Banu Yashkur

Banu Yashkur
بني يشكر
Adnanite Arabs
Banner of Banu Yashkur
EthnicityArab
NisbaAl-Yashkuri (اليشكري)
LocationNajd, al-Yamama (in present-day Saudi Arabia)
Descended fromYashkur ibn Bakr ibn Wa'il
ReligionPagan and Christianity, later Islam

The Banu Yashkur (Arabic: بنو يشكر) is an Arab tribe belonging to the larger Banu Bakr ibn Wa'il tribe. The tribe is originally from Al-Yamama and had control over this region in the pre-Islamic period.

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