Jadis
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Jadīs · Jodisitai · Jolisitai · جديس
in the texts
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
Ancient Arabian 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
An extinct Arabian tribe whose Greek transcription the author emends from Jolisitai to Jodisitai on the ground that lambda and delta are easily confused.
for the Greeks wrote it Jolisitai, whereas the likelier original, in our belief, is Jodisitai, the dāl having been exchanged for a lām, the two being alike in the Greek language, since the lām is written thus Λ and the dhāl thus Δ.
for when he came upon what McLennan had written concerning the totem among the savage tribes — he being an Orientalist acquainted with the reports of the Arabs, ill-thinking of their Jāhilīyah, contemptuous of the sayings of their transmitters and their genealogists — and saw among the names of the fathers of the tribes and the sub-tribes what resembles the names of animals, it leapt at once into …