Fadl ibn Rabi'ah

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Fadl ibn Rabi'ah
BornAbū Imrān Fadl ibn Rābi'ah
Mecca
DiedSyria
Burial
Damascus

Abu Imran Fadl ibn Rabi'ah

Arab emir in Syria in the early 12th century. Most of what is known of him centers on his military activities in circa 1107. He was the ancestor of the Al Fadl
dynasty, which ruled the Bedouin tribes of the Syrian desert and steppe between the 12th and 18th centuries.

Biography

Banu Tayy tribe of Syria. The Al Fadl
branch of the tribe is depicted by the blue line

Fadl was a son of Rabi'ah ibn Hazim, a great-grandson of

Banu Tayy tribe. His father Rabi'ah was aligned with Seljuks.[3] But later Fadl quarreled with the Burid ruler of Damascus, Toghtekin, who expelled him from Syria in 1107/08.[1][3]
Afterward, he sought refuge with and formed a pact with Sadaqa,
Mazyadid ruler of Hillah south of Baghdad.[3]

When Sadaqa challenged the Seljuk sultan in Baghdad, Fadl at first fought alongside him in the vanguard, but then defected to the Seljuks.[1] Upon his arrival in Baghdad, he and his tribesmen were rewarded and given lodging at Sadaqa's former Baghdad residence.[1] Fadl sought to cut off Sadaqa's desert route toward Syria and asked permission to pursue his strategy.[1] The Seljuks gave Fadl their blessing, but once he crossed the Euphrates river in Anbar, nothing is known of his fate.[1][3]

Legacy

Fadl was the father of a certain Ghudayya,

Anaza tribesmen from Najd in the 18th century.[6] The other part of Al Fadl migrated to the Golan Heights and Beqaa Valley,[7] where they eventually abandoned their nomadic way of life and adopted farming, and have continued to go by the name of Al Fadl. They were displaced from the Golan Heights after the Israeli occupation in the 1967 Six-Day War and have since lived in the vicinity of Damascus.[8]

Notes

  1. ^ Full name and genealogy: Abu Imran Faḍl ibn Rabīʿa ibn Ḥaẓim ibn ʿAlī ibn Mufarrij ibn Daghfal ibn al-Jarrāh at-Ṭaʾī[1][2]

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  7. ^ Chatty, Dawn. "Land, Leaders and Limousines: Political and Moral Authority". Oxford University. p. 392. Retrieved 2016-05-08.
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