enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Tribes of Arabia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribes_of_Arabia

    The general consensus among 14th-century Arab genealogists is that Arabs are of three kinds: Al-Arab al-Ba'ida (Arabic: العرب البائدة), "The Extinct Arabs", were an ancient group of tribes in pre-Islamic Arabia that included the ‘Ād, the Thamud, the Tasm and the Jadis, thelaq (who included branches of Banu al-Samayda), and others.

  3. History of the Arabs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Arabs

    Façade of Al Khazneh in Petra, Jordan, built by the Nabateans.. Ancient North Arabian texts give a clearer picture of Arabic's developmental history and emergence. Ancient North Arabian is a collection of texts from Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria which not only recorded ancient forms of Arabic, such as Safaitic and Hismaic, but also of pre-Arabic languages previously spoken in the Arabian ...

  4. Pre-Islamic Arabia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Islamic_Arabia

    Approximate locations of some of the important tribes and Empire of the Arabian Peninsula at the dawn of Islam (approximately 600 CE / 50 BH). Arab traditions relating to the origins and classification of the Arabian tribes is based on biblical genealogy. The general consensus among 14th-century Arab genealogists was that Arabs were three kinds:

  5. Bedouin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedouin

    Bedouins in the Sinai Region, 1967. The Bedouin, Beduin, or Bedu (/ ˈ b ɛ d u ɪ n / BED-oo-in; [15] Arabic: بَدْو, romanized: badw, singular بَدَوِي badawī) are pastorally nomadic Arab tribes [16] who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia (). [17]

  6. Nabataeans - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabataeans

    The Nabataeans were an Arab tribe who had come under significant Babylonian-Aramaean influence. [8] The first mention of the Nabataeans dates from 312/311 BC, when they were attacked at Sela or perhaps at Petra without success by Antigonus I 's officer Athenaeus in the course of the Third War of the Diadochi ; at that time Hieronymus of Cardia ...

  7. Category:Tribes of Arabia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Tribes_of_Arabia

    This category is for articles relating to Arabian tribes. Subcategories. This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total. A. Adnanites (6 C, 14 P) B.

  8. Sheba - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheba

    Sheba, [a] or Saba, [b] was an ancient South Arabian kingdom in modern-day Yemen [3] whose inhabitants were known as the Sabaeans [c] or the tribe of Sabaʾ which, for much of the 1st millennium BCE, were indissociable from the kingdom itself. [4]

  9. ʿĀd - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ʿĀd

    ʿĀd (Arabic: عاد, ʿĀd) was an ancient semite tribe in pre-Islamic Arabia mentioned frequently in the Qurʾān. [1] The Qurʾān mentions their location was in al-ʾAḥqāf which is in modern-day Hadhramaut, Yemen. The tribe's members, referred to as ʿĀdites, formed a prosperous nation until they were destroyed in a violent storm.