al-Shihab ibn al-Hayyim 'al-Qa'im'

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Shihab al-Din Ibn al-Hayyim, styled al-Qa'im; the poet of his age, born 799, who studied and grasped something of the sciences, excelled in poetry and its arts, and stood alone in his last years — a large diwan all of surpassing beauty; he died in Jumada II 787. ¹

al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant

Al-Hamdani's register of the peninsula's tongues records that the highland Himyar and Ja'da keep 'something of tanahmir' — Himyaritic speech — eliding consonants: 'bi-bn Ma'am' for 'bi-bn al-'amm', 'simmi'' for 'isma''. He counts Kinda and Hamdan the most eloquent of the south, says Mahra's speech resembles the 'ajam's, and names Nahj, Abyan and Dathina the purest — the earliest detailed witness to Old Himyaritic surviving on fourth-century tongues.

al-Shihab ibn al-Hayyim 'al-Qa'im'

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al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant