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Arab
Arab

An Arab is a person who Identity as such on linguistic or cultural grounds. The plural form, Arabs , refers to the Ethnocultural group at large....
s are a semitic
Semitic

In linguistics and ethnology, Semitic was first used to refer to a language family of largely Middle Eastern origin, now called the Semitic languages....
 people, descending from various Old North Arabian tribes.

Much of the lineage provided before Ma'ad relies on biblical genealogy and therefore its accuracy from that link uses the bible as a genealogical historical record. The general consensus among 14th century Arabic genealogists is that Arabs are of three kinds:

Perishing Arabs: These are the ancients of whose history little is known.






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Arab
Arab

An Arab is a person who Identity as such on linguistic or cultural grounds. The plural form, Arabs , refers to the Ethnocultural group at large....
s are a semitic
Semitic

In linguistics and ethnology, Semitic was first used to refer to a language family of largely Middle Eastern origin, now called the Semitic languages....
 people, descending from various Old North Arabian tribes.

Much of the lineage provided before Ma'ad relies on biblical genealogy and therefore its accuracy from that link uses the bible as a genealogical historical record. The general consensus among 14th century Arabic genealogists is that Arabs are of three kinds:

Perishing Arabs: These are the ancients of whose history little is known. They include ‘Ad
‘Ad

Ad is the great-grandson of Shem, son of Noah who came from the northeast and was the progenitor of the Adites. Noah is said to be Ad's 3rd grandfather, he being the son of Awadh , who was the son of Eram , who was the son of Shem the son of Noah ....
, Thamud
Thamud

The Thamud were a people of ancient Arabia who were known from the 1st millennium BC to near the time of Muhammad. Although they are thought to have originated in southern Arabia, Arabic tradition has them moving north to settle on the slopes of Mount Athlab near Meda'in Saleh....
, Tasm, Jadis, Imlaq and others. Jadis and Tasm perished because of genocide. Ad and Thamud perished because of their decadence. Some people in the past doubted their existence, but

Imlaq is the singular form of 'Amaleeq and is probably synonymous to the biblical Amalek
Amalek

According to the Book of Genesis and Books of Chronicles, Amalek was the son of Eliphaz and the grandson of Esau ; the chief of an Edomites tribe ....
.

Pure Arabs: They allegedly originated from the progeny of Ya‘rub bin Yashjub bin Qahtan so were also called Qahtanian Arabs.

Arabized Arabs: They allegedly originated from the progeny of Ishmael
Ishmael

Ishmael is a figure in the Torah, Bible, and Qur'an. Judaism, Christianity and Islam Ishmael is Abraham's eldest son or first born and natural heir....
 Son of the biblical patriarch Abraham
Abraham

Abraham is a man featured in the Book of Genesis and an important figure in several monotheistic religions. Judaism, Christianity and Islam traditions regard him as the founding Patriarchs of the Israelites, Ishmaelites and Edomite peoples....
 and the Jumhur tribe, also called ‘Adnani Arabs. Prophet Muhammad
Muhammad

Muhammad Patronymic#Arabic Abd Allah ibn Abd al Muttalib , is the founder of the Major religious groups of Islam and is regarded by Muslims as a Rasul and prophet of , the last and the greatest law-bearer in a series of prophets....
 is an 'Adnani Arab.

Below is a partial list of the tribes of Arabia.

A
  • Abaza Family
    Abaza family

    The Abaza clan, "deeply rooted in Egyptian society and... in the history of the country" is an Egyptian family that plays a powerful and long-standing role in Egyptian economic, intellectual and political life....
    (clan)
  • Ajman (tribe)
    Ajman (tribe)

    Al-'Ajman or al-'Ijman are a bedouin tribe of northeastern Arabia, with members spread across Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and the U.A.E.....
  • 'Ad
  • Al-Awazem
    Al-Awazem

    The Awazem is a influential tribe in Kuwaiti politics. The tribe has an especially strong base in the first electoral district , where it forms about 14% of the voters, and the fifth electoral district , where it accounts for about 21% of voters....
  • Al-Jiburi
    Al-Jiburi

