- Tub'a Abu Kariba As'ad
Tub'a Abu Kariba As'ad was the
Himyarite king ofYemen . He ruled Yemen from 390-420 CE.Invading Yathrib
Abu Kariba invaded
Yathrib (now Medina) to sack the Jews of that city. However, somehow he returned to Yemen with two rabbis and became a hjlkconvert to Judaism . Many Yemenites followed their king, and conversions intoJudaism became common until theAksumite invasion of Western Yemen forcing theHimayarite king,Rabiah ibn Mudhar was forced to flee. [ [http://www.geocities.com/jewishwarriors/yemen.html Jewish warriors] ]Notes
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