Bahila

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Bahila
باهلة
Adnanites
Banner of the Bahila at the Battle of Siffin
EthnicityArab
NisbaAl-Bahili
LocationBefore 7th century:
Arabian Peninsula
After 7th century:
Syria
Iraq
Khorasan
Descended fromBahila, wife of Malik ibn A'sur
ReligionPaganism, later Islam

Bāhila (

al-Asma'i and the general Qutayba ibn Muslim
both belonged to the tribe. The Bahila were last mentioned in the 10th century.

Genealogy

According to W. Caskel, the genealogy of the Bahila "is somewhat complicated".[1] The namesake of the tribe, Bahila, was a wife of Malik ibn A'sur ibn Sa'd ibn Qays, and after the latter's death, was married to Malik's brother Ma'n.[1] Bahila mothered one son from Malik and two sons from Ma'n, and was also the foster mother of ten other sons of Ma'n (the foster sons came from two other mothers).[1] Caskel describes this genealogy as a series of "artifices", which were familiar to the Arab genealogists, though the "accumulation" of such artifices with the origins of the Bahila was "remarkable".[1] Among the sons of Bahila who later fathered large clans were Qutayba, Wa'il, Ji'awa and Awd.[2] The Qutayba and Wa'il were the largest sub-tribes of the Bahila and both were engaged in a rivalry for supremacy over the Bahila.[1]

History

Map of Bata'ih region (in orange) of the lower Euphrates

The Bahila's original homeland was called Sūd Bāhila or Sawād Bāhila.

Banu 'Amir.[1] There is scant reference to the Bahila in the pre-Islamic period.[1] Among these references were the slaying of a warrior from the tribe named al-Muntashir, and a battle involving the tribe. Both episodes occurred shortly before the emergence of Islam in Arabia in the 610s.[1]

According to Caskel, "The history of the [Bahila] tribe becomes clear for the first time under Islam."

Banu Numayr, a sub-tribe of the Banu 'Amir.[3] The Bahila migrants entered the lower Euphrates region, first in the vicinity of al-Hufayr near Basra and from there into the sandy al-Taff tract on the southern border of the Bata'ih marshes.[3] After 837, these Bahila tribesmen settled in the Bata'ih itself, where in 871 they were attacked by Abbasid troops on their way to suppress the Zanj Rebellion.[3] Consequently, the Bahila allied with the Zanj.[3] Afterward nothing is heard of the Bahila.[3]

Members

Caskel writes that the "Bahila developed an abundance of talents of all kinds".

philologist.[3]

Yusuf al-Bahili was the sculptor or owner of the so-called Elephant of Charlemagne chess piece.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Caskel 1960, p. 920.
  2. ^ a b c Ibn Abd Rabbih, ed. Boullata 2011, p. 260.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Caskel 1960, p. 921.
  4. ^ Caskel 1960, pp. 920–921.
  5. ^ Dunlop 1960, p. 921.
  6. ^ Flood 2011, p. 377.

Bibliography

  • Caskel, W. (1960). "Bahila". In
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  • Dunlop, D. M. (1960). "Al-Bahili, Abd ar-Rahman b. Rabi'a". In
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  • Flood, Finbarr Barry (2011). "Conflict and Cosmopolitanism in 'Arab' Sind". In Rebecca M. Brown; Deborah S. A. Hutton (eds.). A Companion to Asian Art and Architectur (PDF). Blackwell. pp. 365–397.
  • Ibn 'Abd Rabbih (2011). Boullata, Emeritus Issa J. (ed.). The Unique Necklace, Volume III. Reading: Garnet Publishing Limited & Southern Court. pp. 294–295.
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