Al-Harith ibn Jabalah

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Al-Harith ibn Jabalah (Arabic: الحارث بن جبلة) was a king of the Ghassanids, a pre-Islamic Arab people who lived on the eastern frontier of the Byzantine Empire. He reigned from 529 to 569.

Al-Harith supported the Byzantines against Sassanid Persia and was given the title patricius in 529 by Emperor Justinian I.

Al-Harith's adhered to Miaphysitism and rejected the Council of Chalcedon, that had condemned Monophysitism. Al-Harith supported opponents of the Council and in the region and thereby contributed to the development of the Syriac Orthodox Church.

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