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Sīrat fāris al-Yaman wa mubīd ahl al-kufr wa al-miḥan Sayf ibn Dhī Yazan (The biography of the Knight of Yemen, obliterator of the people of infidelity and commotion, Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan) is a popular Arab folk epic. It is loosely based on the life of Sayf Ibn Dhi Yazan, who ruled Yemen in the late sixth century. Yemen became involved in the Persian-Byzantine struggle for control of the trade between India and the Mediterranean and, before it became Islamic, was for a time a Persian protectorate. This popular sirah ...