Hadhrami people
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The Hadhrami or Hadharem are people from the Hadhramaut
and their descendants in diaspora
communities around the world. They speak Hadhrami Arabic
.
Though most of the Muslim peoples of the Arabian peninsula speak Arabic and have similar ancestry and dress, they are not all one people. Among the two million inhabitants of Democratic Yemen, there are 1,300 distinct Arab tribes. Even unity among the 151,000 Hadrami people is not very strong. Antagonism between townsfolk and wandering tribesmen has been so bitter that the towns are surrounded by stone walls to protect them from attack by their tribal countrymen.
Many Hadramis still practice the nomadic lifestyle of their ancient ancestors. But today approximately half of the Hadramis live in the towns and villages scattered through the deep valleys of their region. Even among these settled peoples, there are sharp distinctions, the highest social prestige belonging to the wealthy, educated Sadahs, who claim to be direct descendants of Muhammed. Hadramis rarely marry outside their own social level, and often live in segregated groups in separate parts of town.
basin, from the Horn of Africa
and the Swahili Coast
in East Africa
to the Malabar Coast
and Hyderabad, India in South India
, and to Maritime Southeast Asia
.
There are Hadharem communities in the trading ports of the Arab Gulf states and the Red Sea
. The money changers in Jeddah
, Saudi Arabia
have usually been of Hadhrami origin.
The Hadhrami have long had a notable presence in the Horn region, especially in Somalia
, Ethiopia
and Djibouti
. Hadhrami settlers were instrumental in helping to consolidate the Muslim
community in the coastal Benadir
province, in particular. During the colonial period, disgruntled Yemenis from the Hadhrami wars additionally settled in various Somalian towns, and were frequently recruited in the armies of Somali Sultans
.
Some Hadhrami communities also reportedly exist in Mozambique
and Madagascar
.
Indonesia
East Timor
Malaysia
Singapore
East Africa
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Hadhramaut
Hadhramaut, Hadhramout, Hadramawt or Ḥaḍramūt is the formerly independent Qu'aiti state and sultanate encompassing a historical region of the south Arabian Peninsula along the Gulf of Aden in the Arabian Sea, extending eastwards from Yemen to the borders of the Dhofar region of Oman...
and their descendants in diaspora
Diaspora
A diaspora is "the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland" or "people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location", or "people settled far from their ancestral homelands".The word has come to refer to historical mass-dispersions of...
communities around the world. They speak Hadhrami Arabic
Hadhrami Arabic
Hadhrami Arabic is a variety of Arabic spoken by the Hadhrami people living in the . It is also spoken by many Hadhrami emigrants who migrated from to East Africa , South-east Asia and, recently, to the other Gulf countries...
.
Though most of the Muslim peoples of the Arabian peninsula speak Arabic and have similar ancestry and dress, they are not all one people. Among the two million inhabitants of Democratic Yemen, there are 1,300 distinct Arab tribes. Even unity among the 151,000 Hadrami people is not very strong. Antagonism between townsfolk and wandering tribesmen has been so bitter that the towns are surrounded by stone walls to protect them from attack by their tribal countrymen.
Many Hadramis still practice the nomadic lifestyle of their ancient ancestors. But today approximately half of the Hadramis live in the towns and villages scattered through the deep valleys of their region. Even among these settled peoples, there are sharp distinctions, the highest social prestige belonging to the wealthy, educated Sadahs, who claim to be direct descendants of Muhammed. Hadramis rarely marry outside their own social level, and often live in segregated groups in separate parts of town.
