(Medina). The Ghassanids fought alongside the Byzantine Empire against the Persian Sasanians and Arab Lakhmids. The lands of the Ghassanids also continually...

Kindites and Ghassanids of Arabia toward the end of the 5th century, all led to the Salihids' weakened status by 502, when the Ghassanids formally became...

son, 'Amr, became a Christian, and from there began the status of the Ghassanids as a Christian tribe and ruling dynasty. The reign of Jafnah ibn 'Amr...

king of the Ghassanids Al-Harith ibn Jabalah (died c. 569), king of the Ghassanids Jabalah ibn al-Aiham (died c. 645), king of the Ghassanids Jabalah, Syrian...

traditions. The Ghassanids, Lakhmids and Kindites were the last major migration of pre-Islamic Arabs out of Yemen to the north. The Ghassanids increased the...

to attack and punish the tribes for the murder of his emissary by the Ghassanids. The army was led by Zayd ibn Harithah; the second-in-command was Ja'far...

South Arabian influence, notably with the Ghassanids migrating north from the 3rd century. The Ghassanids revived the Semitic presence in the then Hellenized...

Ghassanid vassals. In Islamic historical sources, the battle is usually described as the Muslims' attempt to take retribution against the Ghassanids after...

Azd Mazin (Al Ansar & Ghassanids) inhabited two different regions, where the Ansaris settled in Medina, Hejaz, while the Ghassanids settled in the far north...

during the siege of Dumat al-Jandal in c. 630, where he commands the Ghassanids and Tanukhid tribes against the Muslims, at the Battle of Yarmouk in 636...

cities, with Nabateans and pre-Islamic Arabs such as the Lakhmids and Ghassanids dwelling in the deserts of southern Syria. Syriac Christianity had taken...

descendants of Muzayqiya, from each of his sons, include: From Jafnah – The Ghassanids From Tha'laba – The Aws and Khazraj tribes From Haritha – The Banu Khuza'ah...

Al-Mundhir III succeeds his father Al-Harith V and becomes king of the Ghassanids. The Nubian kingdom of Alodia is converted to Christianity by Byzantine...

plain and the Golan Heights. It initially served as the capital of the Ghassanids, an Arab vassal kingdom of the Byzantine Empire. Following the Muslim...

Justinian I. The vassals are the Kingdom of Lazica and the Abasgians (top), and the Ghassanids (east). This was the Byzantine Empire at its greatest extent....

treacherously against the Ghassanids. Towards the end of the reign of 'Amr, the Romans made a reconciliation with the Ghassanids and signed an agreement...

most of his time at the Lakhmid court of al-Hirah and the court of the Ghassanids. In al-Hirah, he remained under al-Mundhir III ibn al-Harith, and then...

external support from other Arabian tribes, which was successful with the Ghassanids. The Khazraj were unable to gain external support, so the whole group...

Constantinople but never faced trial. His arrest provoked an uprising among the Ghassanids under Mundhir's son al-Nu'man VI. When Maurice ascended the throne in...

king of the Ghassanids, a pre-Islamic Arab Christian tribe who lived on the eastern frontier of the Byzantine Empire. The fifth Ghassanid ruler of that...

cavalry under Al-Mundhir forming the Sasanian left wing, opposing the Ghassanids, while his own cavalry formed the center and right flank. It is possible...

The Ghassanids were Arab Christians that were established in Hauran, southern Syria. The term Ghassan refers to the kingdom of the Ghassanids, and supposedly...

Sassanid Persians, and the perennial tribal warfare between them and the Ghassanids was combined with the larger rivalry between Byzantium and Persia, with...

succeeded by the Ghassanids at the beginning of the 6th century, Wadi Sirhan became dominated by the latter's allies, the Banu Kalb. The Ghassanids were charged...

Kindaites and Ghassanids, turning them into imperial allies (foederati). With the outbreak of the Anastasian War against Sassanid Persia, the Ghassanids fought...

expansion of his Islamic realm to the north, with a campaign against the Ghassanids and the Byzantine Empire. Muhammad died on 8 June 632. The period following...

Their Ghassanid counterparts served the same purpose for the Byzantines after their settlement in Syria likely between 250 and 300 CE. The Ghassanids were...

both empires. However, confederations of Arab Christians, including the Ghassanids, initially allied themselves with the Byzantines. There were also instances...

Flag of the Tanukhid Confederation (196 AD–c. 1100 AD) Banner of the Ghassanid Kingdom (220–638) Flag under Arab administration (1918–1920) Flag of the...

The diplomatic career of Muhammad (c. 570 – 8 June 632) encompasses Muhammad's leadership over the growing Muslim community (Ummah) in early Arabia and...