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Large tribe native to Najran Province
Yam حاشد
Hamdanite Qahtanite
Ethnicity
Arab
Location
Primarily Najran, other parts of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain
Parent tribe
Banu Hashid
Branches
Banu Murra
Banu Ajam
Language
Arabic (Southern Najdi)[1]
Religion
Islam
Banu Yam (Arabic: بنو يام, Banū Yām) is an Arabian tribe that belongs to the Qahtanite branch of Arabian tribes, specifically the group known as Banu Hamdan, and are, therefore, native to southwestern Arabia.
Their traditional way of life was well suited[according to whom?] to life in the Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands they once lived in. Most have moved into small villages and given up their previous nomadic way of life.[citation needed] The tribe of Yam was also the progenitor of two other important tribes: the Al Murrah and the 'Ujman of eastern Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf coast.
The Yam are notable among the tribes of Saudi Arabia for the majority of its members who follow the small Sulaymani Isma'ili branch of Shi'ite Islam. Religious leadership is currently in the hands of the al-Makrami clan, who joined Yam through alliance some time in the 17th century. Most Yam in Najran are Isma’ili while the Al-Ajman and Al Murrah branches who can be found in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain are Sunni. Members of the tribe can be found throughout Saudi Arabia due to migration, particularly the areas around Jeddah and Dammam. Unlike some other tribes of southwestern Saudi Arabia, Yam have traditionally had a large bedouin section, due to the proximity of their territories to the formidable desert known as the Empty Quarter.[2]
They are also different from some of their neighboring tribes in that they are recorded to have repeatedly raided the neighboring region of Najd, reaching as far north as Dhruma near Riyadh during the time of the First Saudi State in 1775, and causing much panic.[3]
The Yam's home province of Najran.
^Ingham, Bruce (1994). Najdi Arabic : central Arabian. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins Pub. Co. p. 5. ISBN 9789027238016.
^Daftary, Farhad (3 March 1998). A Short History of the Ismailis: Traditions of a Muslim Community. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748606870. Retrieved 3 March 2022 – via Google Books.
^Madawi al-Rasheed. "A HISTORY OF SAUDI ARABIA" (PDF). Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
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