The ancient tribe of Kinda, whose homeland was western Hadramawt, among whose branches the old genealogies count a Banu Mu'awiya; the Banu Mu'awiya who turned against Abd Allah ibn Rashid are probably that clan (not pinned).
The western valleys (Wadi Daw'an with al-Hajarayn, Wadi Amd, Wadi al-Ayn) have their own villages and holy families: the Amudi shaykhs of Qaydun in Wadi Daw'an appear with Sa'id ibn Isa al-Amudi, who made a pact of peace with the Ba Alawi later in the century. No lord of these valleys is named for 1200.
Who holds it
- Name
- Not known for 1199-1200
- Title
- Shaykhs of the Kinda clans
- Since
- Not known
- Confidence
- low
What it holds
- The valleys of Daw'an, Amd and al-Ayn and the plateau between them (approximate)
- The wadi towns west of Shibam (al-Qatn, Hawra): not pinned
Allies and rivals
The Banu Mu'awiya against the Al Rashid by turns.
How things stand that morning
Self-governing clans and villages.
Threats
- Rashidid expansion
Where the sources disagree
- Kinda is named for Hadramawt mostly in early Islamic sources; its clans' places in 1200 are not pinned.
Evidence: Tribal names in the chronicles; no chiefs for 1200.
On the map: A rough block for the western valleys; tribal boundaries are not recorded.
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
- 'Rasidiler' (the Al Rashid of Hadramawt), TDV Islam Ansiklopedisi (after al-Shatiri, Adwar al-tarikh al-Hadrami; Salih al-Hamid, Tarikh Hadramawt; Ibn Awad, Jawahir tarikh al-Ahqaf; Yahya ibn al-Husayn, Ghayat al-amani; G. R. Smith, 'Hadramawt', EI2 Suppl.)
- 'Hadramut', TDV Islam Ansiklopedisi
- 'al-Faqih al-Muqaddam' (Muhammad ibn Ali Ba Alawi), Arabic Wikipedia
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.