 The decades of fighting which led to the destruction of the most of the Arabian kingdoms and chiefdoms (reflected in "Ayyam al-'Arab" tradition) led to the elaboration of some definite "antiroyal" freedom-loving tribal ethos.At the beginning of the 7th century a tribe which would recognise themselves as subjects of some terrestrial supratribal political authority, a "king", risked to lose its honour.However, this seems not to be applicable to the authority of another type, the "celestial" one.