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5 unusual facts about Tarim, Yemen


Arabian Waxbill

It can also be found along the south coast of Yemen east to Wadi al-Jahr and, in the extensively irrigated intensive agricultural areas of Wadi Hadramawt between Shibam and Tarim, usually with a dense cover of trees and bushes.

Azmatkhan

According to Al-Habib Salim bin Abdullah al-Shatiri Al-Husaini, Grand sheikh of Tarim, Yemen, Azmatkhan family (particularly Wali Sanga) were ahl al-bayt from the first wave of Ba 'Alawi sada migration to Indonesia for preaching Islam.

Ba 'Alawiyya

For about 800 years, the city of Tarim in Hadhramaut has been the centre of learning in Islamic jurisprudence or fiqh, notably of the Shafi Sunni school.

Habib Munzir Al-Musawa

While he was at ma'had Al-Khayrat, he got acquainted with Habib Umar bin Hafiz, the director and founder of Dar al-Mustafa boarding school in Tarim, Hadramaut in Yemen who visited the school as part of his outreach.

Habib Umar bin Hafiz

Umar bin Hafiz was born in Tarim, Hadhramaut, Yemen, and raised in a household that possessed a tradition and lineage of Islamic scholarship and righteousness by his father.


Abdulelah Haider Shaye

Journalist Jeremy Scahill reports that, according to his sources in Yemen, Saleh rescinded his pardon primarily due to the call from President Obama.

AbdulWahab al-Awdi

He has published two poetic works: «Maqamat I» (Ministry of Culture, Yemen, 2004), and «Maqamat II» (Ministry of Youth, Yemen, 2005) a State Incentive award-winning work.

Abdur-Rahman al-Mu'allimee al-Yamani

Al-Mu`allimee's father Yahya ibn `Ali was raised in the village of al-Tufan in the Automah district of Dhamar, Yemen.

Abu Hatim Tayyib Ziyauddin

Throughout 2000, he visited Karbala, Shaam, Najaf, Kufa, Bait ul-Muqaddas, Cairo, and Yemen in a comprehensive tour, making him the first Mansoor ul-Yamane and Zaair il-Mashhadain il-'Azeemain to do so.

Abu Musa Ashaari

Abu Musa came originally from Hadhramaut, region of Yemen, where his tribe, the Ashar, lived in the pre-Islamic period.

Action of 7 September 2009

On 7 September Brandenburg launched a Sea Lynx helicopter to perform a reconnaissance mission on a suspected skiff just south of Al Mukalla, Yemen.

Al-Mahdi Ali

Ali bin Muhammad al-Hosni was born in the village al-Ahani in the Sa'dah area in northern Yemen.

Al-Mansur al-Qasim al-Iyyani

Al-Qasim invaded Yemen in 997 or 998 and appropriated Sa'dah, the traditional capital of the Zaydiyyah domain.

Arabia Felix

Arabia Felix (lit. Happy Arabia; also Greek: Eudaimon Arabia) was the Latin name previously used by geographers to describe the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen, a country with an extensive history.

Arabian Golden-winged Grosbeak

In Yemen it has been recorded in spurge (Euphorbia) scrub and woodland of acacias (Acacia) and junipers (Juniperus), while in the wooded Mahrah it is primarily found in Anogeissus/Commiphora woodland.

Aswad Ansi

After his invasion of Yemen, he changed his title from "Prophet of God" to "Rahman" (The Most Merciful).

Battle of Dofas

The Battle of Dofas was a battle during the 2011 Yemeni uprising between forces loyal to Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh and Islamist militant forces, possibly including elements of al-Qaeda, during which the militants destroyed an Army artillery battalion of the 39th Armored Brigade in the town of Dofas, which was being used as a main base for artillery support against the militant-held towns of Zinjibar and Jaʿār.

Battle of Zinjibar

The Battle of Zinjibar was a battle during the 2011 Yemeni uprising between forces loyal to Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh and Islamist militant forces, possibly including elements of al-Qaeda, for control of the town of Zinjibar and its surroundings as part of the wider insurgency in the self-declared Islamic Emirate of Abyan.

Bismack Biyombo

Biyombo, who was born in Lubumbashi, was discovered by the former Jordanian and Angolan and current Portuguese national team head coach, Mário Palma, at the age of 16 at a youth tournament in Yemen.

Coffee production

All coffee, when it was introduced in Europe, came from the port of Mocha in what is now Yemen.

Culture of Yemen

Milk tea (after qat), black tea (with cardamom, clove, or mint), qishr (coffee husks), qahwa (coffee), karkadin (an infusion of dried hibiscus flowers), Naqe'e Al Zabib (cold raisin drink), and diba'a (squash nectar) are popular drinks from all over Yemen.

Death of Jamal al-Sharaabi

Death of Jamal al-Sharaabi, also known as Jamal Ahmad Al-Sharaabi, (Arabic: جمال احمد الشرعبي, c. 1976 - 18 March 2011) was a Yemeni photojournalist with the independent weekly, Al-Masdar, in Sana'a, Yemen.

