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Sabaeans

January 25, 2024

Not to be confused with the Sabians, also spelled Sabaeans or Sabeans, a religious group mentioned in the Quran whose name was adopted by various sects.

The Sabaeans or Sabeans (Sabaean: 𐩪𐩨𐩱, S¹Bʾ; Arabic: ٱلسَّبَئِيُّوْن, romanized: as-Sabaʾiyyūn; Hebrew: סְבָאִים, romanized: Səḇāʾīm) were an ancient group of South Arabians.[2] They spoke Sabaic, one of the Old South Arabian languages.[3] They founded the kingdom of Sabaʾ (Arabic: سَبَأ) in modern-day Yemen,[4][5] which is considered to be the biblical land of Sheba[6][7][8] and "the oldest and most important of the South Arabian kingdoms".[2]

Sabaean Kingdom
𐩪𐩨𐩱 (Sabaean)
مَمْلَكَة سَبَأ (Arabic)
1200 BCE–275 CE
Coat of arms
Map of the Kingdom in the 8th century BCE
CapitalMa'rib
Common languagesSabaic
Religion
South Arabian paganism
Demonym(s)Sabaean
GovernmentTheocracy (Early)
Monarchy (Late)[1]
Mukarrib 
• 700–680 BCE
Karibi-ilu
• 620–600 BCE
Karib'il Watar
• 60–20 BCE
Ilasaros
Historical eraIron Age to Antiquity
• Established
1200 BCE
• Disestablished
275 CE
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Today part ofYemen or South Arabia

The exact date of the foundation of Sabaʾ is a point of disagreement among scholars. Kenneth Kitchen dates the kingdom to between 1200 BCE and 275 CE, with its capital at Maʾrib, in what is now Yemen.[9] On the other hand, Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman believe that "the Sabaean kingdom began to flourish only from the eighth century BC onward" and that the story of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba is "an anachronistic seventh-century set piece."[10] The Kingdom fell after a long but sporadic civil war between several Yemenite dynasties claiming kingship;[11][12] from this, the late Himyarite Kingdom arose as victors.[13]

Sabaeans are mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. In the Quran,[14] they are described as either Sabaʾ (سَبَأ, not to be confused with Ṣābiʾ, صَابِئ),[4][5] or as Qawm Tubbaʿ (Arabic: قَوْم تُبَّع, lit. 'People of Tubbaʿ').[15][16]

History edit

 
"Bronze man" found in Al-Baydā' (ancient Nashqum, Kingdom of Saba'), 6th–5th century BCE, the Louvre Museum

The origin of the Sabaean Kingdom is uncertain.[17] Kenneth Kitchen dates the kingdom to around 1200 BCE,[9] while Robert Nebes states that the formation of the Sabean polity took place in the 10th century BCE at the latest, noting that the earliest known Sabean ruler, Yada'il bin Damar'ali, dates to before 900 BCE.[18] Originally, the Sabaeans were one of the shaʿbs (Sabaean: 𐩦𐩲𐩨), "communities", on the edge of the Sayhad desert. Very early, at the beginning of the 1st millennium BC, the political leaders (Sabaean: 𐩱𐩣𐩡𐩫, romanized: ʾmlk) of this tribal community managed to create a huge commonwealth of shaʿbs occupying most of South Arabian territory and took the title Sabaean: 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 𐩪𐩨𐩱, romanized: mkrb sbʾ, "Mukarrib of the Sabaeans".[19]

Several factors caused a significant decline of the Sabaean state and civilization by the end of the 1st millennium BC.[20] Saba' was conquered by the Himyarites in the first century BCE; but after the disintegration of the first Himyarite Kingdom of the Kings of Saba' and Dhū Raydān, the Middle Sabaean Kingdom reappeared in the early second century.[21] Note that the Middle Sabaean Kingdom was different from the Ancient Sabaean Kingdom in many important respects.[22] The Sabaean kingdom was finally conquered by the Ḥimyarites in the late 3rd century, and at that time, the capital was Ma'rib. It was located along the strip of desert called Sayhad by medieval Arab geographers, which is now named Ramlat al-Sab'atayn.

