Crossword-Solution: IYAS 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Assisted by Al Mothanna, chief of the Beni Sheiban, who had been a subject of Iyas, but had revolted and placed himself under the protection of Abu-bekr, Kaled rapidly reduced the kingdom of Hira, took successively Banikiya, Barasuilia, and El Lis, descended the river to the capital, and there fought an important battle with the combined Persian and Arab forces, the first trial of arms between the followers of Mohammed and those of Zoroaster.

Charged furiously by Al Mothanna, they immediately broke and fled; Hira was left with no other protection than its walls; and Iyas, yielding to necessity, made his submission to the conqueror, and consented to pay a tribute of 290,000 dirhems.

Abu Wathila Iyas Al-Kadi was renowned for his excessive acuteness of mind, observation, and penetration.

Iyas (poet), 291, 292 _muwahhid_, 432 -Muwalladun, 278, 408 _muwashshah_, verse-form, 416, 417, 449 _-Muwatta’_, 337, 408, 409 Muzaffar Qutuz (Mameluke), 446 Muzayna (tribe), 116 -Muzayqiya (surname), 15 _-Muzhir_, 71, 455 Mystical poetry of the Arabs, the, 325, 396-398, 403 Mysticism.