Azd

Al-Azd
ٱلْأَزْد
Qahtanite Arab Tribe
Banner of the Azd from the Battle of Siffin
EthnicityArabian
NisbaAl-Azdī (ٱلْأَزْدي)
LocationSouth Arabia, Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia and the Middle East
ReligionPaganism, Christianity,[1] later Islam

The Azd (Arabic: أَزْد), or Al-Azd (Arabic: ٱلْأَزْد), is an ancient Arabian tribe. The lands of Azd occupied an area west of Bisha and Al Bahah in what is today Saudi Arabia.

  1. ^ bury, john (January 1958). History of the Later Roman Empire from the Death of Theodosius I. to the Death of Justinian, Part 2. courier dover publications. ISBN 9780486203997.