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	Dhu Nuwas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yusuf Dhu Nuwas (also called Yusuf Asar Dhu Nuwas, Masruq, and Dunas Zhidovin) was the last king of the Himyarite kingdom of Yemen.
		Arab tradition states that Dhu Nuwas committed suicide by riding his horse into the sea.
		Dhu Nuwas, Zur'ah Yusuf ibn Tuban As'ad abi Karib - 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia article.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dhu_Nuwas (219 words)

	Arabia
		Dhu Nuwas marched against the latter city and, finding it impregnable, treacherously promised the inhabitants full amnesty in the case of their surrender.
		Dhu Nuwas next sought their bishop, Paul, and when informed that he had been some time dead, he ordered his bones to be disinterred and burnt and their ashes scattered to the wind.
		Dhu Nuwas's messengers arrived 20 January, 524, at Hufhuf (El-Hassa), near the Persian Gulf, where Al-Mundhir was then entertaining an embassy sent to him by the Emperor Justin and composed of Sergius, Bishop of Rosapha, the priest Abramos, and many other ecclesiastics and laymen, among whom was the Monophysite Simeon, Bishop of Beth-Arsam, in Persia.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/a/arabia.html (12125 words)

	Jewish Warriors
		Dhu Nuwas was himself a religious Jew, of the line of the convert kings, and the son of an ethnically Jewish woman.
		Dhu Nuwas besieged the city to punish the pro-Ethiopian agitators.
		The deciding battle where Dhu Nuwas was defeated was fought at Zabid in 525.
	www.geocities.com /jewishwarriors/yemen.html (797 words)

	Dhu Nuwas - IBWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		According to the Arabian historians the name "Dhu Nuwas" was given him on account of his curly hair (Ibn Khaldun, "Prolegomena," p.
		This destroyed the trade of Yemen with Europe and involved Dhu Nuwas in a war with the heathen king Aidug, whose commercial interests were injured thereby.
		Dhu Nuwas was defeated (521), but succeeded in reestablishing his kingdom.
	ib.frath.net /w/Dhu_Nuwas (1029 words)

	KALÉB, Ethiopia, Orthodox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The resulting maltreatment of Jews in Byzantine territories was answered by the Judaized ruler of Himyar, Dhu Nuwas, with a persecution of Christian and Roman merchants in his realm, and in consequence Kaléb attacked Himyar, perhaps in 523.
		After a successful defense, Dhu Nuwas initiated a retaliatory massacre of the major Christian communities, particularly that in Najran.
		Dhu Nuwas was either captured and killed, or committed suicide.
	wesley.nnu.edu /DACB/DACBCDFILES/stories/ethiopia/kaleb_.html (712 words)

	[No title]
		Sheikh Yusuf Dhu Nuwas (517-525 CE) was the last Jewish king of Yemen and was himself a convert.
		When Dhu Nuwas began his reign, the kingdom was in a general state of deterioration, and the Ethiopians, meanwhile, had not lost a minute.
		Among Dhu Nuwas' first acts as king was to unite all the princely factions in his territory into an effective army and to go into action.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /010198/yemen1.html (823 words)

	Origin of Islam in its Christian Environment
		Finding it bravely defended, he had recourse to deception, and gained entrance on the strength of an oath that he would spare the lives of the citizens and allow them the exercise of their religion.
		To punish the author of this enormity lay in line with the policy of the Empire, and the Abyssinians also were not inclined to allow their influence in South Arabia to be thus overthrown.
		Dhu Nuwas was completely overthrown and put to death or, according to another less reliable account, threw himself into the sea and perished.
	www.muhammadanism.org /bell/origin/p038.htm (626 words)

	The Ecole Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 523 a fiercely anti-Ethiopian and anti-Byzantine Arab convert to Judaism, Yusuf Asar Dhu Nuwas, took power in the kingdom of Himyar.
		Whether Dhu Nuwas planned to establish an explicitly Jewish state is debatable -- many of his followers were pagan or Nestorian -- but most of his enemies were Christian, and his war to establish Himyar's full independence from Axum took on a distinctly religious character.
		Churches were burned and Arab Christian civilians were massacred, most famously at Nagran; Dhu Nuwas is said to have justified such atrocities by referring to the horrendous persecution of Jews in the Roman Empire.
	www2.evansville.edu /ecoleweb/glossary/caleb.html (436 words)

	November 25: Massacre of Arabian Christians at Himyar
		It happened that a Himyarite Jew, Yusuf As'ar (better known by nicknames referring to his braids or ponytail: Dhu Nuwas, Dzu Nuwas, Dounaas, or Masruq), seized the throne from his king and revolted against Abyssinia, seeking to throw the Ethiopians out of the country.
		Dhu Nuwas found he could not capture it.
		An Ethiopian-Jewish writing known as the Kebra Nagast regarded the downfall of Dhu Nuwas to be the final catastrophe for the Kingdom of Judah.
	chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2001/11/daily-11-25-2001.shtml (807 words)