Distribution
The Hadharem have a long sea-faring and trading tradition, which has seen them migrate in large numbers all around the Indian OceanIndian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and...
basin, from the Horn of Africa
Horn of Africa
The Horn of Africa is a peninsula in East Africa that juts hundreds of kilometers into the Arabian Sea and lies along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden. It is the easternmost projection of the African continent...
and the Swahili Coast
Swahili Coast
The Swahili Coast refers to the coast or coastal area of East Africa inhabited by the Swahili people, mainly Kenya, Tanzania, and north Mozambique...
in East Africa
East Africa
East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN scheme of geographic regions, 19 territories constitute Eastern Africa:...
to the Malabar Coast
Malabar Coast
The Malabar Coast is a long and narrow coastline on the south-western shore line of the mainland Indian subcontinent. Geographically, it comprises the wettest regions of southern India, as the Western Ghats intercept the moisture-laden monsoon rains, especially on their westward-facing mountain...
and Hyderabad, India in South India
South India
South India is the area encompassing India's states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area...
, and to Maritime Southeast Asia
Maritime Southeast Asia
Maritime Southeast Asia refers to the maritime region of Southeast Asia as opposed to mainland Southeast Asia and includes the modern countries of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei, East Timor and Singapore....
.
There are Hadharem communities in the trading ports of the Arab Gulf states and the Red Sea
Red Sea
The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. In the north, there is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez...
. The money changers in Jeddah
Jeddah
Jeddah, Jiddah, Jidda, or Jedda is a city located on the coast of the Red Sea and is the major urban center of western Saudi Arabia. It is the largest city in Makkah Province, the largest sea port on the Red Sea, and the second largest city in Saudi Arabia after the capital city, Riyadh. The...
, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
have usually been of Hadhrami origin.
The Hadhrami have long had a notable presence in the Horn region, especially in Somalia
Somalia
Somalia , officially the Somali Republic and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic under Socialist rule, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. Since the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991 there has been no central government control over most of the country's territory...
, Ethiopia
Ethiopia
Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...
and Djibouti
Djibouti
Djibouti , officially the Republic of Djibouti , is a country in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea in the north, Ethiopia in the west and south, and Somalia in the southeast. The remainder of the border is formed by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden at the east...
. Hadhrami settlers were instrumental in helping to consolidate the Muslim
Muslim
A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...
community in the coastal Benadir
Benadir
Benadir is a coastal region of Somalia. It covers most of the Indian Ocean coast of the country, from the Gulf of Aden to the Juba River, containing the capital of Mogadishu. The name comes from Persian bandar, which means port , a fact that reflects the region's importance to Persian and Arab...
province, in particular. During the colonial period, disgruntled Yemenis from the Hadhrami wars additionally settled in various Somalian towns, and were frequently recruited in the armies of Somali Sultans
Somali people
Somalis are an ethnic group located in the Horn of Africa, also known as the Somali Peninsula. The overwhelming majority of Somalis speak the Somali language, which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family...
.
Some Hadhrami communities also reportedly exist in Mozambique
Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...
and Madagascar
Madagascar
The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...
.
Tribes and families
- AzmatkhanAzmatkhanAzmatkhan al-Husayni, also spelled Azmat Khan, al-Azhamatkhan or al-Azhamat Chan are a family originating in Hadhramaut. They trace their lineage to Sayyid Abd al-Malik Azmatkhan ibn Alawi Ammul Faqih, a descendant of Husayn ibn Ali...
- BaAbbad ال باعبَّاد
- BamakhramaBamakhramaBamakhrama : is a tribe from Hadhramaut state in the Republic of Yemen. This family is one of the tribes which constitute the "Hemiyar" tribe. Hemiyar is one of the largest tribes in the Arabian Peninsula. Bamakhrama is famous for its scientists, judges, and scholars...
بامخرمة - Al-'Ansi العنسي
- KathiriKathiriKathiri was a sultanate in the Hadhramaut region of the southern Arabian Peninsula, in what is now officially considered part of Yemen and the Dhofar region of Oman....
الكثيري - Qu'aitiQu'aitiQu'aiti , officially the Qu'aiti State in Hadhramaut Qu'aiti , officially the Qu'aiti State in Hadhramaut Qu'aiti , officially the Qu'aiti State in Hadhramaut (Arabic: (الدولة القعيطية الحضرمية) or the Qu'aiti Sultanate of Shihr and Mukalla (Arabic:سلطنة الشحر والمكلاا ), was a sultanate in the...
