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Banu Yam are a large tribe native to
Najran Province in
Saudi Arabia, and are the principal tribe of that area. They belong to the
Qahtanite branch of
Arabian tribes, specifically the group known as
Hamadan, and are therefore native to southwestern
Arabia.
There traditional way of life was well suited to life in the
Arabian Desert and East
Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands they once lived in. Most have now moved in to small villages and given up there once
nomadic way of life. The
tribe of Yam was also the progenitor of two other important tribes: the
Al Murrah and the
'Ujman of eastern
Saudi Arabia and the
Persian Gulf coast.
The Yam are notable among the tribes of Saudi Arabia for the vast majority of its members traditionally follow the small
Isma'ili branch of
Shi'ite Islam. Religious leadership is currently in the hands of the
Makrami clan, who joined Yam through alliance some time in the
17th century. Members of the tribe can be found throughout
Saudi Arabia due to
immigration, particularly the areas around
Jeddah and
Dammam. Unlike some other tribes of southwestern
Saudi Arabia, Yam have traditionally had a large
bedouin section, due to the proximity of their territories to the formidable desert known as the
Empty Quarter.
They are also unlike some of their neighboring tribes in that they're recorded to have repeatedly raided the neighboring region of
Najd, reaching as far north as
Dhruma near
Riyadh during the time of the
First Saudi State in
1775, and causing much panic.
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