	Church Bulletin - Holy Trinity, Tulsa, OK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		When Dhu Nuwas, ruler of the Himyarite tribe in south Arabia, and a Judaizer, took power, he sought to blot out Christianity, especially at Najran, a Christian city.
		Against the counsels of Arethas, chief man of Najran, the city surrendered to Dhu Nuwas, who immediately broke the word he had given and sought to compel the city to renounce Christ.
		So great was their faith that not one woman was found to deny Christ in all Najran, although some of them suffered torments more bitter than most of the men.
	www.bulletin.goarch.org /ChurchBulletins/24/102404/feasts.html (301 words)

	Islam Online - Hajj - Fiqh of Hajj (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Himiyarite king Dhu Nuwas unexpectedly converted to Judaism and consequently he started persecuting the Christians and regarding them as agents for the Roman Empire.
		Because the Roman Empire was far away from the Yemen, he asked his ally the Negus of Abyssinia to invade the Yemen and to punish Dhu Nuwas.
		He killed Dhu Nuwas and this was the starting point of the Abyssinian occupation of Yemen.
	www.islamonline.net /English/hajj/2002/01/Records/article2.shtml (1532 words)

	Boy And The King - Trust Islam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Then, after Ibn Ishaq explained that the people of Najran began following the religion of the boy after his murder, which was the religion of Christianity, he said, "Then (the king) Dhu Nuwas came to them with his army and called them to Judaism.
		So Dhu Nuwas killed twenty thousand people in one morning in the Ditch.
		Dhu Nuwas tried to flee but eventually fell into the sea and drowned.
	www.trustislam.com /studiobb/index.php?showtopic=5742 (1120 words)

	Is The Qur'an Really The Work Of Multiple Hands?
		Taking the two rabbis with him, he converted his army and subsequently his people; but it was not till the time of Dhu Nuwas (sixth century) that Judaism was more widely spread in Yemen.
		The above passage mentions Dhu Nuwas, who is a significant figure in the history of Judaism in Arabia.
		The fanaticism of Dhu Nuwas was such that he burned alive whoever refused to become a Jew.
	www.geocities.com /freethoughtmecca/menj.html (8003 words)

	Himyar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Economy was based on the export of frankincense and myrrh.
		Dhu Nuwas was the last Tubba Himyarite king and after accepting Judaism inflicted a genocide upon the Christians by burning.
		The genocide lead to foreign invation and the subsiding of the Himyarites for 8 years.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/Himyar.htm (184 words)

	Feel (The Elephant)
		So, in 570 or 571 A., he took 60, 000 troops and 13 elephants (according to another tradition, 9 elephants) and set off for Makkah.
		On the way, first a Yamanite chief, Dhu Nafr by name, mustering an army of the Arabs, resisted him but was defeated and taken prisoner.
		Then in the country of Khath'am he was opposed by Nufail bin Habib al-Khath'am, with his tribe, but he too was defeated and taken prisoner, and in order to save his life he accepted to serve him as guide in the Arab country.
	www.kuftaro.org /English/Islam/suras-information/00105-feel.htm (2932 words)

	THE NATIVE PAGAN ARABS
		The Monophysite sect of Christianity had found refuge in Najran, a province of South Arabia, after it was expelled from Byzantium by Justinian (Upravda) I (527-565 EV).
		Around the same time, Dhu Nuwas, king of Yemen which included Najran, had embraced Judaism.
		An Abyssinian army under Aryat descended on Yemen, defeated and killed Dhu Nuwas, and occupied the land.
	ethnikoi.org /paganarabs.html (2521 words)

	Yemen - IBWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In the 5th Century CE the Kingdom of Himyar grew to be a powerful nation with boundaries similar to that of modern-day Yemen and extended its influence into the Hijaaz.
		Dhu Nuwas, King of Himyar, changed the state religion to Judaism in the beginning of the 6th Century and politely but firmly expelled the Christians.
		Binding with Judea against Islamic attack, Himyar remained independent and Jewish.
	ib.frath.net /w/Yemen (152 words)

	Chronological Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		525 Death of the Jewish king Dhu Nuwas of Yemen; South Arabia becomes an Abyssinian colony.
		610 Arab tribes defeated an Arab-Persian army at Dhu Qar in Iraq.
		814 [815?] Death of Abu Nuwas, representative of new themes and forms in Arabic poetry.
	www.library.cornell.edu /colldev/mideast/islchron.htm (6732 words)

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