Demographics of Yemen

Religion in Yemen consists primarily of two principal Islamic religious groups: 53% of the Muslim population is Sunni and over 45% is Shia, according to the UNHCR.

Dor Daim

Over time more and more Kabbalistic practices became popular among the Yemenite Jews to the point that the Baladi community became localized as a significant population only around the area of Yemen's capital city, Sana'a.

Eduard Glaser

He collected thousands of inscriptions in Yemen that are today held by Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Elemo Qiltu

Not much is know of Elemo's early life but by 1956 he had had an Islamic education and was living in Dire Dawa working for a wealthy Arab merchant who eventually took him to Aden, Yemen in 1956.

Elio Ciol

The photographs are of Italy (especially Assisi), Yosemite (California), Yemen (notably Sanʻāʼ), and Greece.

Eryx jayakari

Its range includes Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, and southern Iran, where a small number of specimens have been found in Khuzestan Province, Bushahr Province and Kerman Province.

Evgeny P. Bazhanov

He was Academic advisor of 50 PhD dissertations defended by President of South Korea Kim Dae-jung, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Foreign Minister of Kyrgyzstan Alikbek Jekshenkulov, Ambassadors to Russia of Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Palestine and many prominent Russian politicians, educators and diplomats.

Fathi Jabir

Fathi Jabir (Arabic: فتحي جابر ) (born 29 December 1980) is a Yemeni football striker and Club Al-Tilal، Yemen's top scorer the season: 1998/99

First Battle of Lawdar

The First Battle of Lawdar refers to the Yemeni army offensive, launched between 19 and 25 August 2010 on the city of Lawdar, that at the time was controlled by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

France–Yemen relations

The Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Bernard Kouchner, went to Yemen on 21 February 2009 and was received by Foreign Affairs Minister Al-Qirbi and by President Saleh.

GDRT

GDRT is first mentioned in South Arabian inscriptions as an ally of `Alhan Nahfan, king of Saba, in an inscription at Maḥram Bilqīs, at Ma'rib in Yemen, the temple of the moon god Almaqah /Ilmuqah.

Hashim ibn 'Abd Manaf

Thus, the Quraish engaged in trade in Yemen, Syria and Ankara which allowed them to flourish economically.

Israel–Yemen relations

When the Israeli singer, Ofra Haza planned to visit Yemen, her country of origin, the Yemeni government gave its approval.

Maria Al-Masani

Maria Al-Masani founded Yemen Rights Monitor during the Arab Spring in 2011, providing a means of updating news via social media when traditional news media had been blocked – she was later cited by Andy Carvin as one of his most reliable sources about opposition activities in Yemen.

Minaeans

The Minaeans were the inhabitants of the kingdom of Ma'in (Old South Arabian mʿn, vocalized Maʿīn; modern Arabic معين Maʿīn) in modern day Yemen, dating back to the 6th century BCE.

Mufaddal Saifuddin

During his trip to Yemen, he laid the foundations for the construction of Syedna Hatim's Roza.

Muqam

The most fully developed at this point is the Western Tarim region's 12 muqams, which are now a large canon of music and songs recorded from the traditional performers Turdi Akhun and Omar Akhun among others in the 1950s and edited into a more systematic system.

Niya

Minfeng Town, historically called Niya, county seat of Minfeng County in the Tarim Basin, China

Ridda wars

He had to deal with widespread apostasy on the eastern and southern coasts of Arabia: in Bahrain, in Oman, in Mahra, in Hadhramaut and in Yemen.

The last of the great revolts of the apostasy was that of the powerful tribe of Kinda, which inhabited the region of Najran, Hadhramaut, and eastern Yemen.

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is a 2011 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Lasse Hallström and starring Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas and Amr Waked.

Sharab

Jewish Sharab, an ancient Jewish quarter in Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen

Valentin Kovalenko

He refereed at the 2011 AFC Asian Cup, 2012 AFC Cup Final and 2014 World Cup qualifiers, beginning with the preliminary-round match between Iraq and Yemen.

Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din

Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din was born on Friday 18 June 1869 in Sanaa into the Hamidaddin branch of the al-Qasimi dynasty who ruled most of Yemen proper and South Saudi Arabia today for over 900 years.

Yemeni presidential election, 1999

#Najeeb Qahtan Al-Sha'abi - (MP for the General People's Congress, running as an Independent)

Yemeni presidential election, 2006

Incumbent president Ali Abdullah Saleh of the General People's Congress party defeated the Yemen opposition coalition candidate Faisal Bin Shamlan.

Yemeni unification

Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas, the former Southern Prime Minister continued to serve as the Yemen's Prime Minister, but his government was ineffective due to political infighting.

Ali Nasir Muhammad, the exiled South Yemen leader, assisted military operations against the secessionists.


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