Banu Khuza'ah

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Banū Khuzāʿah بنو خزاعة
Qahtanite Arabs
Banner of Banu Khuzaʽa at the Battle of Siffin
Ethnicity	Arab
Nisba	Al-Khuzaʽi
Location	Mecca, Arab world
Descended from	Amr ibn Luḥay al-Khuzāʽī
Religion	Islam

The Banū Khuzāʿa (Arabic: بنو خزاعة, singular خزاعيّ Khuzāʿī) is the name of an Azdite, Qaḥṭānite tribe, which is one of the main ancestral tribes of Arabia. They ruled Mecca for 400 years before the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and many members of the tribe now live in and around that city.^[1] Others are also present in significant numbers in other countries, mainly Iraq, Palestine, and Jordan, but also can be found across the Middle East.

The Banū Khuzāʿa acted as the custodians of Mecca before the Quraysh. They were the ruling kings of the emirate of Lower Mesopotamia (now southern Iraq) until the invasion of the Ottoman Empire in the late 1800s, and were the rulers of the kingdom of the Middle Euphrates until the early 20th century.^[2]