Article According to this view, otherwise similar harms or benefits for people and animals count equally from the moral point of view. “Pain is pain,” as the point is sometimes put (Singer, Animal Liberation, p. 20; DeGrazia, Taking Animals Seriously, p. 234). In this sense, animals and people can be said to have the same…

Article (Around 525, or 531 (Robin 2012b: 283-4), Ǝllä Aṣbǝḥa Kaleb (Greek Hellestheaios), king of Aksūm, defeated the self-proclaimed (in 521 or 522) Jewish king of Ḥimyar Yūsuf As’ar Yaṯ’ar (Greek Dounaas, Arabic ḏū Nuwās), who following his rise to power had the Aksumite garrison in Ẓafār killed, Ẓafār’s church destroyed, the coastal regions of…

The historicity of an expedition of Abraha against Mecca, and its resounding failure, does, however, appear plausible, because such an event provides an acceptable explanation for the primacy of Quraysh in the last decades of the sixth century, while this tribe, settled in an inhospitable region, was notoriously small in numbers and lived in poverty.…

Article A study where the Aksumite kingdom used elephants for war and had access to them during the 6th century when the expedition is said to have taken place

‹Yṯrb› is basically Yaṯrib And so, we have an inscription in Najrān mentioning that Abraha went to Yaṯrib in his expedition

A. Muhammad Al-Maghdawi,

Fig. 1 – Arabia on the eve of Islam, with the illustration of two ÿimyarite campaigns known from inscriptions, those of kings Maÿdÿkarib Yaÿfur (521, continuous line) and Abraha (552, broken line). Another very important document (Murayghÿn 1 = Ry 506) commemorates a “fourth” expedition of Abraha into desert Arabia. The king had it engraved…

Article Some sixty years ago, Werner Caskel produced a theory which he called “the Bedouinization of Arabia”. For a man who had devoted so much of his career to the study of pre-Islamic and early Islamic Arabia, it was based on a shock ingly superficial, and often incorrect, view of a very limited amount of…

Article The details regarding the idols are reliable:

Article Is there any evidence external to the Muslim tradition that we can use? The only classical reference we have, in Josephus’s Jewish Antiquities (15:9:3), mentions that Herod dispatched 500 chosen men from his personal bodyguard to go with Aelius Gallus on his march through western Arabia to conquer the Yemen in 26–24 BCE, but…