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The Realm Of King Yusuf (Dhu Nuwas)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

A. F. L. Beeston
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Extract

The Syriac document recently published by I. Shahîd in The martyrs of Najrân: new documents (Bruxelles, 1971) opens with the following passage:

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Notes and Communications
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , February 1975 , pp. 124 - 126
Copyright
Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1975

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References

1 Al-Hamdāanī, Jazīrat (ed. Müller, p. 118, last few lines) gives a list of localities, among which the most easily recognizable one nowadays is Abhā, and which he calls ‘settlements (’awṭān) of ‘Asir’, adding ‘and these are called the land of Ṭawd’. Similarly, on p. 70, he speaks of Ṭawd in association with the Wādῑ Baysh.

2 Jeffery, A., The foreign vocabulary of the Qur'ān, Baroda, 1938, 108–9; Nöldeke, Neue Beiträge, 59–60.Google Scholar