| Oulad Delim أولاد دليم | |
|---|---|
| Hassani Arab tribe | |
 Leaders of the Oulad Delim Sahrawi tribe at Río de Oro, February 1941. Photograph taken by Tomás Ázcarate Ristori. | |
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Location | Río de Oro |
| Descended from | Delim bin Hassan |
| Parent tribe | Beni Ḥassān |
| Language | Arabic (Hassaniya Arabic) |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
The Oulad Delim (Arabic: أولاد دليم, romanized: Awlād Dulaym) also sometimes written as Oulad Dalim or Oulad Dlim are a Bedouin Sahrawi tribe of Arab descent. They come from the Banu Hassan tribe which is part of the larger Maqil.[1][2][3] They were formerly considered of Hassane status i.e. part of the ruling warrior stratum.[2] The Oulad Delim speak Hassaniya Arabic, a Bedouin dialect which is very close to pure classical Arabic.[4] They traditionally live in the southern regions of Western Sahara, especially around the city of Dakhla.[2] They are also found in Morocco in the region of Rabat, Marrakech, Sidi Kacem and El Jadida, where their ancestors received lands from the Moroccan sultans for their participation in warfare, as a Guich tribe, as well as in Mauritania in the region between Nouadhibou and Idjil.
The Oulad Delim have extensive tribal connections with northern Mauritanian tribes. They are Muslims, adhering to the Maliki school of Sunni Islam.[2]
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- ^ a b c d Suwaed, Muhammad (2015). Historical Dictionary of the Bedouins. Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures. Lanham, MD Boulder New York London: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 175. ISBN 978-1-4422-5451-0.
- ^ Colin, G.S. (2012). "Maṣmūda". In Bearman, P.J. (ed.). Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_com_0701. ISSN 1573-3912.
- ^ Sabatier, Diane Himpan; Himpan, Brigitte (2019-03-31). Nomads of Mauritania. Vernon Press. pp. 110–111. ISBN 978-1-62273-410-8.