Kendah

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The Kendites (Arabic: بنو كندة‎) were an important pre-Islamic Arab tribe (or rather clan) that in the 3rd century CE headed the Kendah kingdom with the capital in Qaryah dhat Kahl (the present-day Qaryat al-Faw) in Central Arabia. This kingdom was a vassal of the Himyarite Empire of Yemen. In the 520s the Kendite kingdom split into several small "kingdoms" that were subsequently destroyed in the 530s and 540s in a series of uprisings of the Arab tribes against the Kendite kings. The most famous Kendite seems to be Imru' al-Qais who was not only a son of one of the last Kendite kings (who unsuccessfully tried to resurrect his father's kingdom), but also the most prominent pre-Islamic Arab poet.

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