Lihyan, the Glossary
Lihyan (لحيان, Liḥyān; Greek: Lechienoi), also called Dadān or Dedan, was a powerful and highly organized ancient Arab kingdom that played a vital cultural and economic role in the north-western region of the Arabian Peninsula and used Dadanitic language.[1]
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61 relations: Aelius Gallus, Al-Kutbay, Al-Ula, Ancient Egypt, Ancient history, Ancient North Arabian, Arabian Peninsula, Arabs, Aramaic, Aretas IV Philopatris, Austria, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Cyprus, Dadanitic, Dedan (Bible), Ethnonym, Eye of Horus, Ezekiel, Fadak, Gaza City, Geshem the Arabian, Greek language, Gulf of Aqaba, Hebrew Bible, Hegra (Mada'in Salih), Hellenistic period, Imperial Aramaic, Incense trade route, Invasion of Banu Lahyan, Jawad Ali, Khaybar, Levant, Lihyanite King Statue (Saudi Arabia), Medina, Michael C. A. Macdonald, Minaean language, Minaeans, Monarchy, Nabataean Kingdom, Nabataeans, Nabonidus, Neo-Babylonian Empire, Palestine (region), Palmyrene Aramaic, Ptolemaic dynasty, Qaryat al-Faw, Qedarites, Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia, Sabaeans, Sabaic, ... Expand index (11 more) »
- Adnanites
Aelius Gallus
Gaius Aelius Gallus was a Roman prefect of Egypt from 26 to 24 BC.
Al-Kutbay
Al-Kutba' (الكتبي) was a north Arabian god.
Al-Ula
Al-Ula (translit) is an ancient Arabian oasis city located in Medina Province, Saudi Arabia.
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
Ancient history
Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity.
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Ancient North Arabian
Ancient North Arabian (ANA) is a collection of scripts and a language or family of languages under the North Arabian languages branch along with Old Arabic that were used in north and central Arabia and south Syria from the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE.
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Arabian Peninsula
The Arabian Peninsula (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَة الْعَرَبِيَّة,, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب,, "Island of the Arabs"), or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.
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Arabs
The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.
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Aramaic
Aramaic (ˀərāmiṯ; arāmāˀiṯ) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, southeastern Anatolia, Eastern Arabia and the Sinai Peninsula, where it has been continually written and spoken in different varieties for over three thousand years.
Aretas IV Philopatris
Aretas IV Philopatris (Nabataean Aramaic: 𐢗𐢓𐢆 𐢊𐢛𐢞𐢞 𐢛𐢊𐢒 Ḥārītaṯ Rāḥem-ʿammeh "Aretas, friend of his people") was the King of the Nabataeans from roughly 9 BC to 40 AD.
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Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.
Austrian Academy of Sciences
The Austrian Academy of Sciences (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften; ÖAW) is a legal entity under the special protection of the Republic of Austria.
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Cyprus
Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Dadanitic
Dadanitic is the script and possibly the language of the oasis of Dadān (modern Al-'Ula) and the kingdom of Liḥyān in northwestern Arabia, spoken probably some time during the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Dedan (Bible)
Dedan has several different meanings in the Hebrew Bible. Lihyan and Dedan (Bible) are Arab ethnic groups and history of Saudi Arabia.
Ethnonym
An ethnonym is a name applied to a given ethnic group.
Eye of Horus
The Eye of Horus, also known as left wedjat eye or udjat eye, specular to the Eye of Ra (right wedjat eye), is a concept and symbol in ancient Egyptian religion that represents well-being, healing, and protection.
Ezekiel
Ezekiel, also spelled Ezechiel (יְחֶזְקֵאל; Greek), was an Israelite priest.
Fadak
Fadak (فدك) was a village with fertile land in an oasis near Medina. Lihyan and Fadak are history of Saudi Arabia.
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Gaza City
Gaza, also called Gaza City, is a Palestinian city in the Gaza Strip.
