( awlād al-kanz ), a clan descended from Rabīʿa tribesmen who migrated to the region of Aswān in the 3rd/9th century, intermarried with Bed̲j̲a [ q.v.], and ultimately gained control of the gold-mines of al-ʿAllāḳī [ q.v.]. The eponym of the clan, whose personal name was Abu ʾl-Makārim Hibat Allāh, received in 397/1007 from the Fāṭimid caliph al-Ḥākim [ q.v.] the honorific of Kanz al-Dawla for his services in capturing the rebel Abū Rakwa. The title continued to be borne by his successors. As marcher-chiefs of the frontier of Islam ¶ with the Bed̲j̲a and Nubians, the Banu ʾl-Kanz wer…

, usually called Balḥārit̲h̲, an Arab tribe belonging to the Yemenī group. Their genealogy is: al-Ḥārit̲h̲ b. Kaʿb b. ʿAmr b. ʿUlā b. Ḏj̲ald b. Mad̲h̲ḥid̲j̲ (Mālik). They lived in the district of Nad̲j̲rān [ q.v.] and were neighbours of the Hamdān. The following places amongst others belonged to them: al-ʿArs̲h̲, al-ʿĀd̲h̲, Baṭn al-D̲h̲uhāb, D̲h̲u ’l-Marrūt, al-Furuṭ (pl. Afrāt, between Nad̲j̲rān and the D̲j̲awf), Ḥadūra (K̲h̲adūrā), ʿIyāna, al-K̲h̲aṣāṣa (between Ḥid̲j̲āz and Tihāma), Ḳurrā, Saḥbal, Ṣamʿar, Sūḥān or Sawḥān, Mīnān…

[see ag̲h̲labids ].

[see ag̲h̲labids ].

[see ag̲h̲labids ].

, the first “manifested” ( ẓāhir ) Ismāʿīli Imām and the first caliph of the Fāṭimid dynasty in Ifrīḳiya; while the historicity of this fact is conclusively established, there is doubt as to the Fāṭimid origin of ʿUbayd Allāh and subsequently as to the authenticity of his imāmate in the Ismāʿīli line. It would be pointless however, before giving an account of his activity as a sovereign, to digress upon the thorny subject of the nasab of the first Fāṭimid monarch, to which the author of the present article has, moreover, elsewhere devoted substantial consideration (see Bibl …

b. al-Ag̲h̲lab b. Sālim b. ʿIḳāl (184-96/800-12), founder of the Ifrīḳiyan dynasty of the Ag̲h̲labids, was a Tamīmī of the clan of the Saʿd b. Zayd Manāt. This clan, as a result of the Muslim conquests, had settled at a very early date in K̲h̲urāsān, where they were enemies especially of the Muhallabids, whom Ibrāhīm was later to encounter again in Egypt and then in Ifrīḳiya. It was thus that al-Ag̲h̲lab, the eponymous ancestor of the Ag̲h̲labids, was born at Marw al-Rūd̲h̲. He …

[see razīn, banū ].

[see rasūl , banū ].

, Banū [see hūdids ].

[see faḍlawayh, banū ; s̲h̲abānkāra ]

[see nad̲j̲āḥ, banū ].

[see al-sarrād̲j̲ , banū ].

[see ṣadaḳa , banū ].

, Banū [see zurayʿids ].

, banū [see ibn mākūlā ].

[see d̲j̲ahīr , Banū].

[see g̲h̲āniya , banū ].

[see mirdās, banū ].

[see simd̲j̲ūr , banū ].