| Ancient North Arabian | ||
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| Spoken in | Arabia | |
| Language extinction | marginalized by Classical Arabic from the 7th century | |
| Language family | Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Central Arabic Ancient North Arabian |
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| Writing system | South Arabian alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | – | |
| ISO 639-3 | xna | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Lihyan (Arabic:لحيان ) was an ancient Arab kingdom. It was located northwestern Arabia, and it is known for its Old North Arabian inscriptions dating from the 1700 BC to 400 BC.
Dedanite is used for the older phase of the history of this kingdom, since their capital's name was Dedan - now called Al-'Ula and located in northwestern Arabia, some 110 km southwest of Teima.
Little is known about Lihyan kingdom, the Arab genealogy consider the Banu Lihyan descended from the Adnanite Arabs from the Hothail tribes. The descendants of Lihyan ibn Hothail founded the Arab kingdom of Lihyan, and presently live in the desert between Mecca and Jeddah.
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History
The ancient Lihyanites were the sons of Lihyan ibn Hothail [1] , And thay were the rulers of North_westeren Hijjaz before Quraish, And thay own the well of Zamzam [2] along with Quraish [3] and Khoza'ah .
Cities
- Higra
- Al-`Ula
- AL-Khuraibah
- Teima
- Oman
Kings of Lihyan
- Kabeer Al ibn mata' Al
- Jashim ibn shahr
- Hinas ibn shahr
- Takhmy ibn lthan
- Shamit Jashim ibn lthan
- Jlt qoos
- Mn'y lthan ibn Hinas
- Hinas ibn talny
- Talny ibn hinas
- 'Abdan hinas
- Slih
- Fthij
- Mas'ud
- Shahr ibn hinas
Literature
- Lozachmeur, H (ed.) 1995. Présence arabe dans le croissant fertile avant l'Hégire. (Actes de la table ronde internationale Paris, 13 Novembre 1993). Paris: Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations. pp. 148. ISBN 286538 2540. [1]
- Werner Caskel, Lihyan und Lihyanisch (1954)
- F.V. Winnett "A Study of the Lihyanite and Thamudic Inscriptions", University of Toronto Press, Oriental Series No. 3. [2]
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