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Antarah ibn Shaddad
Arabian warrior and poet
Al-Nabigha
Al-Nābighah (), al-Nābighah al-Dhubiyānī, or Nābighah al-Dhubyānī; real name Ziyad ibn Muawiyah (); was one of the last pre-Islamic Arabian poets. "Al-Nabigha" means genius or intelligent in Arabic.
Ahmad al-Qalqashandi
'''Shihāb al-Dīn Abū 'l-Abbās Aḥmad ibn ‘Alī ibn Aḥmad ‘Abd Allāh al-Fazārī al-Shāfiʿī better known by the epithet al-Qalqashandī' (; 1355 or 1356 – 1418), was a medieval Arab Egyptian encyclopedist, polymath and mathematician. A native of the Nile Delta, he became a Scribe of the Scroll (Katib al-Darj), or clerk of the Mamluk chancery in Cairo, Egypt. His magnum opus is the voluminous administrative encyclopedia Ṣubḥ al-Aʿshá''.
Muslim ibn Uqba
Umayyad Caliphate general (died 683)
Banu Ghatafan
thumb|303x303px|Map of the Arabian Peninsula in 600 AD, showing the various Arab tribes and their areas of settlement. The Lakhmids (yellow) formed an Arab monarchy as clients of the [[Sasanian Empire, while the Ghassanids (red) formed an Arab monarchy as clients of the Roman Empire A map published by the British academic Harold Dixon during World War I, showing the presence of the Arab tribes in West Asia, 1914]] The Ghaṭafān () were an Arab tribal confederation originally based northeast of Medina. The main branches of the Ghatafan were the tribes of Banu Abs, Banu Dhubyan and Ashja'. They w
Samra ibn Jundab
Sahabah
Yazid ibn Umar al-Fazari
Umayyad provincial governor and military leader (died 750)
Mutayr
Mutayr () is an Arab Bedouin Sunni Muslim tribe with origins in the northern Hejaz near Medina, A large Arab tribe in the middle of the Arabian Peninsula, whose homes extend from the Hijaz to Najd and then to southern Iraq and Kuwait. The tribe also had a historical presence in the desert regions of southern Iraq, being a notable Sunni Arab tribe in the Shia-majority south although some branches migrated north to West Iraq. The settlement of Tall Mutayr in Nineveh is named after the tribe.
Umar ibn Hubayra
8th C. Umayyad general and governor of Iraq
Qurra ibn Sharik al-Absi
Umayyad governor of Egypt from 709 to 715
Banu Murra
Arabian tribe
Nuaym ibn Masud
Sahabah
Banu Fazara
arab tribe from Najd, Saudi Arabia
Banu Abs
ancient Arabian Tribe
Al-Mughirah ibn Ubaydallah al-Fazari
umayyad Governor of Egypt 749 CE
Zuhayr ibn Jadhima
Mid-6th century chieftain of the Banu Abs
Thumama ibn al-Walid
8th century Abbasid Arab Military leader
Abd Allah ibn Mas'ada al-Fazari
Banu Dhubyan
arabian tribe