Jewish persecution of Christians in Yemen?

[thephilosopher6]

Wikipedia says,

In AD 516, a tribal unrest broke out in Yemen and several tribal elites fought for power. One of those elites was Joseph Dhu Nuwas or “Yousef Asa’ar”, a Jewish warlord mentioned in ancient south Arabian inscriptions. Syriac and Byzantine sources claim that he fought his war because Christians in Yemen refused to renounce Christianity.

And

“Inscriptions attributed to Yûsuf ’As’ar himself show the great pride he expressed after killing more than 22,000 Christians in Ẓafār and Najran.[22] According to Jamme, Sabaean inscriptions reveal that the combined war booty (excluding deaths) from campaigns waged against the Abyssinians in Ẓafār, the fighters in ’Ašʻarān, Rakbān, Farasān, Muḥwān (Mocha), and the fighters and military units in Najran, amounted to 12,500 war trophies, 11,000 captives and 290,000 camels and bovines and sheep.[16]”

As well as

Historian Glen Bowersock described this as a “savage pogrom that the Jewish king of the Arabs launched against the Christians in the city of Najran. The king himself reported in excruciating detail to his Arab and Persian allies about the massacres he had inflicted on all Christians who refused to convert to Judaism.”[23] There were also reports of massacres and destruction of places of worship by Christians too.[24] Francis Edward Peters wrote that while there is no doubt that this was a religious persecution, it is equally clear that a political struggle was going on as well.[25] It is likely that Dhu Nuwas was a leader of a liberation movement seeking to free Yemen from an increasing foreign meddling in the nation’s affairs, and Judaism became a vital element in the resistance.[17]

Are there any notable martyrs or saints of this period? How come this great persecution is never talked about?

 

[SalamKhan]

How come this great persecution is never talked about?

I guess for the same reason why the massacre at Mamilla is never talked about.

 

[adamhovey1988]

I have a Sunni Muslim friend, from Saudi Arabia, whose mother is yemeni, and of Jewish descent, I will ask him about it. I mean a lot of things, like this tend to get glossed over fairly regularly. A good example, would be the massacre of latins, even though much ink has been spilled about the sack of Constantinople, which granted was also wrong.

 

[thephilosopher6]

Yes, indeed. I am just really interested to know if there are any Christian stories from this period. You’d think this event would be more well know since the Byzantines sent their navy to counter this great persecution and the Qur’an about 100 years later even makes mentions of this persecution period.