Kasuslambia

The other tribes claimed to be present at this time in Arabia, were the Thamud, Jurhum, Tasam, Jadis, Amim, Midian, Amalek Imlaq, Jasim, Qahtan, Banu Yaqtan and others.[11] The Quran gives the location of ʿĀd as being Al-Aḥqāf (Arabic: الأَحقَاف‎, "The Sandy Plains," or "the Wind-curved Sand-hills").[6][12][13] It is believed to have been in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula, possibly in eastern Yemen and/or western Oman. In November 1991, a settlement was discovered and hypothesized for Ubar,[14] which is thought to be mentioned in the Qur'an as Iram dhāṫ al-‘Imād (Arabic: إِرَم ذَات العِمَاد‎, Iram of the Pillars; an alternative translation is Iram of the tentpoles),[8][13] and may have been the capital of ʿĀd. One of the members of the original expedition, archeologist Juris Zarins, however, later concluded that the discovery did not represent a city called Ubar.[15][16] In a 1996 interview on the subject he said: If you look at the classical texts and the Arab historical sources, Ubar refers to a region and a group of people, not to a specific town. People always overlook that. It's very clear on Ptolemy's second century map of the area. It says in big letters "Iobaritae". And in his text that accompanied the maps, he's very clear about that. It was only the late medieval version of One Thousand and One Nights, in the fourteenth or fifteenth century, that romanticised Ubar and turned it into a city, rather than a region or a people."[17]