Kilab

The Banu Kilab were a Bedouin branch of the Banu Amir, whose homeland lay in western Najd. Their pastures at Dariyya lay near al-Yamama, and some clans remained in Arabia after other Kilab migrated to Syria.

In Syria, Salih ibn Mirdas founded an emirate at Aleppo in 1025, and his dynasty held the city until 1080. In 1277 the Syrian Kilab submitted to the Mamluk sultan Baybars.