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802:(published in 1971), quotes from the Nestorian Chronicle from Saard (Séert) edited by Addai Scher (see: Patrologia Orientalis vol. IV, V and VII), compiled shortly after anno 1036 CE from extracts of old Syriac historical works no longer extant, saying: "… In later times there reigned over this country a Jewish king, whose name was Masrūq. His mother was a Jewess, of the inhabitants of Nisibis, who had been made a captive. Then one of the kings of Yaman had bought her and she had given birth to Masrūq and instructed him in Judaism. He reigned after his father and killed a number of the Christians. Bar Sāhde has told his history in his Chronicle." 789:(published in 1971), quotes from the Nestorian Chronicle from Saard (Séert) edited by Addai Scher (see: Patrologia Orientalis vol. IV, V and VII), compiled shortly after anno 1036 CE from extracts of old Syriac historical works no longer extant, saying: "… In later times there reigned over this country a Jewish king, whose name was Masrūq. His mother was a Jewess, of the inhabitants of Nisibis, who had been made a captive. Then one of the kings of Yaman had bought her and she had given birth to Masrūq and instructed him in Judaism. He reigned after his father and killed a number of the Christians. Bar Sāhde has told his history in his Chronicle." 436:). The city had revolted against the king and refused to deliver itself to the king. About 300 of the city’s inhabitants surrendered to the king’s forces under the assurances of an oath that no harm would come to them, and they were later bound. Those remaining in the city were burnt alive within their church. The death toll in that account is said to have reached about 2000. However, the Sabaean inscriptions describing the events report that by the month of Dhu-Madra'an (between July and September), there had been "1000 killed, 1500 prisoners and 10,000 head of cattle." 917: 334:, Dhu Nuwas announced that he would persecute the Christians living in his kingdom because Christian states were persecuting his fellow co-religionists in their realms. A letter survives written by Simon, the bishop of Beth Arsham in 524 CE, and recounts the persecution of Dimnon, who is probably Dhu Nuwas, in 475:
during the embassage to the land of the Ḥimyarites (Yemen) around 340 CE. This church was set on fire and razed to the ground, and its Abyssinian inhabitants killed. Later, foreigners (presumably Christians) living in Hadhramaut were also put to death before the king's army advanced to Najran in the
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and al-Ḥīrha. He revealed the contents of the letter to the Byzantine ambassadors, who were horrified by its contents. Word of the slaughter quickly spread throughout the Byzantine and Persian realms, and refugees from Najran, including a man named Daws Dhu Tha'laban, even reached the court of Roman
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Many modern historians, except for Christopher Haas, have argued that her son's conversion was a matter of tactical opportunism since Judaism would have provided him with an ideological counterweight to the religion of his adversary, the Kingdom of Aksum and it also allowed him to curry favour with
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As for the real name of Dhu Nuwas, the archeological inscriptions already prove his real name to have been Yusuf As'ar Yath'ar. The Arab historians with the exception of Ibn Abbas all cite his real name as being Zur'ah while the name Yusuf comes later after his conversion to Judaism. Some sources
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The name Yūsuf 'As'ar Yath'ar, which is believed to mean the same as Yūsūf Dhū Nuwās, appears in an old South Arabian inscription from the 520s. Related inscriptions from the same period were also deciphered by Jamme and Ryckmans and show that in the ensuing wars with his non-Jewish subjects, the
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Based on other contemporary sources, Dhu Nuwas, after seizing the throne of the Ḥimyarites around 518 or 522, attacked Najran and its inhabitants, captured them and, burned their churches. The destruction fell out on Tuesday, during the 15th day of the lunar month
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Ibn Hisham explains the same sequence of events under the name of "Yūsuf Dhū Nuwās." Following this invasion, the supremacy of Judaism in the Kingdom of Ḥimyar, as well as in all of Yemen, came to an abrupt end.
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Dhu Nuwas' family is not very well known. There is debate on who his father is; the earlier Arab scholars and the Jewish Encyclopedia believed that Dhu Nuwas was the son of the earlier Himyarite king
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Who they stand with their master, King Yusuf Asar Yathar, when he burned the church and killed the Habashah (Abyssinians) in Dhofar and war on (Habashah) in Ash'aran and Rakban (regions) and
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whom was purchased by and then married to an unnamed Himyarite king; this indicates Dhu Nuwas was in fact a Himyarite prince. If so, that would place her origins within the
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reigning between 522–530 AD who came to renown on account of his persecutions of peoples of other religions, notably Christians, living in his kingdom. He was also known as
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to inform them of his deed and to encourage them to do likewise to the Christians under their dominion. Al-Mundhir received the letter in January 519 [
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Booty of two hundred thousand camels, cows, sheep, and this Misnad (inscription) was written by Sharaḥ'īl Yaqbul dhu Yaz'an when camped in Najran
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family was both the tribal chief and the lieutenant of King Yusuf during the military campaigns; he was sent out by the king to take the city of
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as a retaliation for his persecutions of Christians. Unwilling to accept defeat after the capture of his queen and bounty along with the town of
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combined war booty (excluding deaths) from campaigns waged against the Abyssinians in Ẓafār, the fighters in ’Ašʻarān, Rakbān, Farasān, Muḥwān (
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On the sea from the side of Habashah (Abyssinia) And they set up a series of fortifications in the Bab al-Mandab and all who mentioned in this
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and would illuminate possible political reasons for his later actions against the Christians of Arabia, who were natural allies of the
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and would illuminate possible political reasons for his later actions against the Christians of Arabia, who were natural allies of the
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also state his name was Masruq. Either way, it is agreed upon that Dhu Nuwas had the name Yusuf during his rule.
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source appears to suggest that the mother of Dhū Nuwās may have been a Jew hailing from the Mesopotamian city of
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God who owns the heavens and the earth bless king Yusuf Asar Yathar, king of all nations and bless the Aqials
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King Yusuf As'ar Yath'ar, described in an inscription as the "king of all nations," led the major tribes of
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the betrayer of its generation, he that swalloweth up people? It has removed Dhū Nuwās from the fortresses
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also reported that Dhu Nuwas' real name was Yusuf, son of Sharhabil, which was reported by
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The king has succeeded in these battles in the killing of 12,500 and capturing 11,090
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According to the Arab historians, Dhu Nuwas then proceeded to write a letter to the
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According to a number of medieval historians, who depend on the account of
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Jacques Ryckmans, who deciphered the Sabaean inscriptions, writes in his
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The Life of Muhammad, translation of Ibn Ishaq's Sira Rasul Allah
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The entire poem is brought down only in a-Ṭūsī's version of the
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Dīwān imrī al-qays wa-mulḥaqātuh bi-šarḥ abī sa‘īd al-sukkarī
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himself and begged him to avenge the martyred Christians.
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Art thou not saddened how fate has become an ugly beast,
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Zein, Ibrahim Mohamed; El-Wakil, Ahmed (2022-12-30).
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they fought and took booty and camped in this mission
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and his brothers the Aqials who camped with the king
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Index

Ma'dikarib Ya'fur
Dhu Shanatir
Sumyafa Ashwa
Himyar
Red Sea
Judaism
Arabic
Musnad
Hebrew
Syriac
Medieval Greek
Himyar
Ibn Hisham
Sīrah
convert Jew
sidelocks
Dhu Shanatir
Philostorgius
Procopius
Persian War
Kingdom of Aksum
Ethiopia
ancient Yemen
Byzantine emperor
Justin I
Himyarite Kingdom
Imrū' al-Qays
Syriac
Nisibis
Sassanid imperial sphere

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