Bayt Zud

Bayt Zud (Bayt Zūd) is a village in Kharif District of 'Amran Governorate, Yemen.^[1]

Bayt Zud
Village
Bayt Zud Location in Yemen
Coordinates: 15.93035°N 44.02673°E / 15.93035; 44.02673[1]
Country	Yemen
Governorate	Amran
District	Maswar
Elevation [1]	8,419 ft (2,566 m)
Time zone	UTC+3 (Yemen Standard Time)

Name and history

According to the 10th-century writer al-Hamdani, Bayt Zud is named after Zuwad b. Sayf b. ʽAmr b. al-Sabīʽ, of the tribe of Hashid.^[2] He clarifies that Zūd, or Zuwad, was the Himyaritic form of the Arabic name Zayd.^[2] He also wrote that Bayt Zud had once been the site of a pre-Islamic palace.^[2] Bayt Zud is also mentioned several times in historical sources, including the Ghayat al-amani of Yahya ibn al-Husayn and the Sirat al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq of Ali ibn Muhammad al-Abbasi.^{[2][note 1]}

Notes

1. Al-Hamdani also mentioned a second Bayt Zud, on Jabal Miswar, but the Ghayat al-amani and the Sirat are not referring to that place, which evidently no longer exists.^[2]