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Some of the people of Thamud believed Saleh's words, but the tribal leaders refused to listen to him and continued to demand that he demonstrate a miracle to prove his prophethood. [14] In response, God gave the Thamud a blessed she-camel (Arabic: نَاقة, romanized: naaqah, lit. 'female camel'), as both a means of sustenance and a test.
The word Thamud appears in the Annals of the Assyrian king Sargon II (r. 722—705 BCE), inscribed at Dur-Sharrukin. [8] As the "Ta-mu-di", the peoples are mentioned together with the Ephah, the "Ibadidi", and the "Marsimani" as part of "the distant desert-dwelling Arabs who knew neither overseers nor officials and had not brought their tribute to any king".
Amongst the many narrations in the Qur'an, one historical story deals with the people of Thamud, who lived after the people of ʿĀd in pre-Islamic Arabia.As the people of the community were heavily indulgent in idolatry, besides other issues, God sent the prophet and oracle Saleh to warn them of the impending doom that they would face if they did not mend their fraudulent ways.
Arab folk dances (Arabic: رقص عربي, romanized: raqs ʿarabiyy), also referred to as Oriental dance, Middle-Eastern dance and Eastern dance, are the traditional folk dances of the Arabs in Arab world. Arab dance has many different styles, including the three main types of folklore, classical, and contemporary.
Thamud appears twenty-six times in the Quran where the tribe is presented as an example of an ancient polytheistic people destroyed by God for their rejection of God's prophet Salih. [86] Thamud is associated in the Quran into its grander history of a pattern of rebellion and destruction of past groups of people.
They call out dance steps and also perform line dances with hand-held fans. “The fans add fun and energy,” says Peterson. Alexus Sumpter, 27, has been dancing with the group TruKuntry Steppas ...
So the term "Thamud" was not applied to the groups that lived in Mada'in Salih, such as Lihyanites and Nabataeans, but rather to the region itself, and according to classical sources, it was agreed upon that the only remaining group of the native people of Thamud is the tribe of Banu Thaqif which inhabited the city of Taif south of Mecca.
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