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Ma'dikarib Ya'fur (Arabic: معد كرب يعفر, romanized: Ma'dikarib Ya'fur), known more commonly as Lakhni'ah Yanuf Dhu Shanatir, was a Himyarite king who ruled Yemen.[2][3] He was not from the royal family of Himyarite rulers[4] but he took power during a period of unrest which started with the death of Sharhabil Yafar. During his rule, he became known as Dhu Shanatir (The Man with Earrings).[5]
| Ma'dikarib Ya'fur | |||||
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| King of Saba', Dhu Raydan, Hadramawt, Yamnat and their Arabs, on Tawdum and Tihamat | |||||
| Reign | 515–517[1] | ||||
| Predecessor | Marthad'ilan Yanuf
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| Successor | Dhu Nuwas | ||||
| Died | c. 517 | ||||
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| Religion | Christianity | ||||
According to Ibn Ishaq, he would lure young men from the royal family into his home so as to sodomize them and thereby dishonor or afterwards assassinate them, ensuring that they could not reign after him.[6][3] Genealogical scholars and historians including Ibn Hisham, Ibn al-Kalbi and Ibn Ishaq affirmed that Dhu Shanatir was assassinated some time around 517 AD by Dhu Nuwas, whom he himself had invited to the palace on the pretext of dishonoring him.
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Around the year 517 AD, Dhu Shanatir invited the young Zur'ah Yusuf ibn Sharhabil into his palace.[3][6] Zur'ah, who already knew of his exploits, hid a dagger in his shoe and went ahead to visit him.[3] As Lakhni'ah Yanuf was about to attack him, Zur'ah pulled out the dagger and stabbed him before beheading him. He then displayed Lakhni'ah Yanuf's severed head outside the window of the palace. Rejoicing at the death of Lakhni'ah Yanuf, the people of Himyar appointed Zur'ah as their leader, and he would eventually be known as Dhu Nuwas.[7][6][3]
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- ^ "DASI: Digital Archive for the Study of pre-islamic arabian Inscriptions: Epigraph details". dasi.cnr.it. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ a b c d e Bosworth, C. E. (4 November 1999). The History of al-Tabari, Vol. 5: The Sasanids, the Byzantines, the Lakhmids, and Yemen. SUNY Press. pp. 188–190. ISBN 9780791497227.
- ^ Ibrahim, Mahmood (23 May 2014). Merchant Capital and Islam. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292767720.
- ^ Abbas Faroughy (1947). Introducing Yemen. Orientalia. p. 43.
- ^ a b c Guillaume, Alfred (1955). The Life of Muhammad, translation of Ibn Ishaq's Sira Rasul Allah. Oxford University Press. pp. 13–14. ISBN 0196360331.
- ^ Scham, Sandra (19 January 2018). Extremism, Ancient and Modern: Insurgency, Terror and Empire in the Middle East. Routledge. ISBN 9781351846547.