Banu Uqayl (Arabic: بنو عُـقَـيـْل) are an ancient Arab tribe that played an important role in the history of Eastern Arabia and Iraq. They belonged to...

in al-Yamama. Banu Ka'b – this section was the largest of the Bani 'Amir, and was divided into four tribes: Banu Uqayl, Banu Ja'dah, Banu Qushayr, and...

Banu Uqayl in 651 AH (1253 AD). The Usfurids were an Arab dynasty that gained control of eastern Arabia in 1253. They were a branch of the Banu Uqayl...

Seljuq Empire in the year 1077–1078 CE. It then fell to the Usfurids of Banu Uqayl in 651 AH (1253 CE). The famous poet Ali bin al Mugrab Al Uyuni is a Uyunid...

whether they belonged to the Banu Uqayl—the tribe of their predecessors the Usfurids and their successors the Jabrids—or to the Banu Abdul Qays, to whom the...

Most of the tribe traces its genealogy to the tribe of Banu 'Uqayl of the large and ancient Banu 'Amir confederation of Najd. However, the tribe's traditional...

while others believe they are identical with the Jubur section of the Banu Uqayl confederation, who took control of the region before the Jabrids by around...

Conflicts inside the Uyunid family gave the chance to the Bedouin Usfurids of Banu Uqayl to establish their state and destroy the Uyunid State. Thereby gaining...

the latter faction. Allied with the local Bedouin tribes of the Banu Kilab and Banu Uqayl, as well as with the Persian Gulf merchants, Abu Sa'id was able...

arrival of more Bedouin tribes from the Arabian Peninsula, such as Banu Hilal, Banu Sulaym, and Maqil. The last significant wave of Arab migration to the...

Over the centuries, residents of the oasis have included the Banu Abdul Qays, the Banu Uqayl, and the Bani Khalid. Oil production and agriculture are the...

which later separated from the Sulaym, entered into the protection of the Banu Uqayl and became known as the Bajila after their mother. The other branch of...

progenitors of the large tribes of Banu Uqayl and Banu Ja'da. The mother of Qushayr was Rayta bint Kunfudh ibn Malik of the Banu Sulaym. In the pre-Islamic period...

could trace their genealogy to the Banū ʿAlqama, Banū Ayyūb, Banū Buqayla (Azd), Banū Kaʿb, Banū ʿUqayl and even the Banū Marīna, the same branch as the Lakhmid...

from Hijaz, a Jewish poet writing in Arabic Layla al-Akhyaliyya, early Banu Uqayl tribe female poet Al-Rabi ibn Abu al-Huqayq fl. in Arabia just before...

Mu'awiya I, brought numerous Qaysi tribesmen from the Banu Kilab, Banu Uqayl (both sub-tribes of the Banu Amir) and the Sulaym to inhabit Upper Mesopotamia...

The Usfurids (Arabic: آل عصفور, romanized: Al ʿUṣfūr) were an Arab dynasty that in 1253 gained control of Eastern Arabia, including the islands of Bahrain...

governor of Jund al-Urdunn in 1062. Ibn Mulhim belonged to the Arab tribe of Banu Uqayl. The tribe made its own home in the Syrian steppe, from Hawran in the...

and Jordan . Ibn Khafaja Shihab al-Din al-Khafaji Khafajah Khafajiyeh Banu Uqayl Encyclopaedic Ethnography of Middle-East and Central Asia-edited by R...

in Mosul, ruled from 990 to 1096. The Uqaylids were descended from the Banu Uqayl and were Shi'a. They first came to power in Diyar Bakr when they were...

The Banu Kaʿb (Arabic: بنو كعب) are a nomadic Arab tribe which originated in the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula, and inhabit Saudi Arabia, Iraq,...

branches of the Banu Amir from Arabia, including the Banu Kilab, Banu Khafaja, Banu Uqayl and Banu Qushayr. These Bedouin groups largely uprooted the pre-established...

nevertheless managed to gain the backing not only of the Kilab, but also of the Banu Uqayl, who became the core of his military forces. The Bedouin tribes were,...

Nasr ibn Shabath al-Uqayli (fl. 811–825) was the leader of a rebellion of the Qays tribe in the Jazira against the central Abbasid government during the...

tribe; other prominent tribes such as the Shia Banu Qushayr and Sunni Banu Uqayl branches of the Banu Ka'b and the Shammar clan with its Sunni Al-Jarba...

Ishaq ibn Muslim ibn Rabi'a ibn Asim al-Uqayli was a general and governor for the Umayyad Caliphate in the region of Arminiya (Transcaucasia), and a close...

opposed by Ibn al-Jarrah, lest the Hamdanid and his followers from the Banu Uqayl tribe, rivals to the Tayy, threaten his own position, particularly his...

Upon the death of his elder brother in 996 Ali assumed leadership of the Banu Uqayl, the tribe which his family belonged to, however he was prevented from...

first twenty years of his rule, he fought the Banu Uqayl and temporarily captured Daquq and also fought Banu Mazyad around Khanaqin. In 1006, Badr ibn Hasanwayh...

Gospel translated from Syriac into Arabic by Arab Christians from the Banu Uqayl, Tanukh, and Tayy tribes. The emir had initially demanded that mentions...