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The Azd or Al Azd, are an Arabian tribe. They were a branch of the Kahlan

Kahlan

Kahlan was one of the main tribal federations of Saba'a in Yemen....
tribe, which was one of the two branches of Qahtan

Qahtanite

The terms Qahtanite and Qahtani refer to Semites peoples either originating in, or claiming genealogy from the southern extent of the Arabian Peninsula, especially from Yemen....
the other being Himyar

Himyar

The Himyarite Kingdom or Himyar , anciently called Homerite Kingdom by the Greeks and the Romans, was a state in ancient Yemen dating from 110 BC Taking the modern date city of Sanaa as its capital after the anciant city of Zafar....
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In the ancient times, they inhabited Ma'rib

Ma'rib

Ma'rib or Marib is the capital town of the Ma'rib Governorate, Yemen and was the capital of the Sabaean kingdom . It is located at , approximately 120 kilometers east of Yemen's modern capital, Sana'a....
, the capital city of the Sabaean Kingdom in modern-day Yemen

Yemen

Yemen , officially the Republic of Yemen is an Arab country located on the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia. Yemen has an estimated population of more than 23 million people and is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the North, the Red Sea to the West, the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden to the South, and Oman to the east....
. Their lands were irrigated by the Ma'rib Dam, which is thought by some to have been one of the Ancient World Wonders because of its size. When the dam collapsed for the third time in the 3rd century AD, a large number of the Azd tribe left Yemen and immigrated in many directions. Azd is also a widely used male name in Yemen.

he 3rd century AD.

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The Azd or Al Azd, are an Arabian tribe. They were a branch of the Kahlan

Kahlan

Kahlan was one of the main tribal federations of Saba'a in Yemen....
tribe, which was one of the two branches of Qahtan

Qahtanite

Himyar

Ma'rib

Yemen

Azd branches

In the 3rd century AD. The Azd branched into four branches each led by one of the sons of Amr bin Muzaqiba

Imran Bin Amr

Imran bin Amr and the bulk of the tribe went to Oman where they established the Azdi presence in Eastern Arabia and later invaded Karman and Shiraz in Southern Persia. Another branch headed west back to Yemen and a group went further West all the way to Tihama on the Red Sea (Azd Al-Suna'a). This branch will become known as Azd Uman after Islam.

Jafna bin Amr

Jafna bin Amr and his family, headed for Syria

Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
where he settled and initiated the kingdom of the Ghassanids

Ghassanids

The Ghassanids were a group of South Arabian Christian tribes that emigrated in the early 3rd century from Yemen to the Hauran in southern Syria, Jordan and the Holy Land where they intermarried with Hellenized Ancient Rome settlers and Greek-speaking Early Christian communities....
who was so named after a spring of water where they stopped on their way to Syria. This branch will produce:

The Ghassanid Dynasy,
A Roman Emperor (Philip the Arab
Philip the Arab

Marcus Julius Philippus or Philippus I Arabs , known in English language as Philip the Arab or formerly in English as Philip the Arabian, was a Roman Emperor from 244 to 249....
)
A Byzantine dynasty (Nikephoros)

The Ghassanids remained mostly Christian and today they makeup the majoirty of Arab Christians in Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, and Syria.

Thalabah bin Amr

Thalabah bin Amr left his tribe Al-Azd for Hijaz and dwelt between Thalabiyah and Dhi Qar. When he gained strength, he headed for Yathrib where he stayed. Of his seed are the great Aws

AWS

AWS or aws can mean:* AWS Shopper, A German manufacturer of a microcar.* A Wilhelm Scream, a punk rock band from Massachusetts.* Abyss Web Server...
and Khazraj, sons of Haritha bin Thalabah. Those will be the muslim Ansar and will produce the last Arab Dynasty in Spain (the Nasrids).

