Dhu Shanatir
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| Dhu Shanatir | |||||
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| Reign | 490–517[1] | ||||
| Predecessor | Dhu Ma'ahir (Hassan) | ||||
| Successor | Dhu Nuwas | ||||
| Died | c. 517 | ||||
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Dhu Shanatir (Template:Lang-ar), also spelled Zu Shenatir, was a Hemyarite king who ruled Yemen for 27 years. He was not from the royal family (Tubba').[2] He was known as "The Man with Earrings".[3]
He is known as one of the first recorded serial killers.[4] He lured young boys from the royal family into his home with the promise of food and money,[5] stripped them naked and sodomized them. He then killed them by throwing them naked out of an upper-story window of his home. He was only stopped when Zara'h (Dhu Nuwas)[6] stabbed him.[7] Following his assassination, Dhu Shanatir's decapitated head was displayed from the palace window and Dhu Nawas assumed rulership of the Himyarite Kingdom.[8][9][10]
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References
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- ^ Ibrahim, Mahmood (23 May 2014). Merchant Capital and Islam. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292767720.
- ^ Abbas Faroughy (1947). Introducing Yemen. Orientalia. p. 43.
- ^ Newton, Michael (2006). "History of serial murder". The encyclopedia of serial killers (2nd ed.). New York: Facts On File. p. 116. ISBN 0816069875.
- ^ Ramsland, Katherine (2005). The human predator : a historical chronicle of serial murder and forensic investigation (1st ed.). New York: Berkley Books. pp. 8–9. ISBN 042520765X.
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- ^ Horberg, Karl (8 May 1997). "Into the Abyss". Paper Street Productions. Archived from the original on 26 April 2005.
- ^ Tabari (4 November 1999). The History of al-Tabari, Vol. 5: The Sasanids, the Byzantines, the Lakhmids, and Yemen. SUNY Press. pp. 189, 190. ISBN 9780791497227.
- ^ "نوادر المخطوطات • الموقع الرسمي للمكتبة الشاملة". shamela.ws (in Arabic). Retrieved 19 October 2018.
- ^ Scham, Sandra (19 January 2018). Extremism, Ancient and Modern: Insurgency, Terror and Empire in the Middle East. Routledge. ISBN 9781351846547.
- Masters, Robert E. L.; Eduard Lea (1963). Sex crimes in history: evolving concepts of sadism, lust-murder, and necrophilia, from ancient to modern times. Julian Press. p. 211.