Qahtanite
Banu Qahtan بنو قحطان Alarab Alariba العرب العاربة | |
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Qahtanite, Children of |
The terms Qahtanite and Qahtani (
In some Judeo-Christian traditions such as Jubilees and some Jasherian tales the Qahtanite Arabs descend from Jokshan son of Abraham through Keturah and half brother of Ishmael son of Abraham through Hagar. [7]
Traditional Arab genealogy
According to Arab tradition, the Qahtanites are from South Arabia, unlike the Adnanites who are from the north of Arabia descended from Ishmael through Adnan.[7] Arab tradition maintains that a semi-legendary ancestral figure named Qahtan and his 24 sons are the progenitors of Yemen who controlled the Arabian Peninsula known as Qahtani.[1][2]
The genealogists disagree about the pedigree of Qahțān [himself]. Some trace him back to
Among the sons of Qahtan are noteworthy figures like A'zaal (believed by Arabs to have been the original name of
The Qahtani people are divided into the two sub-groups of
The Kahlan branch includes the following tribes:
Early linguistic connection
The first groups of
Pre-Islamic Qahtani migration out of Arabia
Early Semites who developed civilizations throughout the Ancient Near East gradually relinquished their geopolitical superiority to surrounding cultures and neighboring imperial powers, usually due to either internal turmoil or outside conflict. This climaxed with the arrival of the Babylonians, and subsequently the rivaling Medes and Persians, during the 7th and 6th centuries BCE, respectively. Though the Semites lost geopolitical influence, the Aramaic language emerged as the lingua franca of much of the Near East. However, Aramaic usage declined after the defeat of the Persians and the arrival of the Hellenic armies around 330 BCE.
The Ghassanids (ca. 250 CE) were the last major non-Islamic Semitic migration northward out of Yemen. They revived the Semitic presence in the then Roman-controlled Syria. They initially settled in the Hauran region, eventually spreading to Palestine, and Jordan, briefly securing governorship of Syria away from the Nabataeans.
After the rise of Islam
Between the 7th and the 14th centuries, the Qahtanites became involved in the
See also
- Qahtan (disambiguation)
- Kahlan
- Hadhramaut
- Hakam, Yemen
Notes
References
- ^ Britannica Online Encyclopedia. 2009.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-41524-466-4.
Qahtan are divided into the two sub-groups of Himyar and Kahlan.
- ^ "Epigraph details: Gr 24". DASI: Digital Archive for the Study of Pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
- ^ "Epigraph details: Ja 2360". DASI: Digital Archive for the Study of Pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
- ^ "Epigraph details: DAI Barʾān 2000-1". DASI: Digital Archive for the Study of Pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
- ^ "Epigraph details: Ja 635". DASI: Digital Archive for the Study of Pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
- ISBN 978-9-08964-045-1. "The 'arabized or arabizing Arabs', on the contrary, are believed to be the descendants of Ishmael through Adnan, but in this case the genealogy does not match the Biblical line exactly. The label 'arabized' is due to the belief that Ishmael spoke Hebrew until he got to Mecca, where he married a Yemeni woman and learnt Arabic. Both genealogical lines go back to Sem, son of Noah, but only Adnanites can claim Abraham as their ascendant, and the lineage of Mohammed, the Seal of Prophets (khatim al-anbiya'), can therefore be traced back to Abraham. Contemporary historiography unveiled the lack of inner coherence of this genealogical system and demonstrated that it finds insufficient matching evidence; the distinction between Qahtanites and Adnanites is even believed to be a product of the Umayyad Age, when the war of factions (al-niza al-hizbi) was raging in the young Islamic Empire."
- ^ الإيناس بعلم الأنساب - المغربي - ج١ - الصفحة 41. Archived 2020-11-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The History of al-Tabari - Vol. 39 - Page 130
- ISBN 978-0-8254-9363-8. Archivedfrom the original on 28 July 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
This view is largely based on the claim of Muslim Arab historians that their oldest ancestor is Qahtan, whom they identify as the biblical Joktan (Gen. 10:25–26). Montgomery finds it difficult to reconcile Joktan with Qahtan based on etymology.
- ^ Maqsood, Ruqaiyyah Waris. "Adam to the Banu Khuza'ah". The Prophet's Family Line. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
- ISBN 978-0-415-32639-1.
- ISBN 978-9-96098-032-4.
- Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 47: 18.
- E. J. Brill. p. 45.
Further reading
- Simpson, St John (2002). Queen of Sheba: Treasures from Ancient Yemen. London, UK: ISBN 978-0-71411-151-3.
- Wüstenfeld, Heinrich Ferdinand (1869). Die Wohnsitze und Wanderungen der arabischen Stämme [The Dwelling Places and Wanderings of the Arabian Tribes] (in German). Göttingen: Dieterichschen Buchhandlung.
- Crone, Patricia (1994). "Were the Qays and Yemen of the Umayyad Period Political Parties?" (PDF). Der Islam: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East. 71 (1): 1–57.