Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Pages in category "Arabian mythology" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. ʿĀd;
In the 13th century, an Arabic epic poem entitled Antar was created based on Antarah ibn Shaddad, a pre-Islamic Arabian-Abyssinian warrior-poet. In 1898 the French painter Étienne Dinet published his translation of Antar , which brought Antar bin Shaddad to European notice. [ 1 ]
More recent scholarship has approached Mavia within the context of the history of Arab warrior queens who preceded her, most prominent among them, Zenobia. For example, Irfan Shahid notes that the armies of both queens reached the same waterway dividing Asia from Europe , with Mavia even crossing the Bosporus into Byzantium .
Queen Mavia (r 375–425) was an Arab warrior-queen, who ruled over the Tanukhids, a confederation of semi-nomadic Arabs, in southern Syria, in the latter half of the fourth century. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] She led her troops in a rebellion against late Roman rule , riding at the head of her army into Phoenicia and Palestine .
ʿAntarah was born in Najd in the Arabian Peninsula. His father was Arab, Shaddād al-ʿAbsī, a respected warrior of the Banu Abs under their chief Zuhayr. [1] His mother was an Ethiopian woman named Zabībah. [2] Described as one of three "Arab crows" (Aghribah al-'Arab) - famous Arab with a black complexion, [3] ʿAntarah
Pages in category "Arabian legendary creatures" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Anqa;
The two types of myth and legends that make up Islamic mythology are cosmogony and eschatology. Cosmogony is a part of cosmogonic and cosmological myths, which are myths that deal in matters of the creation and origins of the universe, and more specially, the world. [3]
Dhirarr ibn al-Azwar Al-Asadi (Arabic: ضرار بن الأزور الأسدي) also spelled as Diraar or Dirarr (original name Diraar ibn Malik), was a skilled warrior since before the time of Islam who participated in the Early Muslim conquests and a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. [1] [2] Dhiraar was known to his tribe as al-Azwar.