A camel in Arabia
The Basus (or Basous) War (often written al-Basus War; Arabic language: حرب البسوس ḥarb al-basūs) was a conflict for 40 years between two rival clans in medieval Arabia because of a dispute over a camel.[1] The Taghlib and Bakr tribes fought for roughly forty years (from 494-534 CE), locked in a perpetual cycle of vengeance. In parts of the Arab World today, the Basus War has been incorporated into an aphorism warning people against vendettas.[2]
See also[]
- Al-Zeir Salim
References[]
- ↑ Kamal Suleiman Salibi (1980). A history of Årabia. p. 68.
- ↑ The Detailed History of Arabs Prior to Islam by Jawad Ali, Baghdad University 1993
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