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Liḥyān
(2,153 words)
Liḥyān is the name of an Arabian tribe known from Dadanitic inscriptions at the oasis of Dadan (biblical Dedān, modern al-ʿUlā), from Aramaic inscriptions at Taymāʾ, and from Sabaic inscriptions in Yemen, dated to the mid-first millennium B.C.E. The tribe is also mentioned in some Safaitic graffiti of the early centuries C.E. and by historians from the early Islamic period. Some members of the Banū Liḥyān are said to live near Mecca today. It is, however, only an assumption that these sources all refer to the same people. 1. Epigraphic evidence Liḥyān is first mentioned in a Sabaic in…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
Dadanitic
(863 words)
Dadanitic is the name now given to a group of Ancient North Arabian (ANA) inscriptions centred on the oasis of Dadan (biblical Dedān, modern al-ʿUlā), in northwestern Arabia but with scattered examples elsewhere, principally around the nearby, rival oasis of Taymāʾ. Macdonald (Reflections, 33) showed that the previous division of these inscriptions into “Dedanite” and “Lihyanite” was based on a mistaken analysis of the script. The ANA scripts belong to the “South Semitic script family” (Macdonal…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
