An enigmatic religious community, the Sabeans are mentioned three times in the appearing each time alongside the Jews and the Christians as ‘People of the Book’. Their identity has been the subject of much debate by Muslim exegetes and...

The Sabaeans (Arabic: السبأيين) were an ancient people speaking an Old South Arabian language who lived in what is today Yemen, in south west Arabian Peninsula; in the 8th century BC some Sabaeans also lived in D'mt, located in northern Ethiopia...