6 Replies to “A castle in the Yemeni district of al-Jawf”

  1. Is the tower the equivalent of a European castle’s donjon/keep? The right-hand wing beside it reminds me of a reconstruction of an ancient Greek or maybe a Minoan palace; will have to see if I can find the reconstruction. Given that Greek μέγαρον is a loanword from one of its Semitic language contemporaries, and that the megaron may have come from Anatolia and the Levant, I suppose, on reflection, that it isn’t surprising.

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  2. It is the country of Marib… Ubaida Abrad (the birthplace of Al-Dhayaghm and their alliance from the Ashrafs (Ashraf Al-Jawf jawf-marib ), the Bani Hajar tribe, especially Al-muKhadaba, the Yam tribe (Al-Murrah, and Al-Ajman). From here came Al-Daham, Al-Karush, Al-Karay, Kahailat Afis and kuheilaan Abn wabra and many of them.

    To this moment, it still represents the birthplace of Al-Dhayaghm (Al-Rashed bin Munif), the clan of /Umair bin Ahmed bin Rashid bin Munif, a rival to the cousin of Arar bin Shahwan bin Dhaygham, and he is also a brother to Umairah(she has a story of the stallion Mashhour with her husband Arar), the wife of Arar, and a brother to Aqeel bin Ahmed bin Rashed, about whom it was said in the book Ali Shawakh Al-Shuaibi : he is one of the ancestors of Al-Jash’am or Al-Qash’am tribe, which migrated to Iraq in the year 795 hairi (as part of Al-Dhayaghim’s journey to the north) and one of the cousins ​​of Abda Shammar / and the tribe that exists today in Ma’rib, the Al-Ma’ili Halaf (Al-Ma’ada) family. Faris bin Shahwan says in his poetry: We are from Ubaida, no Ubaida other than us , except Ubaida Khabb and brad, in referring to Ma’rib (the country of Ubaida). Khub = a valley in Al-Jawf, Abrad = a valley in Ma’rib, and he has poetry in which he praises the al dahma of the Al Rashed family, As if the tails of al daham (daham al Rashed) arelike rain falling from the thick hair of her tail.

    Someone says, describing its tribes : (And the tribes of al maa’da, and Bani Hajar, and Yazid. Sharif and the family of Abdul Qadir lived in Al-Jawf and Hadramaut, and they still have a remainder there, next to Ubaida Ruh (the Rashed bin Munif family).

    Thank you, my brother Edward, for this historical site that reminds us of the story of the Dhayaghim and their famous and ancient horses.

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      1. ((Bart) is different name, and (brad) is different name . But the two of them are located near each other’s borders from the country of Ubaida and its neighboring tribes, such as the Dhu Ghailan tribe from the Bakil and Al Dahm tribes, one of the tribes of Hamdan.. (Bart) or Jabal (Bart), with which the name of the governorate was associated / is today considered a district of the Al-Jawf Governorate Directorate. As for (Abrad), the valley in which the Ubaida tribe lives is considered to differentiate between them and their cousins ​​on the mother’s side, Ubaida al-Sarat/Tathleeth.

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