Minaeans

For the language, see Minaean language.

The Minaeans from Arabic (المعينيون Maʻīneyyūn [mɑʕɪːnejˈːʊːn]) or (معين Maʻīn [mɑˈʕɪːn]; also spelled Maʻin) were an ancient Arab group in Yemen during the 1st millennium BC. Their Minaean Kingdom (مملكة معين Mamlakat Maʿīn [mɑmlɑˈkɑt mɑˈʕɪːn]) was one of important kingdoms in ancient Yemen and Southwestern Arabia. Their capital was Qarnawu/Qarnaw (NW Yemen) along the strip of desert called Sayhad by medieval Arab geographers (and that is called now Ramlat al-Sab`atayn).

The Minaean people were one of four ancient Yemenite groups (Greek ethnos) mentioned by Eratosthenes. The others were the Sabaeans, Hadramites and Qatabanians. Each of these had regional kingdoms in ancient Yemen, with the Minaeans in the north-east (in Wadi al-Jawf), the Sabeans to the south-east of them, the Qatabanians to the south-east of the Sabaeans, and the Hadramites east of them.

The Minaeans, like some other Arabian and Yemenite kingdoms of the same period, were involved in the extremely lucrative spice trade, especially frankincense and myrrh.[1]

See also

• Ancient history of Yemen
• Yemen
• Sabaean Kingdom
• Qataban
• Minaean language

Bibliography

• Alessandro de Maigret. Arabia Felix, translated Rebecca Thompson. London: Stacey International, 2002. ISBN 1-900988-07-0
• Andrey Korotayev. Ancient Yemen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-19-922237-1.
• Andrey Korotayev. Pre-Islamic Yemen. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1996. ISBN 3-447-03679-6.

External links

• Info Please
• Britannica Online

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