What the records say
- When
- 494 – 534
- Kind
- War
- Coordinates
- 24.29° N, 43.59° E
- Description
- tribal war in 5th and 6th-century Arabia
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Basus War
Tribal war in 5th and 6th-century Arabia
The Basus War is a famous conflict narrative from the corpus of the ayyām al-ʿarab, traditionally dated to late pre-Islamic Arabia and showcasing the rivalry of the tribes of Taghlib and Bakr. In Arabic historical and literary tradition, it is portrayed as a forty-year tribal war triggered by the killing of a camel belonging to a woman named Basus.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA · Read the article