Shara'b Ar Rawnah District ( ar, مديرية شرعب الرونة) is a
district
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of the
Taiz Governorate
Taiz ( ar, تَعِزّ, Taʿizz) is a governorates of Yemen, governorate of Yemen. The governorate's capital is Taiz, which is the third largest city in Yemen. Today it is the most important commercial centre in Yemen owing to its proximity to t ...
,
Yemen
Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...
. As of 2003, the district had a population of 186,955 inhabitants.
Etymology
Shara'b Ar Rawnah is part of the Shara'b
Mikhlaf
''Mikhlaf'' ( ar, مخلاف, plural ''Makhleef''; ) was an administrative division in ancient Yemen and is a geographical term used in Yemen. According to Ya'qubi there were eighty-four Mikhlaf in Yemen. The leader of the Mikhlaf is called ''Q ...
that includes both
Shara'b As Salam and Shara'b Ar Rawnah. The Mikhlaf was founded by the tribe of Banu Shar'ab, which is a tribe from
Himyar
The Himyarite Kingdom ( ar, مملكة حِمْيَر, Mamlakat Ḥimyar, he, ממלכת חִמְיָר), or Himyar ( ar, حِمْيَر, ''Ḥimyar'', / 𐩹𐩧𐩺𐩵𐩬) (fl. 110 BCE–520s CE), historically referred to as the Homerite ...
. According to
al-Hamdani and
Nashwan al-Himyari, it is descended from Shar'ab Ibn Sahl Ibn Zaid Ibn 'Amru Ibn Qais Ibn Jusham Ibn Abd Shams Ibn Wail Ibn al-Ghwth Ibn Qotn Ibn 'Aurib Ibn Zuhir Ibn Aiman Ibn Homisa' Ibn Himyar.
Ibn al-Kalbi
Hishām ibn al-Kalbī ( ar, هشام بن الكلبي), 737 AD – 819 AD/204 AH, also known as Ibn al-Kalbi (), was an Arab historian. His full name was Abu al-Mundhir Hisham ibn Muhammad ibn al-Sa'ib ibn Bishr al-Kalbi. Born in Kufa, he spent ...
and
Ibn Khaldun say Shar'ab Ibn Qais without "Sahl Ibn Zaid Ibn ‘Amru". According to
Ibn Sidah
Abū’l-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Ismāʻīl (), known as Ibn Sīdah (), or Ibn Sīdah'l-Mursī (), (c.1007-1066), was a linguist, philologist and lexicographer of Classical Arabic from Andalusia. He compiled the encyclopedia ' ()(Book of Customs) and ...
the word Sharoob () means dates in
classical Arabic and Shar'ab means a tall person with a well shaped body. The Sharabi spears ( ar, الرماح الشرعبية) and an outer cloak called ''al-Shar'abiah'' ( ar, الشرعبية) are attributed to the tribe of Shara'b.
Sub-districts
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Al-Ahtub
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Al-Asad
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Al-Ashjub
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Al-Ashraf
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Al-Gharbi
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Al-Hasyah
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Al-Hayajim
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Al-Malawhah
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Ar-Ra'inah
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Awadir
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Az-Zagharir
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Az-Zarari
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Bani Husam
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Bani Murir
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Bani Sari
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Bani Sumi'
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Bani Ziad
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Hilyah
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Murkhah
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Nisf al-Ozal
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Sharqi Himyar
References
Districts of Taiz Governorate
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