Liḥyān is the name of an Arabian tribe known from Dadanitic inscriptions at the oasis of Dadan (biblical Dedān, modern al-ʿUlā), from Aramaic inscriptions at Taymāʾ, and from Sabaic inscriptions in Yemen, dated to the mid-first millennium B.C.E. The tribe is also mentioned in some Safaitic graffiti of the early centuries C.E. and by historians from the early Islamic period. Some members of the Banū Liḥyān are said to live near Mecca today. It is, however, only an assumption that these sources all refer to