Real work dedicated to tragic by episode stories pre-Islamic United Arab Emirates - the massacre the arabs Banu Tomim in Sasanian fortresses al-Mushakkar. Intelligence about this the event in sources they wear it legendary personality. However analysis these narratives in comparison between by myself and with in other ways with data gives possibility approximately date it these events and imagine to myself their motion.
words: Key Tamimites, Khosrow I Anushirvan, Sasanian policy in Arabia.
The massacre of the Arabs of the Banu Tamim Tribal alliance (Tamimites) in the fortress of al-Mushakkar 1, known as the" day of al-Mushakkar " (yaum al-Mushakkar)2, is one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of pre-Islamic Arabia. The deaths of many people who trusted the false invitation remained long in the memory of the Arabs; narrative sources have brought the message of it to us. But, as is often the case, in narratives about the events of the early Middle Ages, the sources strongly differ from each other. This paper attempts to reconstruct and explain this event.
In the reports of sources about the "day of al-Mushakkara", three storylines can be distinguished. One of them is presented in the monumental historical treatise at-Tabari (838/839-923), from which it was drawn by another prominent scholar and thinker of the Islamic world, Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406). According to it, after the Sassanid conquest of Yemen, 3 the newly acquired lands were ruled for some time by the Persian commander who led the conquest campaign - Khwarrazad, son of Narse, better known as Wehriz. After collecting taxes from the local population, he sent them to the then-ruling Sasanian king Khosrow I Anushirvan (531-579). When the caravan equipped with Vechriz entered the Tamimite region, they began to think about attacking it, but at first abandoned this idea.
Meanwhile, the caravan reached the lands of the Banu Yarbu tribe, which belonged to the Banu Tamim tribal alliance. A certain Sasaa Ibn N ...
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