In this article, I will explore how Arabs, in a later period, revived the history/legend of the victory of Banū Shaybān over the Persian army in the pre-Islamic battle of Dhū-Qār in order to incite national Arab sentiments against a non-Arab enemy. The book Ḥarb Banī Shaybān maʻa Kisrá Ānūshirwān, The war of Banī Shaybān against Kisrá Ānūshirwān retells the story of Ānūshirwān, the Persian king, who presented an offer of marriage to al-Nuʻmān, the Arabic king, for the hand of his daughter. al-Nuʻmān refused Ānūshirwān’s request, believing that marrying his daughter to a Persian would be a dishonor on his family and the Arab. The book was rewritten again during the 18th and 19th centuries. The copies used by al-Mashhadānī, a modern Iraqi scholar, to edit the book Ḥarb Banī Shaybān maʻa Kisrá Ānūshirwān (Baghdad, 1988) are archived at the Iraqi Museum and al-Qādirīyah Library in Iraq. The first and second manuscripts were written in 1797 and 1799, shortly after the siege of al-Baṣrah in Iraq, which lasted from 1775 to 1779, by the Persian army, which was under the rule of the Iranian Zand Dynasty (1750–1794). Due to the situation, Ḥarb Banī Shaybān maʻa Kisrá Ānūshirwān might have been reproduced in order to reflect the siege. In the Arabic fuṣḥá, poetry exists that directly addresses this victory over the Persian/Zandi army. I argue that the battle of Dhū-Qār works allegorically in later periods to incite Arabs against their opponents, especially Persians. The victory of Banū Shaybān in protecting their identity has been used as a source of inspiration for Arab in later periods. In the second part of this article, I analyze the poetic usage of the battle motif in later periods using the Speech Act Theory and Paul Connerton’s Understanding of Myth Concordance.