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" Ayyām al-ʿArab - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Jones, Alan
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English
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1060813
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ALei1210
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Jones, Alan
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Ayyām al-ʿArab - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Jones, Alan
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(1,658 words)
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Ayyām al-ʿArab , “days of the Arabs,” is the name applied in Arabic literature to the combat, skirmishes, and even wars that Arab tribes fought amongst themselves in pre-Islamic and early Islamic times. Each particular day (yawm) had its own name (e.g., Yawm ʿAyn Ubāgh , “the Day of the Spring of Ubāgh,” Yawm Buʿāth , “the Day of Buʿāth”), usually taken from the name of the location or from a natural feature of the area where the fighting took place. Occasionally the names of people were given to a
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Islam.
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ALei1210.pdf
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