qaḥṭānites in the
Levant and the gradual...
-
still had
direct control of Najran. The
Persians instated the
former Himyarite king Sayf ibn Dhī
Yazan as the
governor of the new
Sasanian province of...
