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  • Aksum [Arabia and…]

    George Hatke

    Aksum is both the name of a kingdom located in northern Ethiopia and the capital of said kingdom. The Aksumite kingdom, whose lingua franca was the Ethiosemitic language of Gəʿəz, enters the historical record around the turn of the Common Era and came to an end around the seventh century. Throughout much of that period, the Aksumites were in regular contact – sometimes amicable, sometimes hostile – with the South Arabian kingdoms of Sabaʾ and Ḥimyar, at times invading and occupying parts of South Arabia.

  • al-Aswad ʿAbhala ibn Kaʿb al-ʿAnsī

    See Prophets and prophecy in Arabia

  • al-Basūs war

    Peter Webb

    A protracted series of battles waged in central Arabia between the Bakr and Taghlib lineage groups during the early sixth century CE. Muslim-era literature narrates the war as one of the classic epics of pre-Islamic Arabian history, and legendary accounts proliferated in scholarly writing and popular epics.

  • al-ʿUqla

    Solène Marion de Procé

    Isolated place of worship comprising a succession of basins where enthronement ceremonies of the Ḥaḍramawt kings took place.

  • Alabaster

    Caroline Durand

    Whitish and translucent soft stone widely used in Antiquity for ornamental sculpture in high and low relief, and for small objects, in particular for perfume vases. South Arabia was one of the main calcite-alabaster sources from the first millennium BCE onwards. Quarries dating to the Sabaean period have been found in the region of Ṣirwāḥ (Yemen).

  • Altar

    See Cult objects

  • Amīr

    Mounir Arbach

    An important tribe of the Najrān oasis and the name of a kingdom in the 3rd and 2nd century BCE. Prior to this period, the tribe of Amīr was part of a tribal federation forming the core of the kingdom of Muhaʾmir.

  • Ammianus Marcellinus [Arabia in ...]

    Saliou Catherine

    Based on Ammianus Marcellinus’ 'History', it is possible to study representations pertaining to Arabs, as well as the history of the Arabs, called Saraceni, in the fourth century.

  • an-Nasāʾib

    See Kamna (Site)

  • Ancient South Arabian (Languages)

    Alessia Prioletta

    Ancient South Arabian (ASA) designates a group of four Semitic languages, Sabaic, Qatabanic, Minaic and Hadramitic, attested from the end of the 2nd- beginning of the 1st millennium BCE until the advent of Islam in what is now Yemen, in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula. ASA inscriptions have also been found in Ethiopia, northern Arabia and Dhofar in Oman.

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