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Banu Bakr بنو بكر | |
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Rabi'aite Arab tribe | |
Location | Ancient Arabia |
Descended from | Bakr bin Wael bin Qasit bin Hinb bin Afsa bin Du'mi bin Jadila bin Asad bin Rabi'a bin Nizar |
Parent tribe | Rabi'a ibn Nizar |
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Religion | Islam |
The Banu Bakr bin Wa'il (Arabic: بنو بكر بن وائل Banū Bakr ibn Wā'il), or simply Banu Bakr, today known as Bani Bakr is an Arabian tribe belonging to the large Rabi'ah, a branch of Adnanite tribe. The tribe is reputed to have engaged in a 40-year war before Islam with its cousins from Taghlib, known as the War of Basous. The pre-Islamic poet Tarafah was a Bakry.
The Banu Bakr tribe along with their cousins Taghlib are under the name Anezah. Most of them today live in Arabia in Najd, north Hejaz, north of the Arabian peninsula and a small amount across the rest of the Middle East