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al-Mundhir III

Lakhmid king of al-Ḥīrah

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conflict with the Kindah

In Kindah
…of the Lakhmid king al-Mundhir III. About 529, however, al-Mundhir regained the city and killed al-Ḥārith, together with about 50 other members of the royal family—a devastating blow to Kindah power.
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expansion of Lakhmid kingdom

In Lakhmid dynasty
…in the 6th century, when al-Mundhir III (503–554) raided Byzantine Syria and challenged the pro-Byzantine Arab kingdom of Ghassān. His son ʿAmr ibn Hind (554–569) was patron of the pre-Islamic Arabic poetry of Ṭarafah and others associated with Al-Muʿallaqāt (“The Suspended Odes”).
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