Shara'b Ar Rawnah District ( ar, مديرية شرعب الرونة) is a

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

of the

Taiz Governorate Taiz ( ar, تَعِزّ, Taʿizz) is a governorate of Yemen. The governorate's capital is Taiz, which is the third largest city in Yemen. Today it is the most important commercial centre in Yemen owing to its proximity to the richest farmland in ...

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

. As of 2003, the district had a population of 186,955 inhabitants.

Etymology

Shara'b Ar Rawnah is part of the Shara'b

Mikhlaf ''Mikhlaf'' ( ar, مخلاف, plural ''Makhleef''; ) was an administrative division in ancient Yemen and is a geographical term used in Yemen. According to Ya'qubi there were eighty-four Mikhlaf in Yemen. The leader of the Mikhlaf is called ''Qil' ...

that includes both Shara'b As Salam and Shara'b Ar Rawnah. The Mikhlaf was founded by the tribe of Banu Shar'ab, which is a tribe from

Himyar The Himyarite Kingdom ( ar, مملكة حِمْيَر, Mamlakat Ḥimyar, he, ממלכת חִמְיָר), or Himyar ( ar, حِمْيَر, ''Ḥimyar'', / 𐩹𐩧𐩺𐩵𐩬) ( fl. 110 BCE–520s CE), historically referred to as the Homerit ...

. According to al-Hamdani and

Nashwan al-Himyari Nashwān ibn Saʻīd al-Ḥimyarī ( ar, نشوان ابن سعيد الحميري) was a Yemeni theologian, judge, philologist, poet and historian. Life He was a member of a nobel Yemeni family from Uawt near Sanaa. He is said to have some Mu't ...

, it is descended from Shar'ab Ibn Sahl Ibn Zaid Ibn 'Amru Ibn Qais Ibn Jusham Ibn Abd Shams Ibn Wail Ibn al-Ghwth Ibn Qotn Ibn 'Aurib Ibn Zuhir Ibn Aiman Ibn Homisa' Ibn Himyar.

Ibn al-Kalbi Hishām ibn al-Kalbī ( ar, هشام بن الكلبي), 737 AD – 819 AD/204 AH, also known as Ibn al-Kalbi (), was an Arab historian. His full name was Abu al-Mundhir Hisham ibn Muhammad ibn al-Sa'ib ibn Bishr al-Kalbi. Born in Kufa, he spent ...

and

Ibn Khaldun Ibn Khaldun (; ar, أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي, ; 27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732-808 AH) was an Arab The Historical Muhammad', Irving M. Zeitlin, (Polity Press, 2007), p. 21; "It is, of ...

say Shar'ab Ibn Qais without "Sahl Ibn Zaid Ibn ‘Amru". According to

Ibn Sidah Abū’l-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Ismāʻīl (), known as Ibn Sīdah (), or Ibn Sīdah'l-Mursī (), (c.1007-1066), was a linguist, philologist and lexicographer of Classical Arabic from Andalusia. He compiled the encyclopedia ' ()(Book of Customs) and ...

the word Sharoob () means dates in

classical Arabic Classical Arabic ( ar, links=no, ٱلْعَرَبِيَّةُ ٱلْفُصْحَىٰ, al-ʿarabīyah al-fuṣḥā) or Quranic Arabic is the standardized literary form of Arabic used from the 7th century and throughout the Middle Ages, most notab ...

and Shar'ab means a tall person with a well shaped body. The Sharabi spears ( ar, الرماح الشرعبية) and an outer cloak called ''al-Shar'abiah'' ( ar, الشرعبية) are attributed to the tribe of Shara'b.

Sub-districts

Al-Ahtub Al-Aḥṭub ( ar, الاحطوب) is a sub-district located in the Shar'ab ar-Rawnah District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situ ...

* Al-Asad * Al-Ashjub *

Al-Ashraf __NOTOC__ Al-Ashraf, either from ( ar, الأشرف, 'the most noble') or (, 'the nobles'), may refer to: People * Al-Ashraf Al-Barsbay, Burji Mamluk sultan of Egypt (1422–1438) * Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri, Mamluk Sultan (1501–1516) * Al-Ash ...

* Al-Gharbi * Al-Hasyah * Al-Hayajim *

Al-Malawhah Al-Malawhah ( ar, الملاوحة) is a sub-district located in the Shar'ab ar-Rawnah District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is sit ...

Ar-Ra'inah Ar-Raʿinah ( ar, الرعينة) is a sub-district located in the Shar'ab ar-Rawnah District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situa ...

Awadir ʿAwadir ( ar, عوادر) is a sub-district located in the Shar'ab ar-Rawnah District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on ...

Az-Zagharir Az-Zagharir ( ar, الزغارير) is a sub-district located in the Shar'ab ar-Rawnah District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is sit ...

Az-Zarari Az-Zarari ( ar, الزراري) is a sub-district located in the Shar'ab ar-Rawnah District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situate ...

Bani Husam Bani Husam ( ar, بني حسام, Bani Ḥusam) is a sub-district located in the Shar'ab ar-Rawnah District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asi ...

Bani Murir Bani Murir ( ar, بني مرير) is a sub-district located in the Shar'ab ar-Rawnah District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situa ...

Bani Sari Bani Sari ( ar, بني سري) is a sub-district located in the Shar'ab ar-Rawnah District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

Bani Sumi' Bani Sumiʿ ( ar, بني سميع) is a 'Uzlah, sub-district located in the Shar'ab ar-Rawnah District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen. Bani Sumiʿ had a population of 6,692 according to the 2004 census. References

Sub-districts in Shar'ab ar-Raw ...

Bani Ziad Bani Ziad ( ar, بني زياد) is a sub-district located in the Shar'ab ar-Rawnah District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situat ...

* Hilyah * Murkhah * Nisf al-Ozal * Sharqi Himyar

References

Districts of Taiz Governorate {{Yemen-geo-stub