| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Hud |
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(h d) (KEY) , a pre-Qur’anic prophet of Islam. Hud unsuccessfully exhorted his South Arabian people, the Ad, to worship the One God. The Qur’an mentions that their incredulity was punished by a decimating “sterilizing wind” (ar-rih al-aqim). While some traditions support the etymological identification of Hud with the biblical Heber, other accounts represent him as a southern Arabian merchant. Several sites are revered as Hud’s tomb, the most notable being in Yemen. Hud is also linked to monuments in Mecca and Damascus. | 1 | | See R. B. Serjeant, Hud and Other Pre-Islamic Prophets of Hadramawt (1954). | 2 |
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