Huwaytat

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The Huwaytat (Arabic: الحويطات 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 governorate in Egypt, the Negev in Israel, and northwestern Saudi Arabia. The Huwaytat comprise of several branches, notably the Ibn Jazi, the Abu Tayi, the Anjaddat, and the Sulaymanniyin, in addition to a number of associated tribes.

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