Judaism among Kinda and the Ridda of Kinda

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ID3961885
AuthorsMichael Lecker (0000-0002-3412-0874, corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume115
Issue4
Pages635
Publication date1995-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/604732
OpenAlexW2328175270
LanguageEN
Citations received12

Islamic sources indicate that on the eve of Islam, the Jews were the largest religious community in the Yemen. Yaqūbī says that all the inhabitants of the Yemen were Jewish, while Ibn Hazm says that all the Himyarites and many Kindites were Jews. The attention is focused on Kinda, who inhabited both the Yemen and Hadramawt. We hear about a mass conversion to Islam of Jewish Kindites, who lived in the Yemen. Concerning the famous tribal leader al-Ashath b. Qays of Kinda who lived in Hadramawt, coinciding reports indicate that before he embraced Islam, he had been Jewish. The sources point to an analogy between the massacre of Kinda, at the end of their rebellion shortly after the Prophet Muhammad's death, and the massacre of the Jewish Banū Qurayza in Medina several years earlier

Analogy · Ancient history · Archaeology · Ethnology · Islam · Judaism · Religious community · African history and culture analysis · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Philosophy · Religious studies

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