Huwaytat
| Huwaytat الحويطات | |
|---|---|
| Hashemite Arab tribe | |
Sheikh Auda Abu Tayi and men of his tribe with a group of officers of the Arab Army in 1916. | |
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Nisba | al-Huwayti |
| Location | Hejaz, southern Jordan, The Negev, Sinai, Sharqia |
| Descended from | 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 |
| Parent tribe | al-Jammazah of the Sharif Banu al-Husayn of the Banu Hashim of the Quraysh |
| Language | Arabic (Northwest Arabian dialect) |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
1838 map of the Red Sea region; the Howeitat are marked with a red arrow in the north section, to the east of the Gulf of Aqaba.
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 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.