The southern branch of the Banu Rabi'a, who in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century drove their Al Fadl cousins out of the Hauran (Tritton).
In Mamluk times they dominate the southern Syrian tribes from the Jawlan southward; for 1200 their range can only be placed on the desert edge of the Hauran, the Harra and the Azraq basin, between the farmland of Bosra and Salkhad and the open desert.
Who holds it
- Title
- Amir of Al Mira
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not pinned
- Family
- Banu Rabi'a of Tayy, descendants of Mira son of Rabi'a.
- Confidence
- low
Al Fadl article (Hiyari, Tritton).
Overlord
The lord of Damascus claims them.
What it holds
- Grazing on the eastern and southern margins of the Hauran and the Azraq basin.
How things stand that morning
Present; no leader named. The armies of 1199 camped on the Hauran road at Ra's al-Ma'.
Customs
Kin-ruled pastoralists; grazing on the Hauran margins, dealings with the villages and the pilgrim road.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Dated only loosely (late twelfth or early thirteenth century).
On the map: Very rough; the Jawlan, which they hold later, is left to Damascus for 1200.
Primary sources for The Bedouin
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- History of the Observant Traveller (A Traveller in Thirteenth-Century Arabia), Ibn al-Mujawir (Jamal al-Din Yusuf ibn Ya'qub) (about 1226 to 1232). A merchant-traveller's description of western and southern Arabia a generation after 1200: Mecca and the Hijaz ports, the Red Sea crossing, Zabid and the Tihama, Aden with its customs and tariffs, the Hadramawt coast, Dhofar and Oman, Socotra, and the opposite African shore at Zeila and the Dahlak islands. Read online
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.