The Maraziq (singular Al Marzooki or Al Marzuki) is a tribe of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Traditionally associated, together with the Tunaij, with the settlement of

Rams In engineering, reliability, availability, maintainability and safety (RAMS)Ras Al Khaimah Ras Al Khaimah (; ), often referred to its initials RAK, is the largest city and capital of the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah in the U.A.E. The city had a population of 191,753 in 2025, and is the sixth-most populous city in UAE after Dubai, Abu ...

, the Maraziq population of the town settled the western area (the Bani Humud neighbourhood, or ''freej'') between Rams and Hulaylah. The late Islamic township of Rams mostly consisted of ''khaimahs'' - traditional small, stone-walled houses capped with gabled ''barasti'', or palm-frond, roofs. The Maraziq population of the area had left the area by the early 1950s and are today dispersed around the UAE. The Bani Humud area of Rams was also known as the ''Marzuki neighbourhood'', even after the Maraziq families had left. The Maraziq are believed to originally have migrated from Arabia, and to have taken the name of the district they settled in Rams, originally populated by Iranians from Marzuq..

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