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tihamah wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 etymology 2 history toggle history subsection 2 1 era of muhammad 3 geography toggle geography subsection 3 1 climate 4 flora 5 archaeology 6 see also 7 references toggle references subsection 7 1 notes 7 2 citations 8 further reading 9 external links toggle the table of contents tihamah 42 languages العربية مصرى azərbaycanca تۆرکجه български বাংলা català cebuano čeština deutsch español euskara فارسی français gàidhlig galego हिन्दी hrvatski հայերեն bahasa indonesia italiano 日本語 ქართული қазақша lietuvių norsk nynorsk naijá polski پنجابی português русский سنڌي srpskohrvatski српскохрватски سرائیکی slovenščina 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aqaba to the bab el mandeb 2 etymology edit tihāmat is the proto semitic language s term for sea tiamat was the ancient mesopotamian god of the sea and of chaos the word appears in masculine form in the hebrew bible as təhōm genesis 1 2 meaning primordial ocean abyss 3 history edit this section needs expansion with post muhammad era you can help by adding missing information may 2020 era of muhammad edit main article list of expeditions of muhammad during the era of the islamic prophet muhammad many military expeditions took place here including the battle of hamra al asad and caravan raids beginning in january 623 ce some of the muslims resorted to the tradition of raiding the meccan caravans that traveled along the eastern coast of the red sea from mecca to the syrian region 4 while at ḥamra al asad حَمْرَاء ٱلْأَسَد muhammad made an agreement with mabad al khuzaah at tihamah in which mabad pledged not to conceal anything from him mabad was then sent to mecca to dissuade abu sufyan ibn harb from fighting 5 341 in mecca mabad met with abu sufyan and exaggerated that muhammad had gathered a great force to fight abu sufyan abu sufyan and his companions were planning a massive and decisive attack on medina to finish off the muslims once and for all hearing mabad s talk of the great military strength of muhammad abu sufyan retreated from his plan of an immediate attack on the muslims in this fashion muhammad successfully managed to prevent the massive onslaught the meccans were planning 6 5 342 geography edit red sea topographic map the region is sometimes subdivided into two parts tihāmat al ḥijaz تِهَامَة ٱلْحِجَاز northern part and tihāmat ʿasīr تِهَامَة عَسِيْر southern part 2 the yemeni part arabic تِهَامَة ٱلْيَمَن romanized tihāmat al yaman is an extension of tihamat ʿasir 7 the plain is constricted and attains its greatest widths 60 to 80 km 37 to 50 miles south of medina and mecca 2 the cities of yanbu jeddah and al qunfudhah are located in the hijazi part of the tihamah the asiri yemeni part of the tihami plain includes the cities of jizan and al hudaydah climate edit the temperatures in tihamah are probably some of the hottest on earth tihamah in arabic means severe heat and lack of wind 8 flora edit date palm trees on the yemeni coast of the red sea near khaukha jeddah in the saudi part of the tihamah the extensive sandy coastal plain the tihamah is a hot and inhospitable area parallel to the red sea and most of it north of zabid yemen is devoid of trees however in a few places there is dense shrub composed almost exclusively of vachellia flava and it may be assumed that this was originally the dominant natural vegetation of the tihamah salvadora persica occurs in thickets and there are odd trees of balanites aegyptiaca and colonies of wild doum palm hyphaene thebaica as well as planted date palms phoenix dactylifera 9 archaeology edit over sixteen megalithic menhirs were discovered by edward keall director of the royal ontario museum s canadian archaeological mission near the village of al mutaynah ٱلْمُتَيْنَة in the tihami area the stones were made of granite and weighted up to 20 tonnes 20 000 kg three of the upright stones measured around 8 feet 2 4 m tall with one fallen being over 20 metres 66 ft in length copper tools suggested to date to the same era as the construction of the stones were dated to around 2400 to 1800 bce an even more archaic lithic industry was found along with pottery sherds that were dated between 1200 and 800 bce 10 see also edit history portal asia portal saudi arabia portal yemen portal tihamah region a federal region in yemen kingdom of hejaz najd references edit notes edit arabic تِهَامَةُ romanized tihāmah citations edit yemen s tihama people a forgotten story under houthi rule washingtoninstitute org july 22 2025 1 2 3 arabia encyclopædia britannica retrieved 20 march 2013 the red sea coastal plain is constricted throughout its length attaining its greatest widths 40 to 50 miles south of medina and south of mecca the name tihāmah used for the whole plain is sometimes subdivided into tihāmat al ḥijāz and tihāmat ʿasīr stefan weninger ed 2011 semitic languages an international handbook berlin boston walter de gruyter gmbh co kg lapidus ira m 2002 a history of islamic societies cambridge university press p 27 isbn 978 0 5217 7933 3 1 2 al mubarakpuri saifur rahman 2002 the sealed nectar biography of the noble prophet darussalam publications pp 341 342 isbn 978 9960 899 55 8 habriel richard a 2005 muhammad islams first great general blackwell p 124 isbn 978 0 8061 3860 2 yemen encyclopædia britannica retrieved 20 march 2013 yemen may be divided into five major regions a coastal plain running north south known as the tihāmah an extension of the tihāmat ʿasīr the western highlands the central mountains the yemen highlands the eastern highlands and finally the eastern and northeastern desert regions shawqi abu khalil 2004 atlas on the prophet s biography darussalam p 31 isbn 9 9608 9771 0 retrieved 20 march 2013 it is so called because of its severe heat and lack of wind from the word at taham which refers to extreme heat and lack of wind hepper f n july 1978 were there forests in the yemen proceedings of the seminar for arabian studies 9 1979 65 71 jstor 41223217 harrington spencer p m december 10 1997 yemeni megaliths archaeology the archaeological institute of america further reading edit thesieger wilfred 1947 a journey through the tihama the asir and the hijaz mountains the geographical journal 110 4 6 the royal geographical society with the institute of british geographers 188 200 bibcode 1947geogj 110 188t doi 10 2307 1789949 jstor 1789949 external links edit tihamah at wikipedia s sister projects media from commons data from wikidata library resources about tihamah resources in your library resources in other libraries v t e geographic regions of the arabian peninsula south arabia yemen upper yemen lower yemen hadhramaut mahra dhofar oman bahrain najd hejaz tihamah southern levant southern mesopotamia v t e middle eastern megaliths lebanon sands of beirut hermel kouachra tlail wadi boura syria stone circles lines and tombs near the monastery of st moses the abyssinian saudi arabia hejaz tihamah israel atlit yam dan ancient city jordan johfiyeh amman turkey göbekli tepe karahan tepe sayburç egypt nabta playa iran kharg island iraq barda balka general articles standing stone dolmen henge menhir stone circle stone row concentric stone circle recumbent stone circle chambered cairn harrespil photographs of stone circles european megaliths portals yemen saudi arabia asia middle east retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title tihamah oldid 1375687468 categories megalithic monuments in the middle east landforms of saudi arabia landforms of yemen plains of asia historical regions in saudi arabia regions of yemen tiamat coastal plains geographical regions of the arabian peninsula tihamah hidden categories articles 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