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Ibn Ṣayyād (or Ibn Ṣāʾid) was a Jewish youth who lived in Medina when the Prophet Muḥammad was there (622-32 CE). Ibn Ṣayyād’s family was associated with the Najjār branch of the Khazraj, one of the two main Arab tribes of Medina. In an encounter with Muḥammad, Ibn Ṣayyād recognised him as God’s messenger to the Gentiles (rasūl al-ummiyyīn), namely the Arabs, and demanded that Muḥammad recognize him as a messenger (to the Jews?). His name was Ṣāf or Ṣāfī, and upon his conversion to Islam he received the name ʿAbdallāh. His son ʿUmāra was considered a trustworthy scholar in the field of Muslim tradition (hadith).
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Ichthyophagoi (fish-eaters), coastal people referred to by textual sources (5th cent. BCE – 2nd cent. CE Greek-Roman authors) as living along the ‘River Ocean’ coastlines, between Arabia and Iperborei, and the Erythraean Sea (Red Sea). Archaeological research on the Iron Age of northern coastal Oman defines the area where Ichthyophagoi lived, the Iron Age horizon of coastal seasonal settlements in the inner oases of the al-Ḥajar mountain landscapes.
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King of Ḥaḍramawt, who ruled in the mid-1st cent. CE.
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Ilīʿazz Yaluṭ bin ʿAmmīdhakhar
King of Ḥaḍramawt, who ruled in the early 3rd cent. CE.
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See Aramaic
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Arabic poet of the first half of the sixth century CE; Muslim-era litterateurs consider Imruʾ al-Qays to be one of the earliest and most celebrated of all pre-Islamic Arabic poets.
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See Cult objects
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See Warfare
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See Script
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A promontory in Dhofar with numerous traces of human presence: a local settlement (HAS1), traces of South Arabian occupation and an Early Islamic settlement (HAS2) involved in Indian Ocean trade activities.