Naʽat (), also transliterated as Naʽit, is a village in Kharif District of 'Amran Governorate, Yemen. It is located on Jabal Thanayn, on the eastern side of the al-Bawn plain and close to Raydah.
History Naʽat is an ancient settlement, with pre-Islamic ruins that have survived to the present. The 10th-century writer al-Hamdani mentions the place frequently in his Sifat Jazirat al-Arab and gives a detailed description of its ruins. According to him, the name Naʽat is derived from that of Thawr ( Nāʽiṭ) ibn Sufyān, of the tribe of Hamdan. By the time of al-Hamdani, however, Naʽat was probably already in decline, and it is largely absent from historical accounts during the medieval and early modern periods.
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