al-Hīra
| Al-Hīra | |||
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| Coordinates | 31 ° 53 ' N , 44 ° 27' E | ||
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 Iraq
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| Governorate | Najaf | ||
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Al-Hīra ( Arabic الحيرة, DMG al-Ḥīra ) was the capital of the Lachmids . The city was on the lower Euphrates south of today's cities of Najaf and Kufa in Iraq . It was conquered in 602 by the Sassanids under Chosrau II and in 633 by the Arabs under Chālid ibn al-Walīd , a military leader of Mohammed .
architecture
The fort of Karnaq is said to have stood in Al-Hīra.
Personalities
- Tarafa ( Arabic طرفة بن العبد; 6th century), poet
- Adi bin Zaid ( Arabic عدي بن زيد العبادي; approx. 550–600), poet
- an-Nabigha ad-Dubyani ( Arabic النابغة الذبياني; † around 604), poet
- Hunain ibn Ishāq ( Arabic أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي; * 808; † 873 in Baghdad), Christian-Arabic scholar, translator and doctor . His Latinized name is Johannitius.
literature
- Andreas Götze: "Al Hira", in: A religion does not fall from heaven. The first centuries of Islam. 4th edition WGB Verlag, Darmstadt, 2012, ISBN 978-3-534-26378-3 , chap. 3, pages 109-111.
- Isabel Toral-Niehoff : Al- Ḥīra. An Arab cultural metropolis in the context of late antiquity. Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2014. ISBN 978-90-04-22926-6
Web links
Commons : Al-Hirah - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Arabist Isabel Toral-Niehoff describes Adi bin Zaid as a Christian urban Arab “who wrote Bedouin poetry, but also spoke Persian and Aramaic and went in and out of the Persian court”. In: "Al-Hira, the Berlin of Mesopotamia" ( Memento from June 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), Alsharq , June 3, 2018.