Basus War

A camel in Arabia

The Basus (or Basous) War (often written al-Basus War; Arabic: حرب البسوس‎ ḥarb al-basūs) was a conflict for 40 years between two rival clans in medieval Arabia which started by killing a camel which was owned by a woman called albasous.[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]

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References

  1. ↑ Kamal Suleiman Salibi (1980). A history of Årabia. p. 68.
  2. ↑ The Detailed History of Arabs Prior to Islam by Jawad Ali, Baghdad University 1993


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