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Early Christianity in Arabia; A Historical Essay
Early Christianity in Arabia A Historical Essay Author:Thomas Wright General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1855 Original Publisher: Quaritch Subjects: Church history Arabian Peninsula Christianity History / General History / Middle East / General Literary Collections / General Religion / Christianity / History Religion / Christian Church / History Travel / Midd... more »le East / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SECTION II. Of the original inhabitants of Yaman there were, we are told, several tribes, of whom some, such as those of Tasm and Hodais, became extinct by war and other causes.3 The tribes of Ad and Thamoud, which were settled, the former in Hadramaut and the latter in the province of Petra, were said to have been visited with the divine wrath for their impiety." Those who had first occupied the boundaries of Syria, the Tahites, Chasdites, ? abrites, Giahites, and Salehites, were afterwards extirpated by other settlers from the south, who took possession of the districts of Ghassan and Hirah.6 The Arabians are divided by the native historians into two distinct races : the posterity of Kâhtan, or Joktan, the son of Heber, who were termed Al Arab al Ariba, the pure Arabs, and the race of Adnân, the lineal descendants of Ishmael, who were called mixed Arabs, Al Arab al Mostareba. From the latter, who were intermixed with the descendants of Jorham, one of the sons of Kâhtan, and occupied the district of Hedjaz, were descended the tribe of Koreish. Kâhtan was the first that wore a diadem in the land of Yaman.1 Kâhtan was succeeded by his son Yârab, who is celebrated as the lirst who spoke the language and introduced the ceremonials of Arabia.2 Yeshab, the son of Yârab, was succeeded by Abd-Shems, or Saba. the founder of the city of M...« less