Al-Nuʿmān ibn al-Mundhir ( ar, النعمان بن المنذر), known in

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sources as Naamanes () was a king of the Ghassanids, a Christian Arab tribe allied to the

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. The eldest son of

al-Mundhir III ibn al-Harith Al-Mundhir ibn al-Ḥārith (), known in Greek language, Greek sources as (Flavios) Alamoundaros (), was the king of the Ghassanids, Ghassanid Arabs from 569 to circa 581. A son of al-Harith ibn Jabalah, he succeeded his father both in the kingshi ...

, he rose in revolt with his tribe after his father was treacherously arrested by the Byzantines in 581. After two years of revolt, seeking to reconcile himself with the Empire, he visited the new emperor,

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(r. 582–602), at

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. Refusing to renounce his Monophysite faith, he was arrested and exiled to

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, where his father had been banned earlier. This event marked the end of the Ghassanid control over the Byzantines' Arab '' foederati'' and the fragmentation of this strong

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against invasions from the desert.

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