القعيطي - Ba'Alawi sadah آل باعلوي
- BahajriBahajriBahajri, or as they call in Hadramout Al Bahjeri, they are one of the families of the Wadi Dawan one of Hadhramaut's Governorate in the south of the Arabian Peninsula have known this family in ancient times , which is due origin to the Kingdom of Kindah that used to be in Yemen before collapse of...
باهجري - Bafaqih بافقية
- Bajammal باجمال
- AL YAFAI
- Ba'amer باعامر
- Alamoudi
- AlBar
- AlAbikarow
- Alhadrami
- Al Jabri
- Al Saery
- Basawad
- Basalma
- Bawazeer
- Bagadeem
- Al Gerzy
- Bamatraf
- Al Bayti
- Barabood
- Bin Harharah بن هرهرة
- Al Zubeydi
- Al Sowmhi
- Al Manhali
- Al Amry
- Al Saqqaf
- Al Kaaf
- Bin Sawwad
- Bin Shahbal
- Bin Ladeen
- Bin Dohry
- Bin Suweydan
- Al Attas
- Bazuhayr بازهير
- Al Hayqi
- Al Nahdi
- Lajam لعجم
- Alhamid
- Aljuneid
- Alsree
- Bin Sheikh Abu Bakar
Diaspora communities
- Arab IndonesianArab IndonesianArab Indonesians are citizens of Indonesia of Arab, mainly Hadrami, descent. Restricted under Dutch East Indies' law until 1919, the community elites later gained economic power through real estate investment and trading...
- Arab SingaporeanArab SingaporeanThe majority of the Arabs in Singapore are Hadhramis tracing their ancestry from the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula called Hadhramaut, which is now part of the Republic of Yemen. The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen PDRY was formed on 30 November 1967 when it achieved independence...
- ChaushChaushThe Chaush are a Sunni Muslim community of Hadhrami Arab descent found in the Deccan region of India. An extension of these Arab descendants are also found in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Montenegro. It is a Turkish word used particularly during the Ottoman era of the Balkans, 'Chaush' or Čauši were...
, in IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world... - Sodagar (Gujarati Shaikh)
- Arab (Gujarat)Arab (Gujarat)A large number of people with Arab origins have over time have settled in the state of Gujarat in India, and now form one of the large communities Muslim in that state. They are also known as Chavuse, especially in Saurashtra...
(some claim to be of Hadhrami descent) - NawayathNawayathThe Nawayaths are a small Muslim community concentrated mostly in coastal Uttara Kannada. It is an ethnic society, having its own unique traditions and distinct cultural identity...
in India - MappilaMappilaMappila or Moplah refers to a Muslim community of Kerala, primarily in the northern region called Malabar, which arose in Malabar as a result of the pre and post Islamic Arab contacts. Significant numbers of the community are also present in the southern districts of Karnataka and western parts of...
in India (some claim Hadhrami descent)
Hadhrami people
South Asia- General El EdroosGeneral El EdroosMajor-General Syed Ahmed El Edroos was the commander-in-chief of the Hyderabad State army at the time of the annexation of Hyderabad State by India in 1948. He was a close confidante and trusted aide of His Excellency the VII Nizam of Hyderabad. His brothers were also senior officers and...
- omer bin mohammed al hazrami,hyderabad,indiascholar
- Salam MasdoosiSalam MasdoosiSaalam Bin Musdoos Al Masdoosi Al Muhannad aka Salam Masdoosi was an Islamic scholar, social activist, leader, guide and philanthropist from Mahbubnagar, A.P....
