Al-Hira (Arabic: الحيرة, romanized: al-Ḥīra Middle Persian: Hērt ) was an ancient city in Mesopotamia located south of what is now Kufa in south-central...
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The mountain houses the grotto or cave of Hira (Arabic: غَار حِرَاء, romanized: Ghar-i-Hira, lit. 'Cave of Hira'), which holds tremendous significance for...
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vicinity of al-Hira, a predominantly Arab market town and the Sasanian administrative center for the middle Euphrates valley. Al-Hira's capture was the...
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Arabia, and belonged to the tribe Banu Thaqif. Al-Muthanna, commander of the Muslim Arabs in al-Hira, had asked Abu Bakr and later Caliph Umar for reinforcements...
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Al-Mundhir of Hira can refer to any of four Lakhmid rulers of al-Hira: al-Mundhir I ibn al-Nu'man (r. 418–462) al-Mundhir II ibn al-Mundhir (r. 490–497)...
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Tarafa, not wanting to break the royal seal, went ahead to Al-Hira for his execution, while Al-Mutalammis instead ignored the letter and threw it away,...
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or ʿEbād (Arabic: عِباد) were a Christian Arab group within the city of al-Ḥīra (Ḥirtā) during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, when the city...
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conquest of Persia as the Sasanians were defeated in the Battle of Hira by Khalid ibn al-Walid.[clarification needed] At that point, the city was abandoned...
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histories, al-Nu'man ibn al-Mundhir's reign "was the most memorable after that of his grandfather, al-Mundhir III". The Lakhmid capital of al-Hira continued...
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Abu Lu'lu'a (redirect from Abu-Lu'lu'ah al-Nahawandi)
Hurmuzān (a former officer in the Sasanian army) and a Christian man from al-Hira (Iraq). However, according to later legends that were first recorded in...
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