    Al-Jiburi is one of Sunni Arab Tribes in Iraq that scattered throughout Diyala, Mosul, Babil, Al Qadisyah, Zab River, Yusufiyah. Part of the tribe settled in Kirkuk in the 1970s....
  • Al-Khalifa
  • Al-Maadeed
    Al-Maadeed

    Al-Maadeed , also spelled Al-Maadid or Al-Maadhid, is one of the primary tribes in Qatar. Though they are mainly present in Qatar, there are Maadeed's in Kuwait as well as Saudi Arabia....
  • 'Anazah
  • Al Thani
  • Al-Shabeeb
  • Al-Ubaid
  • 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....
  • AlDawasir
    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....


B
  • Balhareth
    Balhareth

    Bani Hareth is one of the Adnani Arabs tribes living around Taif in Saudi Arabia. The tribe is one of the biggest tribes in the area and occupies the full area between Taif and Al Qunfuthah in Saudi....
  • Bani Shehr
    Bani Shehr

    Bani Shehr is a clan from the southern part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It belongs to the ancient tribe Al-Azd that has many clans linked to it....
  • Bani Utub
  • Bani Rasheed
    Bani Rasheed

    Bani Rasheed , also known as Rashaida, is one of the largest tribes in the Arabian Peninsula. It is an Adnani tribe . The great-grandfather of the Bani Rasheed is Rasheed alZaul of the Banu Abs tribe....
  • Bani Zaid
  • Banu Abbas
  • Banu Abd Shams
    Banu Abd Shams

    Banu Abd Shams refers to a clan within the Meccan Quraishi tribe. The clan takes its name from Abd Shams ibn Abd al-Manaf...
  • Banu Abs
    Banu Abs

    The Banu Abs ??? ??? are an ancient Bedouin tribe from central Arabia, they branch from the powerful Ghatafan tribes. They still inhabit the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa....
  • Banu Adi
    Banu Adi

    Banu Adi is a clan of the Quraish tribe.Banu Adi were with the Meccans as part of the escort that preceded the battle of Badr, they did not join Quraish further....
  • Banu Ajlan
  • Banu Amr
    Banu Amr

    Banu Amr bin Auf are an Arabian tribe in Quba, on the outskirts of Medina. Umar and his companions stayed with them during the Hijra from Mecca....
  • Banu Asad
    Banu Asad

    The Bani Assad or Banu Assad is an Arab tribe based in Iraq. Today, many members of the tribe live in major Iraqi cities of Najaf, Nasiriyah, Karbala and Basra as well as in Khuzestan in Ahwaz or Arabistan in Iran and they live with neighboring tribes of Banu Tamim, Banu Malik, and Banu Kaab....
  • Banu Bahr
  • Banu Bakr
    Banu Bakr

    Banu Bakr ibn Wa'il or Banu Bakr, son of Wa'il were an Arabian tribe belonging to the large Rabi'ah branch of Adnanite tribes, which also included 'Anizzah, Taghlib, and Bani Hanifa....
  • Banu Bakr ibn Abd Manat
    Banu Bakr ibn Abd Manat

    The Banu Bakr ibn Abd Manat were an Arabian tribe of the Hejaz region, in western Arabia.During tribes of Arabia during Muhammad's era, they were allies of the Quraish of Mecca....
  • Banu Dhubyan
    Banu Dhubyan

    Dhubyan or Banu Dhubyan ,are an Arabian tribe, of Ghatafan branch ; which is one of the Adnani branches . Banu Dhubyan inhabited hijaz , and were mostly christian ....
     