The Sabaean people used an ancient Semitic tongue of their own, Sabaean or Himyaritic. Each of these peoples had regional kingdoms in ancient Yemen, with the Minaeans in Wādī al-Jawf to the north, the Sabeans on the southwestern tip, stretching from the highlands to the sea; the Qatabānians to the east of them, and the Ḥaḑramites east of them. The Sabaeans, like the other Yemenite kingdoms of the same period, were involved in the extremely lucrative spice trade, especially frankincense and myrrh.[23] They left behind many inscriptions in the monumental ancient South Arabian script or Musnad, as well as numerous documents in the related cursive Zabūr script, their presence is also felt in Africa where they left numerous traces such as inscriptions and temples that date back to the Sabean colonization of Africa.[24][25][26][27]

Religious practices edit

Further information: South Arabian paganism
 
Inscription that shows religious practice during pilgrimage

Muslim writer Muhammad Shukri al-Alusi compares their religious practices to Islam in his Bulugh al-'Arab fi Ahwal al-'Arab:[28]

The Arabs during the pre-Islamic period used to practice certain things that were included in the Islamic Sharia. They, for example, did not marry both a mother and her daughter. They considered marrying two sisters simultaneously to be the most heinous crime. They also censured anyone who married his stepmother, and called him dhaizan. They made the major hajj and the minor umra pilgrimage to the Ka'ba, performed the circumambulation around the Ka'ba tawaf, ran seven times between Mounts Safa and Marwa sa'y, threw rocks and washed themselves after sexual intercourse. They also gargled, sniffed water up into their noses, clipped their fingernails, removed all pubic hair and performed ritual circumcision. Likewise, they cut off the right hand of a thief and stoned Adulterers.

According to heresiographer Shahrastain, Sabaeans accept both the sensible and intelligible world, but do not follow religious laws, but center their worship on spiritual entities.[29]

Mentions in religious texts edit

Main article: Sheba

Baha'i Writings edit

Sabaeans are mentioned many times in the Baha’i Writings as regional people and of their religious practice. The religion is considered among the true religion of God as an early part of a historical process of progressive revelation where God guides humanity by sending Divine Educators throughout time to teach people of the religion of God.[30] They have also been mentioned in the book Secrets of Divine Civilization by `Abdu’l-Bahá’ as those peoples who have possibly contributed to the foundations of the science of logic.[31]

Bible edit

Sabaeans are mentioned in the biblical books of Genesis, 1 Kings (which includes the account of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba), Isaiah, Joel, Ezekiel and Job. The latter mentions Sabaeans as having slain Job's livestock and servants.[32] In Isaiah they are described as "tall of stature".[33]

Qur'an edit

 
Ruins of the historical dam of the former Sabaean capital of Ma'rib, amidst the Sarat Mountains of present-day Yemen

