The Kindites (Arabic: بنو كندة) were an important pre-Islamic Arab tribe (or rather clan) that in the 3rd century CE headed a kingdom with the capital in Qaryah dhat Kahl (the present-day Qaryat al-Faw) in Central Arabia. This kingdom was a vassal of the Himyarite Empire of Yemen. The conversion of the Himyarite kings to Judaism in the late 4th century CE led to the conversion to Judaism of the Kindites (though the transition of the power in Yemen to Christian kings in the early 6th century appears to have undermined the Kindite Judaism in the most significant way). In the 520s the Kindite kingdom split into several small "kingdoms" that were subsequently destroyed in the 530s and 540s in a series of uprisings of the Arab tribes against the Kindite kings. The most famous Kindite seems to be Imru' al-Qais who was not only a son of one of the last Kindite kings (who unsuccessfully tried to resurrect his father's kingdom), but also the most prominant pre-Islamic Arab poet. The Arabic language (Arabic: ‎ transliterated: ), or simply Arabic (Arabic: ‎ transliterated: ), is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... Islam (Arabic: ; ( â–¶ (help· info)), the submission to God) is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions and the worlds second-largest religion. ... The Arabs (Arabic: عرب ) are an ethnic group found throughout the Middle East and North Africa. ... A tribe, viewed historically or developmentally, consists of a social group existing before the development of, or outside of, states, though some modern theorists hold that contemporary tribes can only be understood in terms of their relationship to states. ... A clan is a group of people united by kinship and descent, which is defined by perceived descent from a common ancestor. ... Himyar was a state in ancient South Arabia dating from 110 BC. It conquered neighbouring Saba in 25 BC, Qataban in AD 50 and Hadramaut AD 100. ... This article describes the Jewish religion; for a consideration of ethnic, historic, and cultural aspects of the Jewish identity refer to the article Jew. ... Ameru al-Qays, or Imruu al Quais, Ibn Hujr, was an Arabian poet of the 6th century, the author of one of the Muallaqat, an anthology of pre-Islamic Arabic literature. ...

References

• Robin, Christian : Le royaume hujride, dit "Royaume de Kinda", entre Himyar et Byzance. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, fasc. II, 1993, 665-714.
• Gajda, Iwona : Hugr b. ‛Amr roi de Kinda et l’établissement de la domination Himyarite en Arabie centrale. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 26, 1996, 65-73.