The Kunud (singular Al Kindi) is a tribe of the
United Arab Emirates (UAE) and
Oman.
By the turn of the 20th century, the Kunud, a population of some 1,500, were mostly settled on the East Coast, from
Nizwa in
Oman to
Kalba in
Sharjah and
Al Hayl in
Fujairah, as well as
Mahdah and
Buraimi.
Long associated with the
Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...
(Al Suwaidi), the Kunud have been linked to
Miqdad ibn Aswad Al Kindi, an immigrant into Oman from Yemen at the time of the Islamic prophet,
Muhammad. Traditionally, the Kunud followed the Omani
Ibadi faith.
References
{{Arab tribes in the United Arab Emirates
Tribes of the United Arab Emirates