The Azd (), or Al-Azd (), is an ancient Arabian tribe originating from Southern Arabia. The lands of Azd occupied an area west of Bisha and Al Bahah in what is today Saudi Arabia.
Key facts
- Tribe.name
- Al-Azd
- Tribe.type
- Qahtanite Arab Tribe
- Tribe.ethnicity
- Arab
- Tribe.nisba
- Al-Azdī ()
- Tribe.location
- South Arabia, Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia and the Middle East
- Tribe.religion
- Paganism, Christianity, later Islam
- Tribe.image
- Azd Flag (11).png
- Tribe.image_size
- 150px
- Tribe.caption
- Banner of the Azd from the Battle of Siffin
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17 sectionsContents
- Land of Azd
- Pre-Islamic Arabia
- Eve of Islam
- Yemeni Folklore
- Anthropological and Genetic Background
- Branches
- Imran Bin Amr
- Jafna bin Amr
- Thalabah bin Amr
- Haritha bin Amr
- Zahran
- Azd 'Uman
- Influential people or branches
- See also
- References
- Sources used
- Further reading
The Azd (), or Al-Azd (), is an ancient Arabian tribe originating from Southern Arabia. The lands of Azd occupied an area west of Bisha and Al Bahah in what is today Saudi Arabia.
==Land of Azd== ===Pre-Islamic Arabia=== thumb|300x300px|Traces of a Pre-Islamic Arabia|pre-Islamic building built during the [[Basus War, Wadi Khaytan, Al Bahah (4-5th centuries)]] Pre-Islamic inscriptions, specifically Sabaic inscriptions from '''Sha'r Awtar's''' reign (210-230 CE), indicate that the land of Azd extended west of Bīsha, in the south-western heights of Saudi Arabia, stretching between the regions of al-Bāḥa and ʿAsīr.