al-Azd

by Webb, Peter

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Al-Azd was one of the largest lineage groups in pre-modern Arabia. It was counted amongst the Yamāniyya (southern Arab tribes) and genealogists traced its sub-tribes to Oman and to the ʿAsīr and Ḥijāz regions of southwest Arabia. Given the vast geographical spread of al-Azd’s constituent groups, some argue it was a creation of the early Islamic state: a military (not genealogical) designation assigned to disparate groups after they settled in the Muslim garrison towns ( amṣār; Crone, 30–1; Blan…

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Al-Azd was one of the largest lineage groups in pre-modern Arabia. It was counted amongst the Yamāniyya (southern Arab tribes) and genealogists traced its sub-tribes to Oman and to the ʿAsīr and Ḥijāz regions of southwest Arabia. Given the vast geographical spread of al-Azd’s constituent groups, some argue it was a creation of the early Islamic state: a military (not genealogical) designation assigned to disparate groups after they settled in the Muslim garrison towns ( amṣār; Crone, 30–1; Blankinship, 44). Epigraphic evidence suggests that the

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei407

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eng Islam

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Webb, Peter

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