, Hyderabad, India - Sulaiman AreebSulaiman AreebSulaiman Areeb was an Urdu poet, who was born 1922 in Hyderabad, Deccan. He was of Hadhrami Arab origin whose ancestors arrived from Hadramaut to Hyderabad. His father Sulaiman bin Abd al-Razzaq was Risaldar in Nizam's time. He was married twice and second time to Safia Begum, who herself was an...
, Hyderabad, India, poet - Awaz SayeedAwaz SayeedAwaz Sayeed , full name Awaz Bin Sayeed, was a renowned modern short-story writer, poet, Khaka-naveez, humorist and playwright from Hyderabad, India. He was known for his unique, innovative and inimitable style of short story writing...
, Hyderabad, India, Urdu writer and poet - Ahmed Abdullah MasdoosiAhmed Abdullah MasdoosiAhmad Abdullāh al- Masdūsī احمد عبدالله المسدوسى was born in 1905 in Mahboobnagar, India in a Hadhrami Arab family BaMasdoos which was migrated to Deccan from Hazrmout Yemen. His father Musdoos Bin Abdullah was an emir of Bamusdoos tribe as well as the qazi, Imam and leader. He was a poet, honest...
, Pakistan - Nuruddin ar-RaniriNuruddin ar-RaniriNuruddin ibn Ali ar-Raniri was an Islamic scholar from Gujarat, India, who worked for several years in the court of the sultan of Aceh in what is now Indonesia...
, Islamic scholar - Shah Jalal, Bangladesh, Sufi saint
- Shah ParanShah ParanShah Paran was a renowned Sufi saint of the Suhrawardiyya and Jalalia order. It is said that he was the son of a sister of Hazrat Shah Jalal and was born in Hadramaut, Yemen. He was an accomplice of his uncle, Shah Jalal, with whom he arrived in India. In 1303 AD, He took part in the expedition...
, Bangladesh, Sufi saint - Subhani ba YunusSubhani ba YunusSubhani ba Yunus Born in Aurangabad of Hyderabad Deccan, Subhani Ba Yunus was an accomplished actor whose distinct voice quality earned him a special place in Radio Pakistan.He is a Hyderabadi Muslim of Hadhrami Chaush descent...
, Pakistan, actor
Indonesia
- Ali AlatasAli AlatasAli Alatas was an Indonesian diplomat of Hadhrami descent, who served as the country's foreign minister from 1988 to 1999. He was Indonesia's longest serving foreign minister.-Education and early career:...
, former Foreign Minister - Nuruddin ar-RaniriNuruddin ar-RaniriNuruddin ibn Ali ar-Raniri was an Islamic scholar from Gujarat, India, who worked for several years in the court of the sultan of Aceh in what is now Indonesia...
, Islamic scholar - Sayyid Abdullah Al-AidarusSayyid Abdullah Al-AidarusSayyid Abdullah ibn Syekh Al-Aidarūs was a Hadhrami Arab religious leader who lived in the 16th century. He is best known for being the great-grandfather of Tun Habib Abdul Majid, the Bendahara of the Johor-Pahang empire whose descendants have established ruling houses in Malaysia and the Riau...
, religious leader - Alwi ShihabAlwi ShihabAlwi Abdurrahman Shihab is one of the leading authorities and scholars on the interaction of Christian and Muslim communities. Currently he is the Indonesian President's special envoy to Middle-East and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation...
, Foreign Minister - Munir Said ThalibMunir Said ThalibMunir Said Thalib , affectionately known simply as "Munir", was one of Indonesia's most famous human rights and anti-corruption activist...
, human rights activist - Habib Abdoe'r Rahman AlzahierHabib Abdoe'r Rahman AlzahierHabib Abdoe'r Rahman Alzahier was an Arab who played a major role in the Aceh War.-Sources:*1880. Korte levensschets van de Arabier Habib Abdoe'r Rahman Alzahir naar zijn eigen opgaven samengesteld. De Indische Gids II. Bladzijde 1008-1020....
