Basus War
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The Basus (or Basous) War (often written al-Basus War; Template:Lang-ar ḥarb al-basūs) was a conflict for 40 years between two cousin tribes in Arabia of Late Antiquity which started by the killing a camel owned by a woman named "al-Basus".[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
- ^ 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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