The name of Saba' is mentioned in the Qur'an in the 2nd, 27th[34] and 34th[35] sūrahs, with the latter being named after the area. In the 2nd sūrah, Al-Baqarah, they are mentioned as follows: “Those who believe, and those who are Jewish, and the Christians, and the Sabeans—any who believe in God and the Last Day, and act righteously—will have their reward with their Lord; they have nothing to fear, nor will they grieve.” Their mention in the 27th sūrah refers to the area in the context of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, whereas their mention in the 34th surah refers to the Sayl al-ʿArim (Flood of the Dam), in which the historic dam was ruined by flooding. As for the phrase Qawm Tubbaʿ ("People of Tubbaʿ"), which occurs in the 44th[36] and 50th[37] Chapters, Tubbaʿ was a title for kings of Saba', like for Himyarites.[14]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Houtsma, Martijn Theodoor (1993). E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936. Vol. v5. Leiden: BRILL. p. 292. ISBN 978-90-04-09791-9. OCLC 258059170 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ a b . British Museum. Archived from the original on May 4, 2015. Retrieved 2013-02-22.
  3. ^ Stuart Munro-Hay, Aksum: An African Civilization of Late Antiquity, 1991.
  4. ^ a b Quran 27:6-93
  5. ^ a b Quran 34:15-18
  6. ^ Burrowes, Robert D. (2010). Historical Dictionary of Yemen. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 319. ISBN 978-0810855281.
  7. ^ St. John Simpson (2002). Queen of Sheba: treasures from ancient Yemen. British Museum Press. p. 8. ISBN 0714111511.
  8. ^ Kitchen, Kenneth Anderson (2003). On the Reliability of the Old Testament. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 116. ISBN 0802849601.
  9. ^ a b Kenneth A. Kitchen The World of "Ancient Arabia" Series. Documentation for Ancient Arabia. Part I. Chronological Framework and Historical Sources p.110
  10. ^ Finkelstein, Israel; Silberman, Neil Asher, David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition, p. 171
  11. ^ Muller, D. H. (1893), Himyarische Inschriften [Himyarian inscriptions] (in German), Mordtmann, p. 53
  12. ^ Javad Ali, The Articulate in the History of Arabs before Islam, Volume 2, p. 420
  13. ^ Nebes 2023, p. 303.
  14. ^ a b Wheeler, Brannon M. (2002). Prophets in the Quran: An Introduction to the Quran and Muslim Exegesis. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 166. ISBN 0-8264-4956-5 – via Google Books.
  15. ^ Quran 44:37 -Yusuf Ali
  16. ^ Quran 50:12-14
  17. ^ Nebes 2023, p. 330.
  18. ^ Nebes 2023, p. 332.
  19. ^ Korotayev 1996, pp. 2–3.
  20. ^ Korotayev 1995, p. 98.
  21. ^ Korotayev 1996.
  22. ^ KOROTAYEV, A. (1994). Middle Sabaic BN Z: clan group, or head of clan?. Journal of semitic studies, 39(2), 207-219.
  23. ^ "Yemen | Facts, History & News". InfoPlease.
  24. ^ The Athenaeum. J. Lection. 1894. p. 88.
  25. ^ Poluha, Eva (2016-01-28). Thinking Outside the Box: Essays on the History and (Under)Development of Ethiopia. Xlibris Corporation. ISBN 978-1-5144-2223-6.
  26. ^ The Babylonian and Oriental Record. D. Nutt. 1894. p. 107.
  27. ^ Japp, Sarah; Gerlach, Iris; Hitgen, Holger; Schnelle, Mike (2011). "Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Sabaʾ and DʿMT — New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia". Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies. 41: 145–160. ISSN 0308-8421.
  28. ^ al-Alusi, Muhammad Shukri. Bulugh al-'Arab fi Ahwal al-'Arab, Vol. 2. p. 122.
  29. ^ Walbridge, John. “Explaining Away the Greek Gods in Islam.” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 59, no. 3, 1998, pp. 389–403. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3653893.
  30. ^ "Bahá'í Reference Library - Directives from the Guardian, Pages 51-52". reference.bahai.org. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  31. ^ "The Secret of Divine Civilization | Bahá'í Reference Library". www.bahai.org. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  32. ^ Job 1:14–15
  33. ^ Isaiah 45:14
  34. ^ Quran 27:15-44
  35. ^ Quran 34:15-17
  36. ^ Quran 44:37 -Yusuf Ali
  37. ^ Quran 50:12-14

Further reading edit

  • Bafaqīh, M. ‛A., L'unification du Yémen antique. La lutte entre Saba’, Himyar et le Hadramawt de Ier au IIIème siècle de l'ère chrétienne. Paris, 1990 (Bibliothèque de Raydan, 1).
  • Klotz, David (2015). "Darius I and the Sabaeans: Ancient Partners in Red Sea Navigation". Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 74 (2): 267–280. doi:10.1086/682344. S2CID 163013181.
  • Korotayev, Andrey (1995). Ancient Yemen. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-922237-1.
  • Korotayev, Andrey (1996). Pre-Islamic Yemen. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 3-447-03679-6.
  • Nebes, Norbert (2023). "Early Saba and Its Neighbors". In Radner, Karen; Moeller, Nadine; Potts, D. T. (eds.). The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: The Age of Persia. Vol. 5. Oxford University Press. pp. 299–375. ISBN 978-0-19-068766-3.
  • Ryckmans, J., Müller, W. W., and ‛Abdallah, Yu., Textes du Yémen Antique inscrits sur bois. Louvain-la-Neuve, 1994 (Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 43).
  • Article at Encyclopædia Britannica

