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Niftawayh was born in Wasit in what is now Iraq. [3] His date of birth is most commonly held to be 858, though the year 864 has been suggested as well. [4] He spent most of his life in Baghdad, where he died on a Wednesday in the month of Safar just an hour after sunrise in the year 935. [5]
Arwa was born in 1047 or 1048 CE (440 AH) to Ahmad ibn al-Qasim al-Sulayhi and al-Raddah al-Sulayhi. [1] The Sulayhid ruler Ali al-Sulayhi was her paternal uncle. [ 2 ] [ note 1 ] Her father (Ahmad) died while she was young (the exact date is never stated) and her mother remarried 'Amir ibn Sulayman al-Zawahi , a member of an allied tribe who ...
Queen Arwa was known as an outstanding ruler, indeed one of the most renowned ruling queens of the Islamic world. She governed with the help of a succession of strong henchmen. The first was Saba' bin Ahmad, a distant cousin of the Sulayhids who formally married queen Arwa. [8] The marriage, however, was probably not consummated.
The town of Jibla The palace of Queen Arwa in 2013. Following the assassination of the Sulayhid 'Ali ibn Muhammad in 1067 CE, Arwa al-Sulayhi's husband Ahmad became the de jure ruler of Yemen, but he was unable to rule, being paralysed and bedridden. He gave all of his power to Arwa, one of her first actions was to move the capital from Sana'a ...
Lut ibn Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Azdi (Arabic: لُوط بْن يَحْيَى بْن سَعِيد الأَزْدِيّ, romanized: Lūṭ ibn Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-ʾAzdī; c. 689 –773/775), commonly known by his kunya Abu Mikhnaf (Arabic: أَبُو مِخنَف, romanized: ʾAbū Mikhnaf), was an early Muslim historian.
Arwā bint Ḥarb (Arabic: أروى بنت حرب), better known as Umm Jamīl (Arabic: أم جميل), was an aunt of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who is mentioned in the Quran. [1]
Several sites around Arwa contain ancient petroglyphs from different historic eras. Some carvings may date back to 1000 years BC. [1] Arwa was the site of the Battle of Arwa in 1883 (1300 AH), where the Rashidis led by Muhammed bin Abdullah Al Rashid defeated the Utaiba and their Al Saud allies.
Queen Arwa continued to rule securely until her death in 1138. [76] Queen Arwa al- Sulaihi Palace. Arwa al-Sulayhi is still remembered as a great and much loved sovereign, as attested in Yemeni historiography, literature, and popular lore, where she is referred to as Balqis al-sughra , that is "the junior queen of Sheba". [77]