بنو هلال

بنو هلال

Banu Hilal ibn Amir ibn Sa'sa'a, among the greatest Arab divisions in Islam; Najd-dwellers who moved into Egypt in the Qarmatian wars, then were let west by the vizier al-Yazuri under the Fatimid al-Mustansir to war al-Mu'izz ibn Badis — they seized Ifriqiya's countryside and ruined it, then, pressed by Banu Sulaym, moved into the Maghreb between Bona and Constantine to the Ocean; Hilal's five sons — Shu'ba, Nashira, Nuhayk, Abd Manaf and Abdallah — father all their clans, of whom the Athbaj, Riyah, Zughba and Qari'.