  • Banu Fazara
  • Ghatafan
  • Banu Ghaniya
    Banu Ghaniya

    The Banu Ghaniya were distant relatives of the Almoravid dynasty, who appointed them as governors of the Balearic Islands in 1126. Following the collapse of the Almoravid power at the hand of the Almohad dynasty in the 1140s, the Banu Ghaniya continued to govern the Balearic Islands as independent emirs until about 1203, with a brief interrup...
  • Banu Ghazan
  • Banu Ghifar
  • Banu Khutheer -clan of Al Hajaj Tribe
    Banu Khutheer -clan of Al Hajaj Tribe

    Banu Khutheer -clan of Al Hajaj Tribe are a clan that originally goes back to their ancestor Hashid, who in turn comes from the house of Himdaan....
  • Banu Khuthayr - Al Qahtan Tribe
  • Banu Khalid
  • Banu Hashim
    Banu Hashim

    Banu Hashim was a clan in the Quraish tribe. Islam's last Prophet, Muhammad, was a member of this clan; his great-grandfather was Hashim ibn Abd Manaf, for whom the clan is named....
  • Banu Hilal
    Banu Hilal

    The Banu Hilal were a confederation of Arab tribes that migrated from Arabia into North Africa in the 11th century, having been sent by the Fatimids to punish the Zirids for abandoning Shiism....
  • Banu Jalaf
    Banu Jalaf

    The Banu Jalaf was a family that ruled Huesca and the region called Barbitanya on the Iberian Peninsula from about 802 to 862, and Barbitanya alone from about 862 to 882....
  • Banu Judham
    Banu Judham

    The Banu Judham is a Yemeni tribe that emigrated to Syria and Iraq and dwelled with the Azd and Banu Hamadan Kahlani tribes. Most Arab genealogists are not sure whether they are a Kahlani or a Himyarite tribe....
  • Banu Jumah
    Banu Jumah

    The Banu Jumah is a clan of the Quraish tribe. They are notable for being allies to the polytheist Meccans and being in war with the Muslims....
  • Banu Kanz
    Banu Kanz

    The Banu Kanz were a group of Rabi'ah Arabs who emigrated to Egypt, eventually dislocating the Beja and penetrating into the Eastern Desert east of the Nile around Aswan....
  • Banu Khazraj
    Banu Khazraj

    The Banu al-Khazraj was one of the tribes of Arabia during Muhammad's era....
  • Banu Khash'am
  • Banu Khuza'a
    Banu Khuza'a

    Banu Khuza'a is an Arabian tribe....
  • Banu Lakhm
    Banu Lakhm

    Banu Lakhm is a large Arab tribe tracing their lineage backto Qahtan, who among many achievements, created anArab kingdom in Al-Hira, near modern Kufa, Iraq....
  • Banu Makhzum
    Banu Makhzum

    Banu Makhzum was one of the wealthy Quraysh#Clans, the Arab tribe of the Prophets in Islam Muhammad.Famous individuals of the Banu Makhzum include...
  • Banu Mustaliq
    Banu Mustaliq

    The Banu Mustaliq are an Arabic tribe. The tribe is a sub-clan of the Banu Khuza'a, descended from Azdi Qahtani. They occupied the territory of Qadid on the Red Sea shore between Jeddah and Rabigh....
  • Banu Mustafa
  • Banu Muttalib
  • Banu Najjar
    Banu Najjar

    The Banu Najjar was one of the Jewish tribes of Arabia during Muhammad's era.They were included in point 31 of the Constitution of Medina as allies to the Muslims, being as "one nation", but retaining their Judaism ....
  • Banu Nawfal
    Banu Nawfal

    Banu Nawfal is a notable Arabic sub-clan of the Quraish tribe. Its progenitor is Nawfal ibn Abd Manaf .Chief: Mut`im ibn ?Adi ...
  • Banu Sahm
    Banu Sahm

    The Banu Sahm is a clan of the Quraish tribe....
  • Banu Salama
    Banu Salama

    Banu Salama Tudjibid family that governed the regions of Huesca and Barbitanya in the Upper Mark of Al-Andalus c. 780-800. In 800 Bahlul Ibn Marzuq, revolted in Zaragoza, take the region and the Banu Salama were deposed....
  • Banu Taim
    Banu Taim

    Banu Taym or Banu Taim is a sub-clan to the Quraish tribe.They come from Taym ibn Murrah....
  • Banu Taghlib
  • Banu Tamim
    Banu Tamim

    Bani Tamim or Banu Tamim or Banu Tameem is one of the largest of all Arab tribes. The tribe's history goes back to pre-Islamic Arabia times, a sister-clan of Quraysh....
  • Banu Umayyah
  • Banu Yam
    Banu Yam

    Banu Yam are a large tribe native to Najran Province in Saudi Arabia, and are the principal tribe of that area. They belong to the Qahtanite branch of Arabian tribes, specifically the group known as Hamdan, and are therefore native to southwestern Arabia....
  • Banu Zahra
  • Banu Zuhrah
    Banu Zuhrah

    Banu Zuhrah is a clan of the Quraish tribe.Akhnas ibn Shariq al-Thaqifi and the Banu Zuhrah where with the Meccan as part of the escort that preceded the battle of Badr, but since he believed the caravan to be safe, he did not join Quraish on their way to a festival in badr....


G
  • 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....
  • Ghamid


H
  • Hakami
    Hakami

    The Hakami tribe or Tribe of Hakam was an Arabian tribe influential in early Muslim politics, particularly during the Umayyad Caliphate. Prior to the rise of Islam, their territory was in southwestern Arabia ....
  • Harb
  • Hashemite
    Hashemite

    Hashemite is the Latinate version of the Arabic: ????? and traditionally refers to those belonging to the Banu Hashim, or "clan of Hashim ibn Abd Manaf", a clan within the larger Quraish tribe....


K
  • Kendah


L
  • Lakhmids
    Lakhmids

    The Lakhmids , Banu Lakhm , Muntherids , were a group of Arab Christians who lived in Southern Iraq, and made al-Hirah their capital in ....


M
  • Manasir
    Manasir

    The Manasir people constitute one of many Sunni Afro-Arab riverine tribes of Northern Sudan. They inhabit the region of the Fourth Cataract of the Nile and call their homeland Dar al-Manasir....
  • Mutayr
    Mutayr

    Mutayr is a large Sunni tribe of the Arabian Peninsula.is believed to be descended from the Adnanite tribe of Ghatafan, a massive pre-Islamic tribe that went to war with Muhammad and participated in the siege of Medina known as the Battle of the Trench in 627....


Q
  • 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....
  • Quraysh
    Quraysh

    Quraysh or Quraish was the dominant tribe of Mecca upon the appearance of the religion of Islam. It was the tribe to which the Islamic Prophet Muhammad belonged, as well as the tribe that led the initial opposition to his message....


R
  • Rashaida


S
  • House of Saud
    House of Saud

    House of Saud is the royal family of the Saudi Arabia. The modern nation of Saudi Arabia was established in 1932, though the roots and influence for the House of Saud had been planted in the Arabian Peninsula several centuries earlier....
  • Subay'
    Subay'

    Subay are a Sunni Muslim tribe of central Saudi Arabia. The tribe is of North Arabian stock, and traces its lineage to the large, ancient tribe of Banu 'Amir, also known as 'Amir ibn Sa'sa'a, who came to dominate Nejd in the medieval period....


T
  • Thamud
    Thamud

    The Thamud were a people of ancient Arabia who were known from the 1st millennium BC to near the time of Muhammad. Although they are thought to have originated in southern Arabia, Arabic tradition has them moving north to settle on the slopes of Mount Athlab near Meda'in Saleh....


U
  • 'Utaybah
    'Utaybah

    Utaybah is a large Sunni Muslim tribe of the Arabian Peninsula and it is the biggest Tribe in Saudi Arabia. As is the case with many other large tribal confederations in the region, the name Otaibah only appeared within the last few centuries....


Z
  • Zahran
    Zahran (tribe)

    Zahran a tribe known for its courageousness and generosity among the Arabs. Along with other Arabian tribes, it is regarded to be of the very few original inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula....


See also

  • History of the Prophets and Kings
  • Arabian tribes that interacted with Muhammad
    Arabian tribes that interacted with Muhammad

    There were several Tribes of Arabia that interacted with Muhammad....
  • Arab tribes in Iraq
    Arab tribes in Iraq

    Many Iraqis identify more or less strongly with a tribe , and some feel a stronger loyalty to their clans or tribes than to any national government. Thirty of the 150 or so identifiable tribes in Iraq are the most influential....
  • Arabs of Khuzestan