List of Arab tribes
This list of Arab tribes includes tribes with an Arab tradition.
Tribe (Banu, Bani, Beni) | بنو / بني | region | time | comment |
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Ababde | عبابدة | Upper Egypt | ||
Ad | عاد | Oman / Yemen | extinct | |
Amir | عامر | Yemen | ||
Anaiza | عنزة | Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, VAR | ||
Ashjaʿ | أشجع | Medina | Time of Muhammad | |
Aulaqi | عولقي | Yemen | ||
Out | أوس | Medina | 5th to 7th centuries | |
Avamir | عوامر | southern and eastern Arabia | ||
Azd | أزد | Yemen, Oman | ||
Baggara | بقارة | Sudan / Chad | ||
Bahila | باهلة | between Mecca and the Najd | pre-islamic time | |
Bariq | بارق | Yemen | ||
B'doul | Wadi Musa | |||
Chathʿam | خثعم | 6th century | ||
Khazradsch | خزرج | Medina | ||
Chuzāʿa | خزاعة | Mecca | ||
Dulaimi | دليم | Iraq | ||
Ghassanids | غسان | Iraq | ||
Ghatafān | غطفان | |||
Hashid | حاشد | Yemen | ||
Hashim | هاشم | Mecca and Medina | ||
Hassan | Jordan | |||
Hassan | حسان | Maghreb | ||
Hilāl | هلال | Maghreb | ||
Himyar | حمير | Yemen | 1st century BC Chr. To 570 AD | |
Hudhail | هذيل | Hejaz | ||
Howeitat | حويطات | Tabuk Province | ||
Ifran | يفرن | Algeria and Morocco | ||
Kathiri | كثيري | Yemen | ||
Kinana | كنانة | Surroundings of Mecca | ||
Kinda | كندة | Central Arabia | 6th century | |
Kunta | Mauritania | |||
Laughmids | لخم | Iraq | Late antiquity | |
Lihyan | لحيان | northwestern Arabian Peninsula | 6th to 4th century BC Chr. | |
Main | معين | Yemen | 6th century BC Chr. | |
Murra | مرة | Medina | Time of Muhammad | |
Muzaina | مزينة | North arabia | Time of Muhammad | |
Nabataeans | أنباط | East Bank, North Arabia, Sinai | 550 BC Chr. To 100 AD | Tribal union |
an-nadir | النضير | Medina | pre-islamic time | jewish tribe |
Qaila | Medina | Generic term for the Aus and Khasradsch tribes | ||
Qainuqa | قينقاع | Medina | pre-islamic time | jewish tribe |
Qasi | قاسي | Spain | 8th to 10th centuries | |
Qudāʿa | قضاعة | Tribal association of Kalb, Juhaina, Balī, Bahrāʾ, Chaulān, Mahra, Chushain, Jarm, ʿUdhra, Balqain, Tanūch and Salīh | ||
Quraish | قريش | Medina | pre-islamic time | |
Quraiza | قريظة | Medina | pre-islamic time | jewish tribe |
Rashaida | رشايدة | Eritrea | ||
Sabeans | سبئيون | Yemen | extinct | |
Sakhr | صخر | Jordan | ||
Shammar | شمّر | northern and central Iraq, Syria, parts of Saudi Arabia | ||
Shuʿaitat | شعيطات | Eastern Syria in the province of Deir ez-Zor | ||
Sulaym | سليم | Hejaz | Time of Muhammad | |
Thamūd | ثمود | extinct; mentioned in the Koran |