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Banu Shayban

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56: 236: 177:. Already from pre-Islamic times, the tribe was "celebrated ... for the remarkable quality of its poets, its use of a very pure form of Arabic language and its fighting ardour" (Th. Bianquis), a reputation its members retained into the Islamic period, when histories remark both on their own skills as, and on their patronage of, poets. 413:
The Shayban as a whole are not frequently mentioned in the later centuries, as opposed to its many sub-tribes or splinter groups originating from it. Some Shayban are mentioned in later times in southern Iraq as poets, grammarians and philologists, chief among them the Shaybani
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of Iraq, and again in northern Syria in the late 10th and 11th centuries, after which "the tribe of Shayban as such is less often mentioned, and it is difficult to follow the subsequent fortunes of this highly-fragmented group"
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region in Turkey are tracing their tribal origins back to this tribe. Some families are even claiming descendant from the famous
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played a leading role in the conquest of Iraq. For the most part the Shayban remained active, as in pre-Islamic times, mainly in
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are organized loose and they do not have a Sheikh as a head of their tribe, like it is common in Arab countries.
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The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the 6th to the 11th Century
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in 893. After his death in 898, al-Mu'tadid seized the last possession of the family,
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with success as general, even subduing a Kharijite revolt by his kin
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These prefixes ignored in the alphabetical ordering: Al, Bani, Banu.
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that ruled in Shirvan as autonomous and later independent emirs (
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and his immediate successors, the Shayban were allies of the
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Shayban ibn Tha'labah ibn Akaba ibn Saab ibn Ali ibn
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Harlow: Longman. 200:, but especially in the district of 421:Abu Amr Ishaq ibn Mirar al-Shaybani 374:exploited the chaos following the " 115: 451:line. However the Banu Shayban of 25: 251:) during the early Islamic period 144:wandered according to the seasons 520:Ter-Ghevondyan (1976), pp. 27–28 502:Ter-Ghevondyan (1976), pp. 26–27 239:Al-Jazira and its subdivisions ( 142:, the Shayban with their flocks 54: 337:. He was succeeded by his sons 301:Yazid ibn Mazyad served Caliph 1354:History of Diyarbakır Province 307:al-Walid ibn Tarif al-Shaybani 273:al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Shaybani 146:, wintering in Jadiyya in the 1: 449:Isa ibn al-Shaykh al-Shaybani 406:, and imprisoned Ahmad's son 364:Isa ibn al-Shaykh al-Shaybani 154:for the summer, ranging from 493:Bianquis (1997), pp. 391–392 296:Ahmad ibn Mazyad al-Shaybani 292:Yazid ibn Mazyad al-Shaybani 261:Shabib ibn Yazid al-Shaybani 529:Kennedy (2004), pp. 181–182 284:Ma'n ibn Za'ida al-Shaybani 1375: 1344:Medieval Upper Mesopotamia 370:in the 860s–880s. His son 29: 1311: 716: 709: 298:, occupied high offices. 190:Muslim conquest of Persia 53: 46: 366:, governor in Syria and 30:Not to be confused with 194:al-Muthanna ibn Haritha 252: 162:and the shores of the 60:Banner of Banu Shayban 453:Southeastern Anatolia 238: 100:Paganism, later Islam 642:Ter-Ghewondyan, Aram 511:Crone (1980), p. 169 267:in the 690s against 71:Al-Shaybani الشيباني 1267:Sa'd ibn Zayd Manat 269:al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf 180:During the time of 872:Bakr ibn Abd Manat 392:Ishaq ibn Kundajiq 376:Anarchy at Samarra 253: 140:pre-Islamic period 128:al-Jazira Province 122:, a branch of the 1321: 1320: 656:Livraria Bertrand 633:978-0-582-40525-7 585:978-90-04-10422-8 543:Bianquis, Thierry 388:Hamdan ibn Hamdun 280:Abbasid Caliphate 265:Najdat Kharijites 257:Umayyad Caliphate 206:Armenian Highland 160:Lower Mesopotamia 156:Upper Mesopotamia 104: 103: 16:(Redirected from 1366: 1339:Tribes of Arabia 695: 688: 681: 672: 667: 652:Nina G. Garsoïan 650:. 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Index

Shayban (tribe)
Shaybanids
Adnanites

Nisba
Jazira
Bakr ibn Wa'il
Arabic
Arab tribe
Banu Bakr
al-Jazira Province
pre-Islamic period
wandered according to the seasons
Najd
Euphrates
Upper Mesopotamia
Lower Mesopotamia
Persian Gulf
Taghlib
Banu Tamim
Muhammad
Banu Hashim
Muslim conquest of Persia
al-Muthanna ibn Haritha
Mesopotamia
Diyar Bakr
Armenian Highland
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Syria

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