Najd
place · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
نجد
in the texts
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
Central Arabia, named as one of three far-apart regions whose independent informants make collusion among genealogists impossible.
A genealogist might gather his reports from the people of Najd, the Ḥijāz and al-Yaman by asking the trustworthy in those regions whose ends lie far apart:
They commonly drew their similitudes from the beasts, and scarcely blamed or praised except by that means, because they had set their dwellings among the beasts of prey, the reptiles and the insects, and used them for comparison from their familiarity with their natures — and especially the ʻAdnānī tribes, since they dwelt in the deserts of Najd and the Ḥijāz, their country being rougher and harsh …
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
Central Arabian region named in the form-taking tradition and twice in the topographical footnotes.
And Taymāʼ is a well-known village about ten hours from the station of al-Muʻaẓẓam — one of the stations and halts of the Ḥijāz Railway — belonging to the government of Najd
Mālik — and against his taking the form of the shaykh of Najd
the wilderness, and a place belonging to Tamīm in Najd