BISNIS KAUM LAKHMI (1)

Mohammad Suyanto

The Lakhmi are a people who lived in southern Iraq. A history mentions Malik ibn al-Fahm Adzi as the first leader of the Arab settlement in Iraq, and made his son, Jadhimah al-abrasion, as the representative of Ardasyir. The founder of the kingdom is actually Lakhmi 'Amr ibn' Adi ibn Nasr ibn ibn Rabi'a Lakhm, boys Jadhimah sisters, who married Jadhimah servants. 'Amr Hirah consolidate its position in which he made as the capital of his government in 266 AD, not the ancient Babylonian jaduh dai .. Hirah derived from Syriac, Herta, camp. Hirah city was later developed into the Arab capital of Persia. The ruins of al-Hirah located 3 km south of Kufa.

With the establishment of Lakhmi Dynasty in the second half of the third century AD, there were about 20 names Lakhmi kings, the first king known clearly is Imru 'al-Qays I (d. 328 AD), the inscription on his tombstone is a proto-Arabic writing The oldest found. Writing letters merupkan variations of Nabasia people and show many signs of the transition to the North Arabic script the latter, especially from the merging letters. Among the descendants Imru 'al-Qays, al-Nu'man I, al A'war (the eye one, c. 400-418), who excelled in the field of poetry and legend. He was praised for developing al-Khawarnaq, a famous castle near Hirah, residence Bahram Gor, son Yazdagird I (399-420), who desire that her son dibeasarkan in the midst of a healthy desert. Al-Khawarnaq regarded as a result of the great works of art and claimed by later historians as the work of Byzantine architecture had a habit of killing their legendary architect after completing his work to ensure that they do not make a copy. Al-Num'man remain a pagan all his life and a moment never to execute people who are Christians. He also forbade Arabs to visit the hermit Saint Simeon, though at the end of his life he felt closer to the Christian religion. Simeon himself was an Arab, and people gathered from the desert to see the interesting sights of a hermit who lived on the top of the tower.