Qays

Arab Muslim polymath (c. 1105–1185)

conflict between the early Muslims and Bedouins (630 AD)

Qays ʿAylān (), often referred to simply as Qays (Kais or Ḳays) were an Arab tribal confederation that branched from the Mudar group. The tribe may not have functioned as a unit in pre-Islamic Arabia (before 630). However, by the early Umayyad Caliphate (661-750), its constituent tribes consolidated into one of the main tribal political factions of the caliphate.

one of the early battles of the Second Fitna, fought on 18 August 684

governor of al-Andalus in 728

Tribal rivalry in the Arabia