Hazim ibn Ali ibn Mufarrij ibn Daghfal ibn al-Jarrah al-Ta'i () (

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: ''Ḥǎzim ibn ʿAlī ibn Mufarrij ibn Daghfal ibn al-Jarrāh at-Ṭaʾī'') was a chieftain of the

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, a

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clan of the Banu Tayy tribe that intermittently controlled

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, Balqa and northern

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in the late 10th and early 11th century. The dynasty remained influential in the northern

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in later centuries. Hazim was the son of Ali ibn Mufarrij, and grandson of Mufarrij ibn Daghfal, a former governor of Palestine under the

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. There is scant information about Hazim in medieval sources. Hazim participated in the Alid attempt to capture

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from the Fatimid army of Badr al-Jamali in 1065/66. The Alids, led by the

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, Ibn Abi'l Jann, were defeated, and Hazim and his cousin Humayd ibn Mahmud were captured by the Fatimids and imprisoned in

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. They were released in 1066/67 upon the intercession of the Fatimid general, Nasir al-Dawla ibn Hamdan, with the Fatimid caliph, al-Mustansir. Hazim had at least two sons, Badr and Rabi'ah. The latter was the ancestor of the Banu Rabi'ah, a minor line of the Jarrahids that spawned the

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dynasty, which came to dominate the Bedouin of the

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until the 18th century.

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