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https://www.academia.edu/24644246/Yemen_s_Past_and_Perspectives_are_in_Africa_not_a_fictitious_Arab_world_by_Prof._M._S._Megalommatis
See also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpOx9...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqaqq...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cke9g...
Excerpts:
During all these long centuries, the peoples and the socio-ethnic groups of ancient Yemen could not be kept united under the scepter of a descendant of the famous Queen Balqis, the Biblical Queen of Sheba. Yet, writing was introduced as early as the 6th century BCE, or to put it better, it was invented! It would be essential at this point to stress the originality of the event! At a moment the Assyrian – Babylonian cuneiform (‘al kitabeh al mesmariyeh’ in Arabic), syllabic writing (the term means that the cuneiform characters were of syllabic phonetic value) was diffused in Iran (introduction of the old Persian Achaemenid cuneiform writing system that was in use for about 300 to 400 years), and the Phoenician and the Aramaic alphabetic writings were diffused throughout the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East (more precisely among Greeks, Israelites, Romans, and others), the different peoples of Ancient Yemen, instead of adopting a foreign writing system, developed their own syllabic writing, no less than 1200 years before the arrival of Islam!
Through a historical overview of almost 1400 years of Yemenite pre-Islamic history (based on Assyrian - Babylonian, Yemenite, Persian, Ancient Greek, Latin and Aramaic sources), we can get a clear diagram of several basic cultural characteristics of the Yemenite Nation. The geographical divisions of the land of Yemen, many mountains and plains, various coastal strips, all oriented differently to the outer world, were probably the reason of the political disunion that mostly characterized Yemen. Of course, this was repeated throughout Islamic times, but it would be wrong for us to perceive disunion in terms of enmity, fratricide or civil wars. We should rather see the various ancient Yemenite states in terms of specific task assignments. The war of Sabaa and Himyar against Qataban (around 115 BCE) is rather due to Sabaean and Himyarite reactions to the Qatabanic performance with respect to the preservation of the Yemenite thalassocracy and the complete navigation control throughout the Red Sea at a moment of rise of Ptolemaic Egyptian seafaring and sea trade in which the Aramaeans seem to have been definitely involved.
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From:
Yemen’s Past and Perspectives are in Africa, not a fictitious 'Arab' world
By Prof. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
First published in Buzzle on 4th August 2005
www.buzzle.com/editorials/8-4-2005-74197.asp
Republished:
http://phoenicia.org/imgs/YemenAfrica...
Leading article by the distinguished Professor Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis which explains the troublesome background that led to the miserable, evil and inhuman situation in which Yemen has been plunged because of the criminal attacks undertaken by the shameful Arab League countries.
https://www.academia.edu/24643928/Yem...
and
https://www.academia.edu/24644246/Yem...
Music accompaniment:
Hüzzam Fasıl - Hüzzam Şarkılar
Original source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhqB9...