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The Quraysh (Arabic: قُرَيْشٍ, romanized: Qurayš) are an Arab tribe that inhabited and used to control Mecca and the Kaaba. Comprising ten main clans, it includes the Hashim clan into which the Islamic prophet Muhammad was born.
The Quraysh are descendants of Ismail, who, according to tradition, married into a local Arab tribe, giving rise to his descendants who would eventually form the Quraysh tribe. The Quraysh emerged as a distinct and influential tribe in Makkah several centuries later. Around the 5th century CE, Qusayy ibn Kilab, a Quraysh leader, unified the ...
Banu Hashim (Arabic: بنو هاشم, romanized: Banū Hāshim) is an Arab clan within the Quraysh tribe to which the Islamic prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah belonged, named after Muhammad's great-grandfather Hashim ibn Abd Manaf.
A family tree depicting the descendants of the Banu Adnan. The Hawazin tribe and the Quraysh tribe are considered ‘Adnani Arabs. Much of the lineage provided before Ma'ad relies on biblical genealogy, so questions persist concerning the accuracy of this segment of Adnanite Arab genealogy. [13]
ʿAbd Shams ibn ʿAbd Manāf (Arabic: عبد شمس بن عبد مناف) was a prominent member of the Quraysh tribe of Mecca in modern-day Saudi Arabia.The Banu Abd Shams sub-clan of the Quraish tribe and their descendants take its name from him.
Tribe Quraysh Abd Manaf al-Mughirah ibn Qusai ( Arabic : عبد مناف ٱلمغيرة بن قصي , ʿAbd Manāf al-Mughīrah ibn Quṣayy ) was a Qurayshi and great-great-grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad .
Banu Umayya (Arabic: بَنُو أُمَيَّةَ, Nisba: al-Umawī) was a clan of the larger Quraysh tribe, which dominated Mecca in the pre-Islamic era. [4] The Quraysh derived prestige among the Arab tribes through their protection and maintenance of the Kaʿba , which at the time was regarded by the largely polytheistic Arabs across the ...
Bani Shaiba gatekeeper, c.1880 Key to the Ka'ba at the time of Sultan Barquq of Egypt. The Bani Shaiba (Arabic: بني شيبه, lit. ' the sons of Shaiba ') are an Arab clan belonging to the Banu Abd al-Dar sub-clan, that are part of the larger erstwhile Quraysh tribal confederation in the Hejaz region of modern Saudi Arabia.