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Ad Iram · Adramitae · ʻĀd · عاد · عاد ارم
in the texts
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
Qurʼanic nation named among those destroyed.
The bedouin claim that when God, exalted be He, destroyed the nation called Wabār — as He destroyed Ṭasm and Jadīs and ʻImlāq and Thamūd and ʻĀd — the jinn settled in their dwellings and guarded them against everyone who sought them;
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The extinct Arabian tribe of ʻĀd, identified by the author with the Adramitae of the Greeks and with the biblical Hadoram of al-Yaman.
but we have shown, in an article of ours upon this subject (al-Hilāl 23, year 6), that the Greeks did mention them under the name «ʻĀd Iram», writing it Adramitae to distinguish it from Ḥaḍramawt, whose name with them is Xatramotitae;
And so it ought to be said of the legends of the Arabs — the reports of ʻĀd and Thamūd, Ṭasm and Jadīs, the reports of the flood of al-ʻArim and the like;
ʻĀd and Thamūd