Al-Awazem ( ar, العوازم; also spelled Azmi and Awazem) Al Awazem is a large tribe in the Arabian Peninsula (

Kuwait Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the no ...

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United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia ( The Middle East). It is located at ...

and

Oman Oman ( ; ar, عُمَان ' ), officially the Sultanate of Oman ( ar, سلْطنةُ عُمان ), is an Arabian country located in southwestern Asia. It is situated on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and spans the mouth of ...

), Syria,

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and

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. With the majority of its population residing in

and

Origin

They are descends from: Azem bin Hind bin Hilal bin Nufayl bin Rabiah bin Kilab bin Rabiah bin Amer bin Sa`sa bin Muawiyah bin Bakr bin

Hawazin The Hawazin ( ar, هوازن / ALA-LC: ''Hawāzin'') were an Arab tribe originally based in the western Najd and around Ta'if in the Hejaz. They formed part of the larger Qays tribal group. The Hawazin consisted of the subtribes of Banu Sa'd, ...

bin Mansour bin Ikrimah bin Khasfa bin Qais Aylan bin

Mudar The Mudar ( ar, مُضَر) are one of the most powerful northern Arab tribal groupings. History The Mudar and Rabi'a are recorded in central Arabia in the Arabic histories of the pre-Islamic period; the kings of the Kindah bore the title o ...

bin Nizar bin Ma`d bin

Adnan Adnan ( ar, عدنان, 'adnān) is the traditional ancestor of the Adnanite Arabs of Northern, Western, Eastern and Central Arabia, as opposed to the Qahtanite Arabs of Southern Arabia who descend from Qahtan. His ancestry can be traced back ...

, Which goes back to the Prophet

Ishmael Ishmael ''Ismaḗl''; Classical/Qur'anic Arabic: إِسْمَٰعِيْل; Modern Standard Arabic: إِسْمَاعِيْل ''ʾIsmāʿīl''; la, Ismael was the first son of Abraham, the common patriarch of the Abrahamic religions; and is cons ...

, son of

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- peace be upon them. Al Awazim is a tribe that came and originated from Hejaz, they migrated to the eastern parts of the Arabian Peninsula by the year 1700 CE. The main reason why they migrate is the war between Al-Awazim and the Hejaz vilayet. The second reasons is the famine of

Najd Najd ( ar, نَجْدٌ, ), or the Nejd, forms the geographic center of Saudi Arabia, accounting for about a third of the country's modern population and, since the Emirate of Diriyah, acting as the base for all unification campaigns by the ...

1703 CE.

History

* Al Awazem as a tribe their history goes way back known for being one of the bravest tribes in the area, they were one of the only tribes to have fought the

Ottomans The Ottoman Turks ( tr, Osmanlı Türkleri), were the Turkic founding and sociopolitically the most dominant ethnic group of the Ottoman Empire ( 1299/1302–1922). Reliable information about the early history of Ottoman Turks remains scarce, ...

, Al Furs (Persians),

Bani Rasheed The Rashaida () is an ethnic group inhabiting the coastal plain from Massawa in Eritrea to the border with eastern Sudan. They are descended from Arabs (descended from Banu Abs) who fled from the Hejaz in present-day Saudi Arabia after tribal w ...

they are related to many tribes around the peninsula, they once fought 7 tribes to protect the

Emirate of Diriyah The Emirate of Diriyah (), also known as the First Saudi State, was established in February 1727 (1139 AH). In 1744, the emir of Najdi town called Diriyah Muhammad bin Saud and the religious leader Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab formed an allianc ...

which is (Saudi Arabia) and the fight happened near the Emarit of Kuwait it goes without saying Without Al Awazim the Arabian peninsula would be in a very different state * Al Awazem at that time had a strong alliance with

Bani Khalid Bani Khalid ( ar, بني خالد) is an Arab tribal confederation mainly inhabiting Eastern Arabia and Najd. The tribe ruled southern Iraq, Kuwait, and Eastern Arabia (al-Hasa and al-Qatif) from the 15th century to the 18th century, and agai ...

and

Al Kathiri The Al Kathiri ( ar, الكثيري) is a royal family that has had strong influence in the south of the Arabian Peninsula. It is one of the largest tribes of Banu Dhanna ibn Haram an-Nahdi in eastern Yemen and Oman, with populations in Saudi ...

who in most of the wars they had with other tribes those three tribes had a great alliance among themselves * With Al Awazem being the largest tribe in Kuwait and having most of the power in the National Parliament, Al Awazem were the first people to inhabit Kuwait build it and protect it most of the power Kuwait had come from Al Awazem, They assisted Kuwait with well known and some of the strongest commanders of the peninsula such as

Mubarak al duraya Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak, (; 4 May 1928 – 25 February 2020) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the fourth president of Egypt from 1981 to 2011. Before he entered politics, Mubarak was a career officer in t ...

who has been in many wars with

against other Arab tribes, Falah bn Jamea who is currently the tribe leader, Khalf ibn athbiya who has been fighting the ottomans and 3 of his men achieved to kill 2 of the most feared and strongest commanders in the Ottoman Empire

Hurshid Pasha Hurshid Ahmed Pasha (sometimes written Khurshid Ahmad Pasha; tr, Hurşid Ahmed Paşa, ; died 30 November 1822) was an Ottoman- Georgian general, and Grand Vizier during the early 19th century. Early life He was born in the Caucasus and was o ...

and Mohammed Al-Afandi, they helped Kuwait because they wanted to maintain peace and stability in the region * In Bahrain shaikh Musaed Al-Azmi who was the first ever Kuwaiti doctor who has sons that currently live in Bahrain for over 125 years

References

Paternal Dna Results

According To the

University Of Sheffield The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University or TUOS) is a public university, public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Its history traces back to the foundation of Sheffield Medical School in 1828, Firth C ...

Study About The Genetic structure of nomadic Bedouin from Kuwait The Result Is 3% R-M124 24%

E-M123 In human genetics, Y Haplogroup E-M123 is a Y-chromosome haplogroup, and defined by the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) mutation M123. Like its closest relatives within the larger E-M215 haplogroup, E-M123 is found in Asia, Europe and A ...

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