Bajila
| Bajila بجيلة | |
|---|---|
| Qahtanite | |
Banner of Bajila at the Battle of Siffin (657) | |
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Nisba | Al-Bajali |
| Location | Mecca Iraq (after 634) |
| Religion | Arabian polytheism, later Islam |
The Bajīla (Arabic: بجيلة) was an Arab tribe that inhabited the mountains south of Mecca in the pre-Islamic era and later dispersed to different parts of Arabia and then Iraq under the Muslims. The tribe, under one of its chieftains Jarir ibn Abd Allah, played a major role in the Muslim army that conquered Iraq in the mid-7th century.