External links edit

  • S. Arabian "Inscription of Abraha" in the Sabaean language 2016-02-03 at the Wayback Machine, at Smithsonian/NMNH website

January 25, 2024
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Not to be confused with the Sabians also spelled Sabaeans or Sabeans a religious group mentioned in the Quran whose name was adopted by various sects The Sabaeans or Sabeans Sabaean 𐩪𐩨𐩱 S Bʾ Arabic ٱلس ب ئ ي و ن romanized as Sabaʾiyyun Hebrew ס ב א ים romanized Seḇaʾim were an ancient group of South Arabians 2 They spoke Sabaic one of the Old South Arabian languages 3 They founded the kingdom of Sabaʾ Arabic س ب أ in modern day Yemen 4 5 which is considered to be the biblical land of Sheba 6 7 8 and the oldest and most important of the South Arabian kingdoms 2 Sabaean Kingdom𐩪𐩨𐩱 Sabaean م م ل ك ة س ب أ Arabic 1200 BCE 275 CECoat of armsMap of the Kingdom in the 8th century BCECapitalMa ribCommon languagesSabaicReligionSouth Arabian paganismDemonym s SabaeanGovernmentTheocracy Early Monarchy Late 1 Mukarrib 700 680 BCEKaribi ilu 620 600 BCEKarib il Watar 60 20 BCEIlasarosHistorical eraIron Age to Antiquity Established1200 BCE Disestablished275 CEPreceded by Succeeded byKingdom of Awsan Himyarite KingdomToday part ofYemen or South ArabiaThe exact date of the foundation of Sabaʾ is a point of disagreement among scholars Kenneth Kitchen dates the kingdom to between 1200 BCE and 275 CE with its capital at Maʾrib in what is now Yemen 9 On the other hand Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman believe that the Sabaean kingdom began to flourish only from the eighth century BC onward and that the story of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba is an anachronistic seventh century set piece 10 The Kingdom fell after a long but sporadic civil war between several Yemenite dynasties claiming kingship 11 12 from this the late Himyarite Kingdom arose as victors 13 Sabaeans are mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible In the Quran 14 they are described as either Sabaʾ س ب أ not to be confused with Ṣabiʾ ص اب ئ 4 5 or as Qawm Tubbaʿ Arabic ق و م ت ب ع lit People of Tubbaʿ 15 16 Contents 1 History 2 Religious practices 3 Mentions in religious texts 3 1 Baha i Writings 3 2 Bible 3 3 Qur an 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External linksHistory edit nbsp Bronze man found in Al Bayda ancient Nashqum Kingdom of Saba 6th 5th century BCE the Louvre MuseumThe origin of the Sabaean Kingdom is uncertain 17 Kenneth Kitchen dates the kingdom to around 1200 BCE 9 while Robert Nebes states that the formation of the Sabean polity took place in the 10th century BCE at the latest noting that the earliest known Sabean ruler Yada il bin Damar ali dates to before 900 BCE 18 Originally the Sabaeans were one of the shaʿbs Sabaean 𐩦𐩲𐩨 communities on the edge of the Sayhad desert Very early at the beginning of the 1st millennium BC the political leaders Sabaean 𐩱𐩣𐩡𐩫 romanized ʾmlk of this tribal community managed to create a huge commonwealth of shaʿbs occupying most of South Arabian territory and took the title Sabaean 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 𐩪𐩨𐩱 romanized mkrb sbʾ Mukarrib of the Sabaeans 19 Several factors caused a significant decline of the Sabaean state and civilization by the end of the 1st millennium BC 20 Saba was conquered by the Himyarites in the first century BCE but after the disintegration of the first Himyarite Kingdom of the Kings of Saba and Dhu Raydan the Middle Sabaean Kingdom reappeared in the early second century 21 Note that the Middle Sabaean Kingdom was different from the Ancient Sabaean Kingdom in many important respects 22 The Sabaean kingdom was finally conquered by the Ḥimyarites in the late 3rd century and at that time the capital was Ma rib It was located along the strip of desert called Sayhad by medieval Arab geographers which is now named Ramlat al Sab atayn The