Balush (tribe)

Balush
Arab tribe
EthnicityArab
Location(Al Dhahirah Governorate) – Al Ain (UAE)[1]
Descended from(Al-Zaffa Clan)
BranchesAl Mazm
LanguageArabic
ReligionIslam

The Balush (Arabic: البلوش);[2] singular Al-Balushi[3] (Arabic: البلوشي) is one of the Arab Bedouin tribes.[4][5][6][7] Members of the tribe can be found in Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. The tribe is a branch of Al-Zaffa clan while the origins of Al-Zaffa clan are from the Al-Ahamdah clan.[6][8] and Al-Ahamdah branched into many tribes in the countries of the Levant, after a migration from Hijaz (Western Arabia) to the Levant started from the lineage [Khozam From Qahtan] until the Tribe Appeared and Named (Balush)[9] in the Levant.[8][10][11][12]

The Balush tribe is one of the Bedouin Tribes.[5]

As Heard-Bay the author of From Trucial States To The United Arab Emirates who denied the descend and the relation between the Balush tribe and the Baloch ethnic as mentioned in her book on page 64.[4][13]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :33 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Al-Balush tribe celebrations of the UAE National Day". WAM – EMIRATES NEWS AGENCY. 2014-12-04.
  3. ^ Heard-Bey, Frauke (1996). From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates : a society in transition. Better World Books. London : Longman. p. 525. ISBN 978-0-582-27728-1. OCLC 38355501. Balush (singl. Balushi; tribe living in Eastern Arabia) 31, 64-5, 66, 277
  4. ^ a b Heard-Bey, Frauke (2005). From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates: A Society in Transition. Motivate. p. 448. ISBN 978-1-86063-167-2. OCLC 1423672447. This does not apply to the members of the tribe called Balush, which has been in Dhahirah for a very long time and is accepted as if it were an Arab tribe.
  5. ^ a b "Statement of 'Ali Aba al-Rus [Bedouins Tribes Of Buraimi]". Arabian Gulf Digital Archives. 1954-12-06 [1917]. Archived from the original on 2024-11-06. We spent about six months with Su'ayyid Al Faisal and went from Buraimi with seventy-six riding-camels as gifts from all the Bedouins: Nu'aim, Al Bu Shamis, Bani Kitab [Qitab], Bani Ka'b, The Balush, ...
  6. ^ a b Dictionary of Arab tribes (PDF) (in Arabic). United States – CIA Library. 1968. p. 277.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ^ "معجم قبائل العرب – الدكتور عمر كحالة – ج ٢ – الصفحة ٤٧٦". shiaonlinelibrary.com. Retrieved 2024-03-14.
  8. ^ a b معجم قبائل العرب القديمة والحديثة | مجلد 1 | صفحة 104 | المجلد الاول | باب الباء | بلقين: | الأنساب [Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Arab Tribes | Volume 1 | Page 104 | Volume I | Bab Al-B | Balqin: | Al-Ansab] (in Arabic). p. 104.
  9. ^ "نبأ الأردن : الماجستير للأستاذ زياد محمد البلوش .. ألف مبروك". نبأ الأردن. 2021-06-09. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
  10. ^ "وكالة رم : قبيلة البلوشي وال البلبيسي نسايب ." [Rum Agency: Al-Balushi and Al-Balbisi tribe are relatives..]. وكالة رم للأنباء – أخبار عاجلة، آخر الأخبار، صور وفيدوهات للحدث. (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 2024-09-26. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
  11. ^ Kahhala, Omar (1949). معجم قبائل العرب القديمة والحديثة [A dictionary of ancient and modern Arab tribes.] (in Arabic). Beirut: The Hashemite Library. p. 70.
  12. ^ معجم قبائل العرب القديمة والحديثة | مجلد 2 | صفحة 476 | المجلد الثاني | باب الزاي | زغيلات: | الأنسا [Dictionary of the Tribes of Ancient and Modern Arabs | Volume 2 | Page 476 | Volume II | Bab Al-Zai | Zghilat: | Al-Ansab] (in Arabic). p. 476.
  13. ^ Heard-Bey, Frauke (2005). From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates: A Society in Transition. Motivate. p. 64. ISBN 978-1-86063-167-2. OCLC 1423672447. These Balush are not to be identified with the people who had come from the former Omani possession Makran, now part of Pakistan, to serve in the Sultan's army as mercenaries, nor are they descended from the Baluchis who settled in Muscat