Al-Ubaid is one of the Arab Tribes in Iraq

Arab tribes in Iraq

Many Iraqis identify more or less strongly with a tribe . Thirty of the 150 or so identifiable tribes in Iraq are the most influential. Tribes are grouped into federations...

 settled around Kirkuk

Kirkuk

Kirkuk is a city in Iraq and the capital of Kirkuk Governorate.It is located in the Iraqi governorate of Kirkuk, north of the capital, Baghdad...

. The tribe migrated from the Baghdad

Baghdad

Baghdad is the capital of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Governorate. The population of Baghdad in 2011 is approximately 7,216,040...

 area to the area of Hawija

Hawija

Hawija is a town near Kirkuk north of Baghdad.Hawijah is in the Al-Tamim province of Iraq and approximately 30 miles south of Kirkuk. There are approximately 450,000 people in and around Hawijah with an estimated 80% Sunni Population. While the city itself has about 150.000 with 98% Sunni...

 and Khabour early in the 19th Century. The tribe has been contract

Contract

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ed by the Iraqi state-owned North Oil Company to protect the oil

Oil

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 pipelines from the Kirkuk

Kirkuk

Kirkuk is a city in Iraq and the capital of Kirkuk Governorate.It is located in the Iraqi governorate of Kirkuk, north of the capital, Baghdad...

 fields to the Turkish

Turkey

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 oil terminal of Ceyhan

Ceyhan

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The al Ubaid Tribe are descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammed through his grandson Hussein

Hussein

Hussein , is an Arabic name which is the diminutive of Hassan, meaning "good", "handsome" or "beautiful"...

, they have ruled as Emirs of Mominin in the Fatimid

Fatimid

The Fatimid Islamic Caliphate or al-Fāṭimiyyūn was a Berber Shia Muslim caliphate first centered in Tunisia and later in Egypt that ruled over varying areas of the Maghreb, Sudan, Sicily, the Levant, and Hijaz from 5 January 909 to 1171.The caliphate was ruled by the Fatimids, who established the...

 times, soon after its collapse they converted from the Shi'ite sect of Islam to the Sunni Sect of the religion.
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