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Sign in to saveThe Huwaytat ( al-Ḥuwayṭāt, Northwest Arabian dialect: ál-Ḥwēṭāt) are a large Hashemite Ashraf tribe descending from Husayn ibn Ali that inhabits areas of present-day southern Jordan, the Sinai Peninsula and Sharqia governate in Egypt, the Negev in Israel, and northwestern Saudi Arabia. The Huwaytat have several branches, notably the Ibn Jazi, the Abu Tayi, the Anjaddat, and the Sulaymanniyin, in addition to a number of associated tribes.
Key facts
- Tribe.name
- Huwaytat
- Tribe.type
- Hashemite Arab tribe
- Tribe.parent_tribe
- al-Jammazah of the Sharif Banu al-Husayn of the Banu Hashim of the Quraysh
- Tribe.caption
- Sheikh Auda Abu Tayi and men of his tribe with a group of officers of the Arab Army in 1916.
- Tribe.image
- BevIOLsCcAAJVhx.jpg
- Tribe.image_size
- 270
- Tribe.ethnicity
- Arab
- Tribe.location
- Hejaz, southern Jordan, The Negev, Sinai, Sharqia
- Tribe.language
- Arabic (Northwest Arabian dialect)
- Tribe.religion
- Sunni Islam
- Tribe.descended
- Alayan al-Huwayt ibn Jamaaz ibn Hashim ibn Salim ibn Mahna ibn Dawood ibn Mahna ibn Jamaaz ibn al-Qasim ibn Mahna al-Araj ibn Husayn ibn Mahna ibn Dawood ibn Ahmad al-Qasim ibn Ubaydullah al-Amir ibn Tahir Sheikh al-Hijaz ibn Yahya al-Nesabah ibn al-Hasan Abu Muhammad Ja’far al-Hujjah ibn Ubaidullah al-A’raj ibn al-Husayn al-Asghar ibn Imam Ali Zain al-Abidin ibn Imam Al-Hussein ibn Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib
- Tribe.nisba
- al-Huwayti
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The Huwaytat ( al-Ḥuwayṭāt, Northwest Arabian dialect: ál-Ḥwēṭāt) are a large Hashemite Ashraf tribe descending from Husayn ibn Ali that inhabits areas of present-day southern Jordan, the Sinai Peninsula and Sharqia governate in Egypt, the Negev in Israel, and northwestern Saudi Arabia. The Huwaytat have several branches, notably the Ibn Jazi, the Abu Tayi, the Anjaddat, and the Sulaymanniyin, in addition to a number of associated tribes.
==Genealogy and origin== The ancestor of the Huwaytat, Alayan al-Jammazi al-Husayni al-Hashimi, had arrived in the Syrian desert from Medina accompanied with other members of the ashraf social class in the city. He had fallen sick while upon this journey and had to stop travelling, he was taken in by the chief of the Ma'azah tribe in al-Aqaba, Atiyyah. Here Alayan had become settled, him being the only learned and literate person in the vicinity of the tribe meant that he would be able to unfold fraudulent activities and deceit done by the people of the area, thus they called him al-Huwayt, literally meaning the little wall as he kept unravelling their schemes. This name would be then taken up by his descendants.