Bani Hilal
Bani Hilal (also Banu Hilal) is an Arab tribal confederation known from medieval migrations and the epic oral tradition (the Sirat Bani Hilal). It is not an individual author but a collective/tribal name associated with Arabic epic literature.
Books
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1. The Epic Of The Bani Hilal
A sweeping oral epic that follows the migration of a Bedouin tribe from the Arabian Peninsula into North Africa, tracing generations of heroic leaders, fierce battles, raids, romances and betrayals as they carve out new lands and identities; told in poetic episodes and folkloric digressions, it preserves tribal values of honor, loyalty, hospitality and vengeance while dramatizing the hardships of desert travel, the rise and fall of rival chiefs, and the supernatural and moral tests that shape the tribe’s destiny.