Dresch, Paul

Bakīl is the name of a large group of tribes in northern Yemen. Before Islam, the leading family of the Bakīl became subordinate to a dynasty from Ḥāshid named Hamdān. In the early Islamic period these names were included in schemes of genealogy. The geographer and genealogist o…

Ḥāshid is the name of a set of tribes in northern Yemen. In genealogies from the Islamic period, Ḥāshid and Bakīl appear as brothers descended from Hamdān b. Zayd, and Hamdān had been the name of the leading Ḥāshid family before Islam. The fourth/tenth-century account of the geo…