The Kingdom of Saba (Sheba)
مملكة سبأ
c. 1100 BCE – c. 115 BCE
The oldest named power of Yemen in the sira’s prologue: its traces reach twenty-five centuries before the Common Era in the excavations of Ur, its flourish begins in the eleventh century BCE, and it passed through the Mukarrib era at Sirwah and the kingdom era at Maʾrib before Himyar absorbed it around 115 BCE.
At a glance
- Era
- Pre-Islamic Arabia
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
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In time
Overview
The kingdom of Saba': the earliest of Yemen's kingdoms named in the sira's introduction; the Mukarribs' era at Sirwah, then Saba''s kings at Ma'rib until Himyar overcame it.
In the sira presentation
Al-Mubarakpuri devotes a chapter to government and rule among the Arabs before Islam, dividing the peninsula's rulers into non-independent crowned kings (Yemen's kings, the Ghassanid house and al-Hira's kings) and independent tribal chiefs 1.
People and things also explored
The Second Abyssinian Occupation of YemenThe Battle of Dhu QarThe Conquest of KhaybarThe Battle of the Trench (al-Ahzab)The Conquest of Mecca (Fath Makka)The death of Abdullah ibn Ubayy and the Prophet's prayer over himThe Expedition of Banu al-Mustaliq (al-Muraysi')The expedition of Usama ibn Zayd
Sources
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
- Tafhim al-Quran — Abu al-A'la al-Mawdudi
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “The Kingdom of Saba (Sheba)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/polity/kingdom-of-saba/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.