(Medina). The Ghassanids fought alongside the Byzantine Empire against the Persian Sasanians and Arab Lakhmids. The lands of the Ghassanids also continually...
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Salihids (section Fall to the Ghassanids)
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...
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Jafnah ibn Amr (category Ghassanids)
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...
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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...
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Battle of Mu'tah (category Battles involving the Ghassanids)
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...
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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...
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Ghassanid vassals. In Islamic historical sources, the battle is usually described as the Muslims' attempt to take retribution against the Ghassanids after...
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Azd Mazin (Al Ansar & Ghassanids) inhabited two different regions, where the Ansaris settled in Medina, Hejaz, while the Ghassanids settled in the far north...
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South Arabian influence, notably with the Ghassanids migrating north from the 3rd century. The Ghassanids revived the Semitic presence in the then Hellenized...
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cities, with Nabateans and pre-Islamic Arabs such as the Lakhmids and Ghassanids dwelling in the deserts of southern Syria. Syriac Christianity had taken...
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Jabala ibn al-Ayham (category 7th-century Ghassanid kings)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Amr ibn Jafnah (category Ghassanids)
treacherously against the Ghassanids. Towards the end of the reign of 'Amr, the Romans made a reconciliation with the Ghassanids and signed an agreement...
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Jabiyah (category Ghassanids)
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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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Al-Harith ibn Jabalah (category 6th-century Ghassanid kings)
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...
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external support from other Arabian tribes, which was successful with the Ghassanids. The Khazraj were unable to gain external support, so the whole group...
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Middle Eastern empires (section 330 CE - 632 CE: the Eastern Roman Empire, the Ghassanids, the Sassanids, and the Lakhmids)
The Ghassanids were Arab Christians that were established in Hauran, southern Syria. The term Ghassan refers to the kingdom of the Ghassanids, and supposedly...
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Jabalah IV ibn al-Harith (category 6th-century Ghassanid kings)
Kindaites and Ghassanids, turning them into imperial allies (foederati). With the outbreak of the Anastasian War against Sassanid Persia, the Ghassanids fought...
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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...
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Battle of Callinicum (category Battles involving the Ghassanids)
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...
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Al-Mundhir III ibn al-Harith (category 6th-century Ghassanid kings)
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...
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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...
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Diplomatic career of Muhammad (section The Ghassanids)
The diplomatic career of Muhammad (c. 570 – 8 June 632) encompasses Muhammad's leadership over the growing Muslim community (Ummah) in early Arabia and...
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that the Ma'ad tribe possessed the coast of western Arabia between the Ghassanids and the Himyarites of the south supports the Arabic sources tradition...
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both empires. However, confederations of Arab Christians, including the Ghassanids, initially allied themselves with the Byzantines. There were also instances...
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Karak Governorate, the Byzantines and their Arab Christian clients, the Ghassanids, staved off an attack by a Muslim Rashidun force that marched northwards...
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