Geshem the Arabian
Geshem the Arabian (or Geshem the Arab; Hebrew: גֶשֶׁם הָעַרְבִי) is an Arab man mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
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Greek language
Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Gulf of Aqaba
The Gulf of Aqaba (Khalīj al-ʿAqaba) or Gulf of Eilat (Mifrátz Eilát) is a large gulf at the northern tip of the Red Sea, east of the Sinai Peninsula and west of the Arabian Peninsula.
Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Hebrew), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (Hebrew), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim.
Hegra (Mada'in Salih)
Hegra (Ἕγρα), also known as Mada’in Salih (translit), is an archaeological site located in the area of Al-'Ula within Medina Province in the Hejaz region, Saudi Arabia. Lihyan and Hegra (Mada'in Salih) are history of Saudi Arabia.
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Hellenistic period
In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the Roman conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year, which eliminated the last major Hellenistic kingdom.
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Imperial Aramaic
Imperial Aramaic is a linguistic term, coined by modern scholars in order to designate a specific historical variety of Aramaic language.
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Incense trade route
The incense trade route was an ancient network of major land and sea trading routes linking the Mediterranean world with eastern and southern sources of incense, spices and other luxury goods, stretching from Mediterranean ports across the Levant and Egypt through Northern East Africa and Arabia to India and beyond.
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Invasion of Banu Lahyan
The Invasion of Banu Lahyan took place in September, 627 AD in Rabi' al-awwal or Jumada Al-Awwal, 6 AH of the Islamic calendar.
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Jawad Ali
Jawad Ali (1907–1987) was an Iraqi historian and academic who specialized in the history of both Islam and the Arabs.
Khaybar
KhaybarOther standardized Arabic transliterations: /. Anglicized pronunciation:,. (خَيْبَر) is an oasis in Medina Province, Saudi Arabia, situated some north of the city of Medina.
Levant
The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term ''Middle East''.
Lihyanite King Statue (Saudi Arabia)
The Lihyanite King Statue (Monumental Statue) is a statue likely depicting an ancient Lihyanite king. Lihyan and Lihyanite King Statue (Saudi Arabia) are Adnanites and history of Saudi Arabia.
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Medina
Medina, officially Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah, is the capital of Medina Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia.
Michael C. A. Macdonald
Michael C. A. Macdonald FBA is a research associate of the Khalili Research Centre, honorary fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and fellow of the British Academy.
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Minaean language
The Minaean language (also Minaic, Madhabaic or Madhābic) was an Old South Arabian or Ṣayhadic language spoken in Yemen in the times of the Old South Arabian civilisation.
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Minaeans
The Minaean people were the inhabitants of the kingdom of Ma'in (Minaean: 𐩣𐩲𐩬 Maʿīn; modern Arabic معين Maʿīn) in modern-day Yemen, dating back to the 6th century BCE.
Monarchy
A monarchy is a form of government in which a person, the monarch, is head of state for life or until abdication.
Nabataean Kingdom
The Nabataean Kingdom (Nabataean Aramaic: 𐢕𐢃𐢋𐢈 Nabāṭū), also named Nabatea, was a political state of the Nabataeans during classical antiquity.
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Nabataeans
The Nabataeans or Nabateans (translit) were an ancient Arab people who inhabited northern Arabia and the southern Levant. Lihyan and Nabataeans are Arab ethnic groups.
Nabonidus
Nabonidus (Babylonian cuneiform: Nabû-naʾid, meaning "May Nabu be exalted" or "Nabu is praised") was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling from 556 BC to the fall of Babylon to the Achaemenian Empire under Cyrus the Great in 539 BC.
Neo-Babylonian Empire
The Neo-Babylonian Empire or Second Babylonian Empire, historically known as the Chaldean Empire, was the last polity ruled by monarchs native to Mesopotamia until Faisal II in the 20th century.
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Palestine (region)
The region of Palestine, also known as Historic Palestine, is a geographical area in West Asia.
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Palmyrene Aramaic
Palmyrene Aramaic was a primarily Western Aramaic dialect, exhibiting Eastern Aramaic grammatical features and hence often regarded as a dialect continuum between the Eastern and Western Aramaic branches.
