Bariq

This article is about Arab tribal group. For places in Saudi, see Bareq.
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Banu Bariq
Total population
100,000[1] to 50,000.[2]
Regions with significant populations
Bareq, kufa[3]
Languages
Arabic
Religion
Islam

Bariq (also transliterated as Barik or Bareq, Arabic: بارق) is a tribe from Bareq in south-west Saudi Arabia.[4][5] It belongs to the ancient Al-Azd tribe which has many clans linked to it.[6][7] As far as ancestry goes, Aws, Khazraj, Ghassān and Banu Khuza'a, and others all belong to Al-Azd.[8] They were one of the tribes of Arabia during Muhammad's era.[9][10][11]

This tribe consists of four divisions: Al-Humaydah, Al-Musa ibn 'Ali, Al-Isba' and Al-Jibali. Their homes are located 15 miles north of Mahayil. They stretch 20 miles north and south and 30 miles east and west, and are bounded by "Banu Shihr" to the east, "Khath'm" and "Balqarn" to the north,[12][13] "Al-Raysh" and "Al-Durayb" to the south and "Rabi'at al-Maqatirah" to the west. Most of them live in the villages scattered across this region.[14]

  1. ^ Arabian Studies, Volume 6 page 82.
  2. ^ Bariqi, Aḥmad ibn Marīf. Qabā'il Bāriq al-mu'āṣirah min al-'aṣr al-Jāhilī ilá al-'aṣr al-ḥadīth.
  3. ^ The Waning of the Umayyad Caliphate ،
  4. ^ Encyclopaedic Ethnography of Middle-East and Central Asia: P-Z,،
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  8. ^ Constructing Al-Azd: Tribal Identity and Society in the Early Islamic Centuries،
  9. ^ A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád'/Introduction/31،
  10. ^ Kitab al-tabaqat al-kabir page 339،
  11. ^ The Life of Muḥammad page 473،
  12. ^ The Encyclopaedia of Islam: p812،
  13. ^ Encycl. Ethnography Of Middle-East And Central Asia (3 Vols. Set): p66،
  14. ^ Scoville, S. A. (1979). Gazetteer of Arabia : a geographical and tribal history of the Arabian Peninsula. Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt. OCLC 10452422.