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	‘Alayān al-Ḥuwayṭ ibn Jamāz ibn Hāshim ibn Sālim ibn Mahnā ibn Dāwūd ibn Mahnā ibn Jamāz ibn al-Qāsim ibn Mahnā al-A‘raj ibn Ḥusayn ibn Mahnā ibn Dāwūd ibn Aḥmad al-Qāsim ibn ‘Ubaydillāh al-Amīr ibn Ṭāhir Shaykh al-Ḥijāz ibn Yaḥyā al-Nassābah ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī Muḥammad Ja‘far al-Ḥujjah ibn ‘Ubaydillāh al-A‘raj ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Aṣghar ibn al-Imām ‘Alī Zayn al-‘Ābidīn ibn al-Imām al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Imām ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
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 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.