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Ptolemaic dynasty
The Ptolemaic dynasty (Πτολεμαῖοι, Ptolemaioi), also known as the Lagid dynasty (Λαγίδαι, Lagidai; after Ptolemy I's father, Lagus), was a Macedonian Greek royal house which ruled the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Ancient Egypt during the Hellenistic period.
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Qaryat al-Faw
Qaryat Al Faw (قرية الفاو) was the capital of the first Kindah kingdom.
Qedarites
The Qedarites (qdr) were an ancient tribal confederation of Arabia centred in their capital Dumat al-jandal in the Al-Jawf Province. Lihyan and Qedarites are Arab ethnic groups and history of Saudi Arabia.
Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia
Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia included indigenous Arabian polytheism, ancient Semitic religions, Christianity, Judaism, Mandaeism, and Zoroastrianism. Lihyan and religion in pre-Islamic Arabia are history of Saudi Arabia.
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Sabaeans
The Sabaeans or Sabeans (𐩪𐩨𐩱|; as-Sabaʾiyyūn; Səḇāʾīm) were an ancient group of South Arabians.
Sabaic
Sabaic, sometimes referred to as Sabaean, was an Old South Arabian language that was spoken between c. 1000 BC and the 6th century AD by the Sabaeans.
Saddle
A saddle is a supportive structure for a rider of an animal, fastened to an animal's back by a girth.
Safaitic
Safaitic (Al-Ṣafāʾiyyah) is a variety of the South Semitic scripts used by the Arabs in southern Syria and northern Jordan in the Ḥarrah region, to carve rock inscriptions in various dialects of Old Arabic and Ancient North Arabian. Lihyan and Safaitic are Arab ethnic groups and history of Saudi Arabia.
Sinai Peninsula
The Sinai Peninsula, or simply Sinai (سِينَاء; سينا; Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ), is a peninsula in Egypt, and the only part of the country located in Asia.
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Strabo
StraboStrabo (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed.
Tayma
Tayma (Taymanitic: 𐪉𐪃𐪒,, vocalized as:; translit) is a large oasis with a long history of settlement, located in northwestern Saudi Arabia at the point where the trade route between Medina and Dumah (Sakakah) begins to cross the Nafud desert. Lihyan and Tayma are history of Saudi Arabia.
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Toponymy
Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of toponyms (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types.
Transjordan (region)
Transjordan, the East Bank, or the Transjordanian Highlands (شرق الأردن), is the part of the Southern Levant east of the Jordan River, mostly contained in present-day Jordan.
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Tyre, Lebanon
Tyre (translit; translit; Týros) or Tyr, Sur, or Sour is a city in Lebanon, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, though in medieval times for some centuries by just a small population.
Vienna
Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.
Wadd
Wadd (وَدّ) (Ancient South Arabian script: 𐩥𐩵) is a pre-Islamic Arabian god.
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Winged sun
The winged sun is a solar symbol associated with divinity, royalty, and power in the Ancient Near East (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Persia).
See also
Adnanites
- Adnan
- Adnanites
- Al-Dith ibn Adnan
- Ancestors of Muhammad
- Banu Dhuhl
- Hagar
- Ishmael
- Iyad (tribe)
- Lihyan
- Lihyanite King Statue (Saudi Arabia)
- Ma'ad ibn Adnan
- Mudar
- Mudar ibn Nizar
- Muhammad
- Nizar ibn Ma'ad
- Rabi`ah
- Rashidun caliphs
- Sheikh Edebali
- Suffering Man Statue (Saudi Arabia)
- Tamim ibn Murr
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lihyan
Also known as Dadan, Dadān, Dedanite, Dedanites, Lihyanic, Lihyanite, Lihyanites, Lihynite, Liḥyan, Liḥyanite kingdom, Liḥyān.
, Saddle, Safaitic, Sinai Peninsula, Strabo, Tayma, Toponymy, Transjordan (region), Tyre, Lebanon, Vienna, Wadd, Winged sun.