Fadl ibn Rabi'ah

Abu Imran Fadl ibn Rabi'a was an Arab emir in Syria in the early 12th century. Most of what is known of him centers on his military activities in circa 1107. He was the ancestor of the Al Fadl dynasty, which ruled the Bedouin tribes of the Syrian Desert and steppe between the 12th and 18th centuries.

Biography Genealogy of the Banu Tayy tribe of Syria. The Al Fadl branch of the tribe is depicted by the blue line

Fadl was a son of Rabi'a ibn Hazim, a great-grandson of Mufarrij ibn Daghfal, the Jarrahid ruler of Palestine in the late 10th and early 11th centuries. But later Fadl quarreled with the Burid ruler of Damascus, Toghtekin, who expelled him from Syria in 1107/08. whose emirs and descendants ruled the Bedouin of the Syrian Desert and steppe on behalf of the Ayyubids, Mamluks, Later, part of Fadl's descendants became known as Al Abu Risha, The other part of Al Fadl migrated to the Golan Heights and Beqaa Valley, where they eventually abandoned their nomadic way of life and adopted farming, and have continued to go by the name of Al Fadl. They were displaced from the Golan Heights after the Israeli occupation in the 1967 Six-Day War and have since lived in the vicinity of Damascus.