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Banu Yam

Banu Yam are a large tribe native to Najran Province

Najran Province

Najran is a provinces of Saudi Arabia of Saudi Arabia, located in the south of the country along the border with Yemen. It has an area of 119,000 km?....
in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA , is an Arab country and the largest country of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south....
, and are the principal tribe of that area. They belong to the Qahtanite

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....
branch of Arabian tribes, specifically the group known as Hamdan

Hamdan

Hamdan is a name of Arab origin. Among people named Hamdan include:*Al-Hamdan, famous Druze family*Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Yemeni Guantanamo detainee, driver and bodyguard of Osama bin Laden...
, and are therefore native to southwestern Arabia.

Their traditional way of life was well suited to life in the Arabian Desert

Arabian Desert

The Arabian Desert is a vast desert wilderness stretching from Yemen to the Persian Gulf and Oman to Jordan and Iraq. It occupies most of the Arabian Peninsula with an area of 2,330,000 square kilometers ....
and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands they once lived in. Most have now moved in to small villages and given up their once nomadic way of life.

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Banu Yam are a large tribe native to Najran Province

Najran Province

Najran is a provinces of Saudi Arabia of Saudi Arabia, located in the south of the country along the border with Yemen. It has an area of 119,000 km?....
in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

Qahtanite

Hamdan

Arabian Desert

Tribe

A tribe, viewed historically or developmentally, consists of a social group existing before the development of, or outside of, states.Many anthropologists use the term to refer to societies organized largely on the basis of kinship, especially corporate descent groups ....
of Yam was also the progenitor of two other important tribes: the Al Murrah

Al Murrah

The Al Murrah is a tribe descended from the well-known Banu Yam tribe. Al Murrah are a tribe of camel-herding nomads, recently some of them have taken up perminant settlement near to traditional Oasis....
and the 'Ujman of eastern Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf, in the Southwest Asian region, is an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. Historically and commonly known as the Persian Gulf, this body of water is sometimes Persian Gulf naming dispute referred to as the Arabian Gulf by certain Arab countries or simply The Gulf, although nei...
coast.

The Yam are notable among the tribes of Saudi Arabia for the vast majority of its members traditionally follow the small Isma'ili branch of Shi'ite 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....
. Religious leadership is currently in the hands of the Makrami clan, who joined Yam through alliance some time in the 17th century. Members of the tribe can be found throughout Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

Immigration

While the movement of people has thought throughout history at various levels, modern immigration tourism are considered non-immigrants . Immigration that violates the immigration laws of the destination country is termed illegal immigration or undocumented immigration....
, particularly the areas around 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 Dammam

Dammam

Dammam is the Capital of the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia in Saudi Arabia. Dammam is the largest city in the Eastern Province; Dammam Port is one of the largest on the Persian Gulf....
. Unlike some other tribes of southwestern Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

Bedouin

The Bedouin, , are predominantly Muslim, desert-dwelling Arab nomadic pastoralist, or previously nomadic group, found throughout most of the desert belt extending from the Atlantic coast of the Sahara via the Western Desert , Sinai Peninsula, and Negev to the Arabian Desert....
section, due to the proximity of their territories to the formidable desert known as the Empty Quarter

Empty Quarter

File:Empty quarter Arabia.PNGFile:Rub al Khali 002.JPGFile:Rub al Khali 001.JPGFile:Rub' al Khali sand dunes imaged by Terra .jpgThe Rub' al Khali , which translates as Empty Quarter in English language, is one of the largest sand deserts in the world, encompassing most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula, including sout...
.

They are also unlike some of their neighboring tribes in that they are recorded to have repeatedly raided the neighboring region of Najd

Najd

Nejd or Najd is the central region of the Arabian Peninsula....
, reaching as far north as Dhruma near Riyadh

Riyadh

Riyadh is the Capital of Saudi Arabia and its largest city. It is also the capital of Riyadh Province, and belongs to the historical regions of Nejd and Al-Yamama....
during the time of the First Saudi State

First Saudi State

The First Saudi State was established in the year 1744 when Sheikh Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab settled in Diriyah and Prince Muhammad ibn Saud agreed to support and espouse Wahhab's cause, with a view of cleansing the Islamic faith from what they considered to be distortions of Islamic practice ....
in 1775, and causing much panic.

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