Haritha/Khuza'a bin Amr

Khuza'a known as Haritha Amr bin Muzaqiba. Lead a branch of the Azd

Azd

The Azd or Al Azd, are an Arabian tribe. They were a branch of the Kahlan tribe, which was one of the two branches of Qahtanite the other being Himyar....
Qahtani tribes wandered with his tribe in Hijaz until they came to Mar al-Zahran. Later, they conquered the Haram, and settled in Mecca after having driven away its people, the tribe of Jurhum

Jurhum

Jurhum was a Qahtanite tribe in the Arabian Peninsula. According to Islamic history, the Jurhum are notable as the tribe which encountered Hagar and her son Ishmael in the then barren valley now called Mecca....
, They were later replaced by their Adnani allied tribe of Quraish. Banu Almustaliq will branch out of Khuza'a and settled Qadid on the Red Sea

Red Sea

The Red Sea is a salt water inlet of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb sound and the Gulf of Aden....
shore between Jeddah

Jeddah

Jeddah is a Saudi Arabian city located on the coast of the Red Sea and is the major urban center of western Saudi Arabia. It is the largest city in Makkah Province, and the second largest city in Saudi Arabia after the capital city, Riyadh....
and Rabigh

Rabigh

Rabigh is an ancient town on the western coast of Saudi Arabia . It is in Makkah Province. It used to be named "Al-Johfa" until the early years of the 17th century....
.

Azd 'Uman

The Azd 'Uman were for a while the dominant Arab tribe in the eastern realms of the Caliphate

Caliphate

The caliphate represented the political leadership of the Muslim ummah in classical and medieval Islamic history and juristic theory. The head of state's position is based on the notion of a successor to the Prophets of Islam Muhammad's political authority....
being instrumental in the conquest of Fars, Makran

Makran

Makran is a semi-desert coastal strip in the south of Balochistan , in Iran and Pakistan, along the coast of the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman....
and Sindh

Sindh

Sindh is one of the four Subdivisions of Pakistan of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhi people. Different cultural and ethnic groups also reside in Sindh including Urdu-speaking Muslim refugees who migrated to Pakistan from India upon independence as well as the people migrated from other provinces after independence....
. They were the chief merchant group of Oman

Oman

Oman , officially the Sultanate of Oman , is an Arab country in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It borders the United Arab Emirates on the northwest, Saudi Arabia on the west and Yemen on the southwest....
and Al-Ubulla who organized a trading diaspora with settlements of Persianized Arabs on the coasts of Kirman and Makran extending into Sindh since the days of Ardashir. They were strongly involved in the western trade with India

India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
and with the expansion of the Muslim conquests

Muslim conquests

Arab Muslim conquests , also referred to as the Islamic conquests or Arab conquests, began after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad....
they began to consolidate their commercial and political authority on the eastern frontier. During the early years of the Muslim conquests

Muslim conquests

Arab Muslim conquests , also referred to as the Islamic conquests or Arab conquests, began after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad....
the Azdi ports of Bahrain

Bahrain

The Kingdom of Bahrain, in , , literally Kingdom of the Two Seas).Bahrain is an Arabic island country in the Persian Gulf ruled by the Al Khalifa regime....
and Oman

Oman

Hind

The word Hind may refer to:* al-Hind - The people of India or Indian subcontinent *Hindi, the most widely spoken language in India*Hindu, follower of Hinduism...
. From 637 A.D the conquests of Fars and Makran were dominated by the Azdi and allied tribes from Oman and Bahrain. Between 665 A.D and 683 A.D the Azdi 'Uman became especially prominent due in Basra on account of favors from Ziyad bin Abihi, the Governor of Muawiya I, and his son Ubaidullah. When a member of their tribe Al- Muhallab ibn Abi Suffrah

Mohalib

Al Muhallab ibn Abi Suffrah , originally from Dibba, also known as Mohalib, was an Azdi Arab an eminent military commander in Persia and Arabia....
became governor their influence and wealth increased as he extended Muslim conquests to Makran

Makran

Makran is a semi-desert coastal strip in the south of Balochistan , in Iran and Pakistan, along the coast of the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman....
and Sindh

Sindh

Iraq

Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
. Al-Hajjaj pursued a systematic policy of breaking Umayyad power as a result of which the Azdi also suffered. With the death of Hajjaj and under Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik

Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik

Sulayman bin Abd al-Malik was an Umayyad caliph who ruled from 715 until 717. His father was Abd al-Malik, and he was a younger brother of the previous caliph, al-Walid I....
as Caliph

Caliph

The Caliph is the head of state in a Caliphate, and the title for the leader of the Islamic Ummah, an Islamic community ruled by the Shari'ah....
, their fortunes reversed once again with the appointment of Yazid ibn al-Muhallab

Yazid ibn al-Muhallab

Yazid ibn al-Muhallab was a provincial governor in the time of the Umayyad dynasty.In A.H. 78 Al-Hajjaj bin Yousef appointed al-Muhallab Khurasan's governor....
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Influential people or branches of Azd

The Ghassanids
Ghassanids

The Ghassanids were a group of South Arabian Christian tribes that emigrated in the early 3rd century from Yemen to the Hauran in southern Syria, Jordan and the Holy Land where they intermarried with Hellenized Ancient Rome settlers and Greek-speaking Early Christian communities....
The Roman Emperor (Philip the Arab
Philip the Arab

Marcus Julius Philippus or Philippus I Arabs , known in English language as Philip the Arab or formerly in English as Philip the Arabian, was a Roman Emperor from 244 to 249....
)
The Byzantine dynasty (Nikephoros)
The Nasrid dynasty of Al-Andalus
Al-Andalus

Al-Andalus was the Arabic name given to the parts of the Iberian Peninsula governed by Arab Muslims, at various times in the period between 711 and 1492....
The Nahyan dynasy of the United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates is a federation of seven states situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman and Saudi Arabia....
The Xiberras (Gebara/Sceberras) nobility of Malta (Christian Ghassanid migrants from Alexanderia)
The Muscati Maltese nobility of Arab Siculo origin (Azd Uman) converted to Christianity in the 12th century.
Maurice Xiberras
Maurice Xiberras

Maurice Xiberras is a Gibraltarian people politician....
the first leader of the Democratic Party of British Gibraltar. He is of Maltese (Sceberras/Gebara)nobility
The Dawasir
Dawasir

The al Dawasir is an Arabian bedouin tribe divided into clans and families. The word Dawasir is plural for Dossari The tribe gave its name to the famous valley in Najd, Wadi al-Dawasir , and spread in various parts of the Middle East....
tribe
Jabir ibn Hayyan, a famous Alchemist
Ibn Duraid
Ibn Duraid

Ibn Duraid ??? ???? ?????? , Arab poet and philologist, was born at Basra of south Arabian stock. Here he was trained under various teachers, but fled in 871 to Oman at the time Basra was attacked by the Zanj, under Muhallabi....
Khalil ibn Ahmad
Khalil ibn Ahmad

Khalil ibn Ahmad Al Farahidi was a philologist from southern Arabia . His best known contributions are Kitab al-'Ayn...
Kuthayyir
Kuthayyir

Kuthayyir ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Mulahi , commonly known as Kuthayyir 'Azza was an Arab 'Udhri poet of the Umayyad period from the tribe of Azd....
, Arabic poet
Ibn al-Banna
Ibn al-Banna

Ibn al-Banna al-Marrakushi al-Azdi also known as Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Azdi. [29) December 1256 – c. 1321) was an Arab mathematician and astronomer....
Jabir ibn Zayd Al-Azdi, the co-founder of the Ibadi
Ibadi

The Ibadi movement or Ibadiyya is a form of Islam distinct from the Shi'a and Sunni denominations. It is the dominant form of Islam in Oman....
sect of Islam
Islam

Islam is a Monotheism, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure....
The emir's of UAE
Al Muhallab ibn Abi Suffrah
Ibn Al-Thahabi
Ibn Al-Thahabi

Abu Mohammed Abdellah Ibn Mohammed Al-Azdi , known also as Ibn Al-Thahabi, was an Arab Islamic medicine, famous for writing the first known alphabetical encyclopedia of medicine....

Azd