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Jabala ibn al-Ayham
Jabala ibn al-Ayham was the last king of the Ghassanids, the Christian Arab allies of the Byzantine Empire on the Syrian frontier. He led Ghassanid forces for Byzantium against the Rashidun Caliphate, including at the Battle of the Yarmuk in 636. According to Arab tradition he briefly converted to Islam but then renounced it and withdrew with his followers into Byzantine Anatolia, where he died.
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