Dulaim

Dulaim
Total population
3,000,000[1]
Regions with significant populations
 Iraq2,000,000[1]
Languages
Arabic
Religion
Sunni Islam

Dulaim (also rendered as Dulaimi, Al Duliam or Dulaym; Arabic: الدليم) is an Arab royal tribe, with over seven million members. The tribe's history goes back to pre-Islamic times and members reside today in Iraq and neighboring countries such as Syria, Kuwait and Jordan.[2]

It is also spelled Dulaimi, Dulaym, and Dalaimy. Members of this tribe are commonly identifiable by the surnames of their own clans or by the name Al-Dulaimi. The hereditary leadership of the Dulaim tribe has been transferred between many various houses, the last well known Prince of Dulaim was Abdulrazak Ali Suleiman who comes from the Albu Assaf clan. And it is the largest tribe in Iraq, with more than seven million[citation needed] people.

  1. ^ a b Saif al-rawi / The Iraqi tribes (Arabic) / Page 54 / According to the government statistics in 2002
  2. ^ Hamad Al-Jassir, "Hizzan", Compendium of the Lineages of the Settled Families of Iraq, pt. II, p. 889 (Arabic)