Bayt Baws
بيت بوس
Village
Bayt Baws is located in Yemen
Bayt Baws
Bayt Baws
Location in Yemen
Coordinates: 15°16′23″N 44°12′13″E / 15.2731°N 44.20356°E / 15.2731; 44.20356[1]
Country Yemen
GovernorateSanaa
DistrictBani Matar
Elevation
[1]
7,680 ft (2,341 m)
Time zoneUTC+3 (Yemen Standard Time)

Bayt Baws (Arabic: بيت بوس Bayt Baws) is a historic village and fortress in Bani Matar District of Sanaa Governorate, Yemen.[1][2] It is a largely deserted Jewish settlement.[3] It is located to the south of Sanaa, in a strategic position on the western side of the Sanaa plain.[2] It served as a locally important stronghold throughout the middle ages and was especially used as a staging point for campaigns against Sanaa.[2] Its period of greatest significance was during the campaigns of Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya, the first Imam of Yemen.[2] According to tradition, Bayt Baws is named after a person named Dhū Baws, whose genealogy is given either as Dhū Baws b. ‘Abd al-Rahmān b. Zayd b. ‘Abd Il b. Sharḥabīl b. Marāthid b. Dhī Saḥar[4] or as Dhū Baws b. Barīl b. Sharaḥbīl, of the tribe of Himyar.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Geonames.org. Bayt Baws". Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Wilson, Robert T.O. (1989). Gazetteer of Historical North-West Yemen. Germany: Georg Olms AG. p. 105. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  3. ↑ "Bayt Baws Sana'a, Yemen A nearly abandoned Jewish settlement perched atop a hill in the heart of Yemen". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  4. ↑ Eagle, A.B.D.R. (1990). Ghayat al-amani and the life and times of al-Hadi Yahya b. al-Husayn: an introduction, newly edited text and translation with detailed annotation. Durham University. p. 170. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
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