Tags: Ethnic Group.
According to Islamic tradition the Adnanites are Arabized Arabs descended from Adnan. They were from the northern central and western Arabia as opposed to the Qahtanites of southern and south eastern Arabia who were of pure Arabic stock. According to modern historians the traditional distinction between Adnanites and Qahtanites lacks evidence and may have developed out of the later faction-fighting during the Umayyad period.