Sabaean people used an ancient Semitic tongue of their own Sabaean or Himyaritic Each of these peoples had regional kingdoms in ancient Yemen with the Minaeans in Wadi al Jawf to the north the Sabeans on the southwestern tip stretching from the highlands to the sea the Qatabanians to the east of them and the Ḥaḑramites east of them The Sabaeans like the other Yemenite kingdoms of the same period were involved in the extremely lucrative spice trade especially frankincense and myrrh 23 They left behind many inscriptions in the monumental ancient South Arabian script or Musnad as well as numerous documents in the related cursive Zabur script their presence is also felt in Africa where they left numerous traces such as inscriptions and temples that date back to the Sabean colonization of Africa 24 25 26 27 Religious practices editFurther information South Arabian paganism nbsp Inscription that shows religious practice during pilgrimageMuslim writer Muhammad Shukri al Alusi compares their religious practices to Islam in his Bulugh al Arab fi Ahwal al Arab 28 The Arabs during the pre Islamic period used to practice certain things that were included in the Islamic Sharia They for example did not marry both a mother and her daughter They considered marrying two sisters simultaneously to be the most heinous crime They also censured anyone who married his stepmother and called him dhaizan They made the major hajj and the minor umra pilgrimage to the Ka ba performed the circumambulation around the Ka ba tawaf ran seven times between Mounts Safa and Marwa sa y threw rocks and washed themselves after sexual intercourse They also gargled sniffed water up into their noses clipped their fingernails removed all pubic hair and performed ritual circumcision Likewise they cut off the right hand of a thief and stoned Adulterers According to heresiographer Shahrastain Sabaeans accept both the sensible and intelligible world but do not follow religious laws but center their worship on spiritual entities 29 Mentions in religious texts editMain article Sheba Baha i Writings edit Sabaeans are mentioned many times in the Baha i Writings as regional people and of their religious practice The religion is considered among the true religion of God as an early part of a historical process of progressive revelation where God guides humanity by sending Divine Educators throughout time to teach people of the religion of God 30 They have also been mentioned in the book Secrets of Divine Civilization by Abdu l Baha as those peoples who have possibly contributed to the foundations of the science of logic 31 Bible edit Sabaeans are mentioned in the biblical books of Genesis 1 Kings which includes the account of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba Isaiah Joel Ezekiel and Job The latter mentions Sabaeans as having slain Job s livestock and servants 32 In Isaiah they are described as tall of stature 33 Qur an edit nbsp Ruins of the historical dam of the former Sabaean capital of Ma rib amidst the Sarat Mountains of present day YemenThe name of Saba is mentioned in the Qur an in the 2nd 27th 34 and 34th 35 surahs with the latter being named after the area In the 2nd surah Al Baqarah they are mentioned as follows Those who believe and those who are Jewish and the Christians and the Sabeans any who believe in God and the Last Day and act righteously will have their reward with their Lord they have nothing to fear nor will they grieve Their mention in the 27th surah refers to the area in the context of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba whereas their mention in the 34th surah refers to the Sayl al ʿArim Flood of the Dam in which the historic dam was ruined by flooding As for the phrase Qawm Tubbaʿ People of Tubbaʿ which occurs in the 44th 36 and 50th 37 Chapters Tubbaʿ was a title for kings of Saba like for Himyarites 14 See also editAncient South Arabian art Azd Hamdan