Arab tribes

History, branches, and homelands of Arab tribes.

• Ajman

  An Arab tribe of eastern Arabia and Najd.

• Al Murrah

  An Arab tribe of the Empty Quarter and eastern Arabia, famed for its desert knowledge.

• Al-Dawasir

  An Arab tribal confederation historically associated with southern Najd (the Wadi al-Dawasir region).

• Anizah

  A large and widely-dispersed Arab tribe historically associated with northern and central Arabia.

• Bali

  An ancient Arab tribe of the northwestern Hijaz, attested in the classical genealogies.

• Bani Khalid

  An Arab tribe of eastern Arabia, historically dominant in the al-Ahsa oasis region.

• Bani Tamim

  One of the largest and most storied Arab tribes of the classical genealogical tradition, long associated with Najd.

• Bani Yas

  The tribal confederation of the Abu Dhabi region, historically based between the Liwa oasis and the coast.

• Ghamid

  An Arab tribe historically associated with the highlands of southwestern Arabia (the Sarawat / al-Bahah region).

• Hamdan

  One of the great tribal confederations of Yemen, anciently attested, with its homeland in the northern highlands around Sanaa.

• Harb

  A large Arab tribe historically associated with the Hijaz in western Arabia, with many branches.

• Hashid

  One of the two famous branches of the Hamdan confederation in the northern highlands of Yemen.

• Juhaynah

  An ancient Arab tribe of the Hijaz, attested from pre-Islamic times and proverbial in classical Arabic.

• Kinda

  An ancient Yemeni tribe famous for its pre-Islamic kings in central Arabia and for the poet Imru' al-Qays.

• Madhhij

  A great and ancient Yemeni tribal confederation, recorded at length by the classical genealogists.

• Mutayr

  A large Arabian tribe historically associated with Najd and the northeast of the peninsula.

• Qahtan

  In the classical Arab genealogical tradition, Qahtan is one of the two great ancestral divisions of the Arabs (the Qahtanite or 'southern' Arabs), alongside Adn

• Shammar

  A large and historically prominent Arabian tribe centered on the Ha'il region of northern Najd, with a wide range.

• Subay'

  An Arab tribe long associated with central Najd.

• Thaqif

  A classical Arab tribe of Taif in the Hijaz highlands, prominent from pre-Islamic times.

• Utaybah

  A large Arabian tribe historically associated with the highlands and plateaus between the Hijaz and Najd.

• Utub

  An Arab group whose twelfth-century AH migrations to Kuwait and Bahrain are a fixture of Gulf history.

• Yam

  An Arab tribe of the Najran region in southwestern Arabia.

• Zahran

  An Arab tribe historically associated with the highlands of southwestern Arabia, neighboring Ghamid.