ʿAwlaqī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" ʿAwlaqī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Knysh, Alexander D.

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1063137
Doc. NO	:	ALei3534
Main Entry	:	Knysh, Alexander D.
Title & Author	:	ʿAwlaqī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Knysh, Alexander D.
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,177 words)
Abstract	:	ʿAwlaqī (pl. ʿAwāliq) is a South Arabian tribal confederation and its territory, located in the present-day Republic of Yemen, in an area that stretches approximately one hundred kilometres along the Indian Ocean coastline and extends inland to where it abuts the desert territory of Ramlat al-Sabʿatayn. In the late 1960s, under the Socialist government, the former ʿAwlaqī lands, which consisted of the Lower ʿAwlaqī Sultanate (with its “capital” in Aḥwar), the Upper ʿAwlaqī Sultanate (Niṣāb), and the Upper ʿAwlaqī Shaykhdom (al-Ṣaʿīd), were divided between Province III (Abyan)
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei3534.pdf