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Waththab ibn Sabiq

r. c. 990–1040 · 11th century

Waththab ibn Sabiq al-Numayri was the founder of the Numayrid emirate of the Banu Numayr tribe in the Diyar Mudar region of Upper Mesopotamia. As Hamdanid power faded he seized Harran around 990, and his tribe went on to hold Saruj, Raqqa and for a time Edessa.

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