Howeitat

Huwaytat الحويطات
al'iishraf Arab tribe
Sheikh Auda Abu Tayi and men of his tribe with a group of officers of the Arab Army in 1916.
Ethnicity	Arab
Location	Hejaz, southern Jordan, The Negev, Sinai, Sharqia
Parent tribe	al'iishraf
Language	Arabic (Northwest Arabian dialect)
Religion	Sunni Islam

1838 map of the Red Sea region; the Howeitat are marked with a red arrow in the north section, to the east of the Gulf of Aqaba.

The Howeitat or Huwaitat (Arabic: الحويطات al-Ḥuwayṭāt, Northwest Arabian dialect: ál-Ḥwēṭāt) are a large Judhami tribe that inhabits areas of present-day southern Jordan, the Sinai Peninsula and Sharqia governate in Egypt, the Negev, and northwestern Saudi Arabia. The Howeitat have several branches, notably the Ibn Jazi, the Abu Tayi, the Anjaddat, and the Sulaymanniyin, in addition to a number of associated tribes.