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The Lakhmids were Christian Arabs of the Sasanian Empire that were centered in Hira, Iraq. It is a pre-Islamic bedouin society that helped Sasanian Iran not fall under rule of the Byzantine Empire. Despite being Christian, they were allied with Muslims in this struggle against the Byzantine Empire.
See Encyclopedia Britannica for more information and notes from class.
Posted at Mar 10/2011 07:54PM:
ian: Location? Relationship to the Ghassanids? How might they have impacted the new forms of settlement of the Muslims -- think of the new amsar of Basra and Kufa that were not far from their former city of Hira.