al-Najraniyya
النجرانية
A village in the Kufa district settled by the Christians of Najran and their Jewish dependents when Umar ibn al-Khattab exiled them from Yemen in his caliphate, and named after them; the head of al-Najraniyya used to send agents to their scattered communities in Syria and the districts collecting a fund divided among them to sustain the stipulated hullas, and they complained of dispersion, deaths and conversions until Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz found them at a tithe of their original number.
At a glance
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
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Connections
- Site of
- Umar's Expulsion of the Christians of Najran
- Part of
- Kufa
People and things also explored
al-Walid ibn Uqba ibn Abi Mu'ayt· Great Mosque of Kufa· Abdullah ibn Mas'ud· أبو العباس السفاح· Adi ibn Hatim· al-Ash'ath ibn Qays· al-Bara' ibn Azib· الحجاج بن يوسف الثقفي
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Najraniyya”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/al-najraniyya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.