Banu Lakhm is a large Arab

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 tribe

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 tracing their lineage back
to Qahtan, who among many achievements, created an
Arab kingdom in Al-Hira, near modern Kufa

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, Iraq

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. This kingdom acted as a
buffer zone between Arabia and the Persian Empire, preventing Bedouin

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Arab tribes from infiltrating Persian lands.

See more information in the Al-Hira page.

Lineage

The Banu Lakhm, or Lakhmids, are descendents from Malik (Malichus) bin Uday bin Al-Harith
(Aretas) bin Murr bin Add bin Zayed bin Yashjub bin Oreb bin Zayed bin
Kahlan bin Saba' (Sheba) bin Qahtan (Joktan), a Qahtanite

Qahtanite

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 Yemeni Arab tribe.

Famous Lakhmid families, emirates and persons

Besides the lakhmid Kingdom Of Hira and its kings, there are other notable Lakhmids:

• Musa Bin Nusair, the Ummayad general and administrator of Andalus
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• Imam Abdul-Rahman bin Amr bin Abdullah bin Safwan Al-nasri (Abu Zar'a al dimashqi)
• Banu Ubad, the lords of Ishbelia and Bani Bahr.
• The Naa'mna family in Jordan
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  , Israel, the West Bank And Egypt
• The Abbadid
  Abbadid
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   family in Al-Andalus
  Al-Andalus
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• Gamal Abdel Nasser
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   was from Bani Mur, from Bnu Lakhm.

Most Druze

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 in Jabal al-duruz in Lebanon claim descent from Lakhm. Perhaps the most famous among them is the Lebanese historian and writer Emir Shakib Arslan

Shakib Arslan

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. Lakhmids also exist in great numbers in Iraq

Iraq

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, Yemen

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, and Oman

Oman

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.