Shara'b Ar Rawnah District () 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 county, counties, several municipality, municip ...

of the

Taiz Governorate Taiz () is a governorates of Yemen, governorate of Yemen. The governorate's capital Taiz, the third-largest city in Yemen, is among the most important commercial centres in the country, owing to its proximity to farmland, the Red Sea port of Mok ...

Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, the north, Oman to Oman–Yemen border, the northeast, the south-eastern part ...

. 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'' (, plural ''Makhaleef''; ) was an administrative division in ancient Yemen and is a geographical term used in Yemen. According to Ya'qubi there were eighty-four ''makhaleef'' in Yemen. The leader of a ''mikhlaf'' is called a ''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 Himyar was a polity in the southern highlands of Yemen, as well as the name of the region which it claimed. Until 110 BCE, it was integrated into the Qatabanian kingdom, afterwards being recognized as an independent kingdom. According to class ...

. According to al-Hamdani and

Nashwan al-Himyari Nashwān ibn Saʻīd al-Ḥimyarī () 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'tazili views. He wrote a Qur'an commentary and ...

, 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 (), 737 – 819 CE / 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 much of his life in Baghdad. L ...

and

Ibn Khaldun Ibn Khaldun (27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732–808 Hijri year, AH) was an Arabs, Arab Islamic scholar, historian, philosopher and sociologist. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages, and cons ...

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) an ...

the word Sharoob () means dates in

classical Arabic Classical Arabic or Quranic Arabic () is the standardized literary form of Arabic used from the 7th century and throughout the Middle Ages, most notably in Umayyad Caliphate, Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphate, Abbasid literary texts such as poetry, e ...

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

Sub-districts

* Al-Ahtub * Al-Asad * Al-Ashjub * Al-Ashraf * Al-Gharbi * Al-Hasyah * Al-Hayajim *

Al-Malawhah Al-Malawhah () is a sub-district located in the Shar'ab ar-Rawnah District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Sau ...

Ar-Ra'inah Ar-Raʿinah () is a sub-district in the Shar'ab ar-Rawnah District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arab ...

Awadir ʿAwadir () is a sub-district in the Shar'ab ar-Rawnah District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen. ʿAwadir had a population of 4,310 at the 2004 census. References Sub-districts in Shar'ab ar-Rawnah District {{Taiz-geo-stub ...

Az-Zagharir Az-Zagharir () is a sub-district in the Shar'ab ar-Rawnah District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arabi ...

Az-Zarari Az-Zarari () is a sub-district of the Shar'ab ar-Rawnah District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arabia� ...

Bani Husam Bani Husam () is a sub-district in the Shar'ab ar-Rawnah District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arabi ...

Bani Murir Bani Murir () is a sub-district located in the Shar'ab ar-Rawnah District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saud ...

Bani Sari Bani Sari () is a sub-district in the Shar'ab ar-Rawnah District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arabia ...

Bani Sumi' Bani Sumiʿ () is a sub-district located in the Shar'ab ar-Rawnah District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Sau ...

Bani Ziad Bani Ziad () is a sub-district located in the Shar'ab ar-Rawnah District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi ...

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

References

Districts of Taiz Governorate {{Taiz-geo-stub