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The Tribes of Syria in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

A. S. Teitton
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It is astonishing how soon the Arabs fade out of Muslim history, Arabia itself excepted. There are notable instances to the contrary like the Hamdanids and the Banū Hilāl, but they are few. During the rule of the Fatimids in Egypt the Banū Jarrah of Tai' were the most important of the bedouins in Syria; their chief Mufarrij b. Daghfal b. Jarrāh died in 404/1013 and his son Hassān succeeded him. Contemporary with Hassān was Fadl b. Rabi'a b. Hāzin b. Jarrāh, who was, perhaps, as Ibn Khaldūn suggested and Ibn Hajar affirmed, the ancestor of the Āl Fadl: This Fadl was at times an ally of the Franks and at times an ally of thesultan of Egypt. He was banished and joined Sadaqa b. Mazyad and in 500/1106 was the ally of Sadaqa against the Saljūq sultan Muhammad b. Malikshāh; later he abandoned Sadaqa.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 12 , Issue 3-4 , October 1948 , pp. 567 - 573
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1948

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page 567 note 1 From Him? to Qal'at Ja'bar, Rahba, the basin of the Euphrates, and the borders of Iraq

page 568 note 1 The name is ′Isa b. Muhanna, which must be a mistake; there is DO evidence that this Muhanna had a son ′Isa.

page 569 note 1 He is sometimes called Mu'taqil, but Mu'aiqil seems to be right; cf. Mu'aibid, Munaifiq, Mughaizil.

page 570 note 1 Ahmad was born 684/1284.

page 571 note 1 Ibn Khaldun says, Muhammad b. Muhanna; but as Muhanna had died sixty years earlier, this is not likely.

page 571 note 2 Zambaur leaves a lacuna in the list of governors between 806 and 811; Jakam will fill at least part of the gap.

page 571 note 3 The second half of this remark is repeated at the death of 'Ijl