The Calcutta Review July - December 1853

- The third volume resuMcs the history of Mithomet and brings -down the progress of Islam to the Caliphate of Omar and the submission of all the Arab tribes. [...] The Bani Tay a Call'finite family isolated Since the departure of their neighbours the Azdites and like them we conclude suffering from the of 'eats of the great 0°Mmeraial ehange migrated likewise and finally took up their position in the mountains of Ajft and Salina to the north of Najd and the Hej ttz. [...] This disorganization may perhaps have arisen from unsuccessful wars with the Abyssinian kingdom for about the middle of the 4th century the sovereign of Axinn (between the Red Sii and the Nile) joined to his other titles that of hing of theelfinyarites.f To such t?oubRis we may probably attribute the brevity and in some respAts uncertainty of the history of Yemen for a long series of wars. [...] The Abyssinian rule was distasteful to the natives and a Iliniyarito of the royal house named &if whether impelled by the tyratfny of the invaders or by the hope of succeeding to the throne of his lIncestore taught for foreign aid first fruitlessly at the Court of Constantinople and then at that of the Peiseian From the latter Mildicarib son of the original suppliant at last obtained an [...] This happened about 575 A. D.*. In the person of MADICARIB who was installed as the ruler of Yemen and the vassal of the Persian king the Hiulyar dynasty appeared again to rappear The Arab tribes sent deputations to congratulate him on the auspicious occasion and among them is reported Abd al Alottalib the grand-father of Mahomet; but the story is accompanied by so many gross anticipation