Arab tribes

History, branches, and homelands of Arab tribes.

• ʿĀmila

  A Qaḥṭānī tribe held close to Lakhm and Judhām, recorded in the southern Levant — and one of the names the genealogists report as a mother's rather than a fathe

• ʿAns

  A tribe of Madhḥij in Yemen, written with a sīn and not to be confused with ʿAnz or ʿAnizah. A historical tribe, with no living family attributed to it here.

• ʿAnz

  An early Rabīʿa tribe, distinguished in the sources from the later ʿAnizah despite the similar name.

• ʿIjl

  A Bakr ibn Wāʾil tribe reckoned a brother line to Ḥanīfa, recorded moving from eastern Arabia into the Iraqi countryside and beyond it.

• ʿIlwā

  A division reported under Muṭayr in Najd and al-Qaṣīm. A historical section recorded here by name: the classical works this reference cites do not document it.

• ʿUbaydah (of the Maʾrib country)

  A group reported in the country about Maʾrib and the desert edge east of it. Not the section of similar name reported under Qaḥṭān in ʿAsīr and southern Najd: t

• ʿUdhra

  A Quḍāʿī tribe of the country north of Medina, reckoned to Saʿd Hudhaym, and the tribe whose name the classical love poetry took.

• ʿUkl

  A group of the Ribāb reported to carry the name of the woman who reared them rather than the name of their father.