List of Arab tribes
This list of Arab tribes includes tribes with an Arab tradition.
| Tribe (Banu, Bani, Beni) | بنو / بني | region | time | comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |