Himyar (Yemen), Judaism
KingdomJudaism
Himyar (Yemen)
Zafar
The last great kingdom of ancient Yemen, whose kings turned to Judaism.
How does it touch Islam?
The Quran's people of Tubba (44:37) and the Companions of the Ditch (85:4) belong to Himyar's story.
Who ruled it?
What happened in its time?
Who else is linked?
The king of the trenchThe Companions of the GardenTubbaPeople of TubbaCompanions of the DitchCompanions of the ElephantNajranSaba and Ma'ribSana'aAdenArabiaZafar
Everyone and everything in the timeline
People named in the Quran and the hadith, the Prophet's ﷺ family and Companions, scholars, rulers, the nations of the Quran, the world's empires and the places where it all happened. Where scholars differ, each entry says so.
Empires
- Sumer and Akkad
- Ancient Egypt
- Indus Valley
- Babylonia
- Shang and Zhou China
- Assyria
- Saba (Sheba)
- Kingdom of Dawud and Sulayman
- Greek city-states
- Persian Empire
- Alexander and successors
- Han China
- Roman Empire
- Himyar (Yemen)
- Sasanian Persia
- Byzantine Empire
- Aksum (Abyssinia)
- Empire of Ghana
- Tang China
- Franks and Holy Roman Empire
- State of Madinah
- Rashidun Caliphate
- Umayyad Caliphate
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Umayyads of Cordoba
- Fatimid Caliphate
- Ghaznavids
- Seljuk Empire
- Almoravids and Almohads
- Ayyubids
- Delhi Sultanate
- Mongol Empire
- Mamluk Sultanate
- Mali Empire
- Muslim Mongol khanates
- Seljuks of Rum and beyliks
- Ottoman Empire
- Ming and Qing China
- Safavid Persia
- Mughal Empire
- European colonial empires
- Pahlavi Iran
- Sokoto Caliphate
- Saudi Arabia
- Republic of Turkey
- Independent Muslim-majority states
- Cold War and after
- Hittite Empire
- Olmec civilisation
- Phoenicia
- Kingdom of Kush
- Carthage
- Minaeans, Qataban and Hadramawt
- Maurya Empire
- Nabataean Kingdom
- Parthian Empire
- Judea
- Maya civilisation
- Gupta Empire
- Lakhmid Kingdom
- Christian Nubia
- Ghassanids
- Japan
- Christian Spain
- Aghlabids
- Idrisids
- Khmer Empire
- Samanids
- Kievan Rus'
- England and Britain
- Buyids
- Song China
- France
- Taifa kingdoms
- Khwarazmian Empire
- Crusader states
- Great Zimbabwe
- Zengids
- Portugal
- Ghurids
- Hafsids
- Nasrid Granada
- Golden Horde
- Marinids
- Pasai and Aceh
- Russia
- Ifat and Adal
- Deccan sultanates
- Bengal Sultanate
- Timurids
- Malacca Sultanate
- Aztec Empire
- Inca Empire
- Songhai Empire
- Kanem-Bornu
- Alawi Morocco
- Qajar Iran