{
 "id": "group/himyar",
 "class": "group",
 "slug": "himyar",
 "label": {
  "ar": "حمير",
  "en": "Himyar"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "أشهر بطون قحطان مع كهلان؛ غلبت على مملكة سبأ نحو سنة 115ق.م واتخذت ظفار عاصمة، ومنها ملوك اليمن الأخيرون كذي نواس وبيت ذي يزن.",
  "en": "The most famous Qahtani stock with Kahlan; it took over the kingdom of Saba around 115 BCE, made Zafar its capital, and produced Yemen’s later kings such as Dhu Nuwas and the house of Dhu Yazan."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/pre-islamic-arabia"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "family-marriage-kinship"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "tribe",
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 15–34 (batch 25a)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "حمير: أشهر بطون قحطان مع كهلان؛ غلبت على مملكة سبأ نحو سنة 115ق.م فصارت ملوك اليمن حتى الاحتلال الحبشي."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحياة",
     "markdown": "في العهد منذ سنة 115ق.م إلى سنة 300م غلبت قبيلة حمير على مملكة سبأ واتخذت بلدة ريدان عاصمة لها بدل مأرب ثم سميت ظفار، وفي هذا العهد بدأ فيهم السقوط والانحطاط لفشل تجارتهم {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}.\n\nومن حمير ملوك اليمن الأخيرون: تبّان أسعد أبو كرب الذي أدخل اليهودية اليمن، وابنه يوسف ذو نواس صاحب أخدود نجران، ثم معد يكرب بن سيف ذي يزن الذي قاد استقلال اليمن عن الحبشة سنة 575م {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}. وكتبت وفد حمير بإسلامهم في السيرة بعد تبوك {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "حمير ملوك اليمن القدماء؛ حكموا بعد سبأ، ومنهم الملك الظالم الذي أحرق أهل نجران."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "group/himyar",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Himyar: the most famous of Qahtan's clans along with Kahlan; it prevailed over the kingdom of Saba' around 115 BCE and became Yemen's kings until the Abyssinian occupation."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "In the era from 115 BCE to 300 CE the tribe of Himyar prevailed over Saba''s kingdom, making the town of Raydan its capital in place of Ma'rib — later called Zafar; in this era their decline began as their trade failed {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}.\n\nOf Himyar are Yemen's last kings: Tubba' As'ad Abu Karib who brought Judaism into Yemen; his son Yusuf Dhu Nuwas, master of the Najran trench; then Ma'di Yakrib ibn Sayf Dhi Yazan who led Yemen's independence from Abyssinia in 575 CE {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}. Himyar's delegations' writs of Islam are recorded in the Sira after Tabuk {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Himyar were Yemen's ancient kings; they ruled after Saba', and among them the unjust king who burned the people of Najran."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "group/himyar",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 8,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/dhu-nuwas",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "person/sayf-ibn-dhi-yazan",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "event/letter-of-himyar-kings",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "object/nasr",
   "type": "holds",
   "inverse": true
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "place/yemen",
  "event/massacre-of-najran",
  "event/persian-rule-of-yemen",
  "event/year-of-delegations",
  "person/muadh-ibn-jabal",
  "person/muhammad",
  "place/medina",
  "event/letter-of-himyar-kings"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}