tribe Minaean KingdomReferences edit Houtsma Martijn Theodoor 1993 E J Brill s First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913 1936 Vol v5 Leiden BRILL p 292 ISBN 978 90 04 09791 9 OCLC 258059170 via Google Books a b The kingdoms of ancient South Arabia British Museum Archived from the original on May 4 2015 Retrieved 2013 02 22 Stuart Munro Hay Aksum An African Civilization of Late Antiquity 1991 a b Quran 27 6 93 a b Quran 34 15 18 Burrowes Robert D 2010 Historical Dictionary of Yemen Rowman amp Littlefield p 319 ISBN 978 0810855281 St John Simpson 2002 Queen of Sheba treasures from ancient Yemen British Museum Press p 8 ISBN 0714111511 Kitchen Kenneth Anderson 2003 On the Reliability of the Old Testament Wm B Eerdmans Publishing p 116 ISBN 0802849601 a b Kenneth A Kitchen The World of Ancient Arabia Series Documentation for Ancient Arabia Part I Chronological Framework and Historical Sources p 110 Finkelstein Israel Silberman Neil Asher David and Solomon In Search of the Bible s Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition p 171 Muller D H 1893 Himyarische Inschriften Himyarian inscriptions in German Mordtmann p 53 Javad Ali The Articulate in the History of Arabs before Islam Volume 2 p 420 Nebes 2023 p 303 a b Wheeler Brannon M 2002 Prophets in the Quran An Introduction to the Quran and Muslim Exegesis Continuum International Publishing Group p 166 ISBN 0 8264 4956 5 via Google Books Quran 44 37 Yusuf Ali Quran 50 12 14 Nebes 2023 p 330 Nebes 2023 p 332 Korotayev 1996 pp 2 3 Korotayev 1995 p 98 Korotayev 1996 KOROTAYEV A 1994 Middle Sabaic BN Z clan group or head of clan Journal of semitic studies 39 2 207 219 Yemen Facts History amp News InfoPlease The Athenaeum J Lection 1894 p 88 Poluha Eva 2016 01 28 Thinking Outside the Box Essays on the History and Under Development of Ethiopia Xlibris Corporation ISBN 978 1 5144 2223 6 The Babylonian and Oriental Record D Nutt 1894 p 107 Japp Sarah Gerlach Iris Hitgen Holger Schnelle Mike 2011 Yeha and Hawelti cultural contacts between Sabaʾ and DʿMT New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 41 145 160 ISSN 0308 8421 al Alusi Muhammad Shukri Bulugh al Arab fi Ahwal al Arab Vol 2 p 122 Walbridge John Explaining Away the Greek Gods in Islam Journal of the History of Ideas vol 59 no 3 1998 pp 389 403 JSTOR www jstor org stable 3653893 Baha i Reference Library Directives from the Guardian Pages 51 52 reference bahai org Retrieved 2022 11 04 The Secret of Divine Civilization Baha i Reference Library www bahai org Retrieved 2022 11 04 Job 1 14 15 Isaiah 45 14 Quran 27 15 44 Quran 34 15 17 Quran 44 37 Yusuf Ali Quran 50 12 14Further reading editBafaqih M A L unification du Yemen antique La lutte entre Saba Himyar et le Hadramawt de Ier au IIIeme siecle de l ere chretienne Paris 1990 Bibliotheque de Raydan 1 Klotz David 2015 Darius I and the Sabaeans Ancient Partners in Red Sea Navigation Journal of Near Eastern Studies 74 2 267 280 doi 10 1086 682344 S2CID 163013181 Korotayev Andrey 1995 Ancient Yemen Oxford Oxford University Press ISBN 0 19 922237 1 Korotayev Andrey 1996 Pre Islamic Yemen Wiesbaden Harrassowitz Verlag ISBN 3 447 03679 6 Nebes Norbert 2023 Early Saba and Its Neighbors In Radner Karen Moeller Nadine Potts D T eds The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East The Age of Persia Vol 5 Oxford University Press pp 299 375 ISBN 978 0 19 068766 3 Ryckmans J Muller W W and Abdallah Yu Textes du Yemen Antique inscrits sur bois Louvain la Neuve 1994 Publications de l Institut Orientaliste de Louvain 43 Article at Encyclopaedia BritannicaExternal links editS Arabian Inscription of Abraha in the Sabaean language Archived 2016 02 03 at the Wayback Machine at Smithsonian NMNH website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Sabaeans amp oldid 1197043409, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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