The Al-Haram () or Al-Harm are a

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tribe of

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Arabs. An Al-Haram myth of origin asserts that they were originally protectors of the

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in the Sacred Mosque or

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. Jane Hathaway writes that the Haram are presented (but not explicitly stated) in Arab chronicles as a Bedouin tribal group, opposed to the Sa'd faction. The tribe "evidently had a lengthy presence in

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", as "pre-Islamic inscriptions in the south Arabian language refer to a H-R-MM". According to Hathaway, the mediaeval Moroccan traveller

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(1304-1377) reports that the 'Banu Haram' people lived in Hali in the north of Yemen. Similarly, Hathaway writes that Yahya b. al-Husayn reports that the Jabal Haram (the mountains of the Haram people) in northern Yemen "submitted to the Zaydi imam in the late thirteenth century". Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi writes that in 1760, soldiers "fled to Qishm to seek assistance from Shaikh Rahmah and the Al Haram tribe" on the Persian coast.Al-Qasimi, 1999. pages 46-47.

Bibliography

* Hathaway, Jane. ''Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen''. SUNY Press, 2003.
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* Al-Qasimi, Sultan Bin Muhammad. ''Power Struggles and Trade in the Gulf: 1620-1820.'' University of Exeter Press, 1999
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References

External links

iTouchMap: Al Haram, Yemen
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