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military strength solely from the Arab tribes. Nonetheless,
individual Qaysi tribes remained a
potent force and some
migrated to
North Africa and al-Andalus...
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throughout the
Syria (the Levant)
since the pre-Islamic period,
while the
Qaysi tribes,
namely the Sulaym, Banu Amir and
Ghatafan migrated to
northern Syria...
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reconstitute the
Umayyad army. With this army he
struggled against rebel Qaysi tribes in the
Jazira before advancing against the
Alids and
Zubayrids of...
- al-Ashdaq, the
following year, and
reincorporated into the army the
rebellious Qaysi tribes of the
Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia) in 691. He then
conquered Zubayrid...
-
erupted in 797,
though it is not
clear if this was
directly related to the
Qaysi-Yamani conflict. In the 8th century,
Palestine and
Transjordan were functioning...
- Umayyads,
expelling the
Umayyad governor of Qinnasrin, and
dispatching Qaysi troops to back the pro-Zubayrid
governor of Damascus, al-Dahhak ibn Qays...
- when the
Zubayrids took over Kufa. Meanwhile, the
blood feud
between the
Qaysi and
Yamani tribal elements of the
Umayyad Caliphate intensified due to Umayr's...
-
Qaysi, Umar al-Zaydani, as the
subsidiary tax
farmer of Safad. He also
secured the
allegiance of the Shia
Muslim Munkir and Sa'b
clans to the
Qaysi faction...
-
Allah bin
Muhammad bin
Qasim bin
Hilal bin
Yazid bin 'Imran al-'Absi al-
Qaysi (Arabic: عبدالله القيسي) was an
early Muslim jurist and theologian. Born...
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occurred in the
village of Ain Dara, in
Mount Lebanon in 1711,
between the
Qaysi and Yamani, two
rival tribo-political factions. The Qays were led by Emir...
