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Yaghuth The Madhhij[1] as well as the people of
Jurash[2] adopted Yaghuth[3] (as their god).
Said the poet:
"May Wadd keep thee and bless thee! For to us it is unlawful With women to daily and wanton; Thus our faith hath resolved[4]." Said another: "Yaghuth led us unto the Murad[5], And we vanquished them before the morning." | |
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FOOTNOTES
1. Ishtiqaq p 237.
2. Buldan vol ii pp 55-66.
3. Ryckmans vol. i, p. 16; Wellhausen, pp 19-22.
4. The verse is by al-Nabighah al-Dhnbyani cf Le Dinan de Nabiga
Dhobyani ed and tr. Hartwig Derenbourg, Paris 1869 also C. A.
Nallino Il verso d'an-Naligah sul dio Wadd,' in Rendironte della
Reale Accademia dei Lincei, ser. v, vol. XXIX (1920) pp 283 290.
5. Ishtiqaq p 238; Nashwan ibn-Said al Himyari Muntakhabat fi
Akhbar al-Yaman min Kitab Shams al-Ulum wa-Dama Kalam al-'Arab
min at Kulum ed. 'Azimuddin Ahmad, Leyden, 1916 p 97.
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