, religious leader - Sunan AmpelSunan AmpelSunan Ampel was one of Wali Songo, who spread Islam in Java. He can be considered a focal point of the wali songo, because several of them were descended from him and/or studied with him....
, Sufi saint - Raden SalehRaden SalehRaden Saleh Sjarif Boestaman is one of the best known painters from Indonesia and a pioneer of modern Indonesian art....
, Artist/painter - Habib Ali Kwitang, religious leader
- Fadel MuhammadFadel MuhammadFadel Muhammad is an Indonesian politician and businessman. He was appointed as the Governor of the then-newest Indonesian province, Gorontalo for the period 2001-2006. In 2006, he won the first Gorontalo gubernatorial election, making him governor until 2011...
, minister of maritime affairs and fisheries - Sultan Badaruddin II, sultan of Palembang
- Anies BaswedanAnies BaswedanAnies Baswedan, Ph.D., is currently the President of Paramadina University in Jakarta, Indonesia. He is the initiator and chairman of Teaching Indonesia ....
, scholar
East Timor
- Mari AlkatiriMari AlkatiriMari Bim Amude Alkatiri was the first Prime Minister of an internationally-recognized East Timor. He served from May 2002 until he resigned on 26 June 2006 following weeks of political unrest in the country...
, former Prime Minister
Malaysia
- Syed Muhammad Naquib al-AttasSyed Muhammad Naquib al-AttasSyed Muhammad al Naquib bin Ali al-Attas is a prominent contemporary Muslim philosopher and thinker from Malaysia. He is one of the few contemporary scholars who is thoroughly rooted in the traditional Islamic sciences and who is equally competent in theology, philosophy, metaphysics, history, and...
, philosopher - Syed Hussein AlatasSyed Hussein AlatasSyed Hussein Alatas was a Malaysian academician, sociologist, founder of social science organizations, and former politician. He was once Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya in the 1980s, and formed the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia...
, politician and sociologist - Abdullah bin Abdul KadirAbdullah bin Abdul KadirAbdullah bin Abdul Kadir , also known as Munshi Abdullah, was a Malayan writer of Indian origin. He was a famous Malacca-born Indian munshi of Singapore and died in Jeddah, then part of the Ottoman Empire ....
, writer - Muhammad Dzan bin Abdullah al-Husaini, aka Anas K Hadimaja, novelist
- Syed Hamid AlbarSyed Hamid AlbarTan Sri Syed Hamid bin Syed Jaafar Albar , is a Malaysian politician and the former Malaysian Minister of Home Affairs. He is currently the chairman of the Land Public Transport Commission. He is also a member of the United Malays National Organisation , part of the ruling Barisan Nasional...
, politician - Syed Jaafar AlbarSyed Jaafar AlbarTan Sri Syed Jaafar bin Hassan Albar was a Malaysian politician. His staunch defense of his political party, the United Malays National Organisation — which leads the governing Barisan Nasional coalition — led to him being given the moniker "Lion of UMNO"...
, politician - Syed Sheh Hassan BarakbahSyed Sheh Hassan BarakbahTun Syed Sheh Al-Haj bin Syed Hassan Barakbah was a prominent Malaysian judge. He was the second Lord President of the Federal Court, and the first Malaysian to hold that office...
, judge - Syarif MasahorSyarif MasahorSayyid Mashhur bin Muhammad Al-Shahab was a famous Malay warrior of Hadhrami descent in Sarikei, Sarawak state, Malaysia during the Brooke White Rajahs era in that state.- Background :Before the arrival of James Brooke, he was a powerful member who ruled and, in the past,...
, warrior - Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary businessman
- Syed Nasir IsmailSyed Nasir IsmailTun Dato' Syed Nasir bin Ismail was a Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat, the lower house of the Parliament of Malaysia. During his lifetime, he was known as an ultra who sought to guarantee the primacy of the Malay language in Malaysia through the closing down of Chinese and Tamil vernacular schools...
, politician - Tun Habib Abdul MajidTun Habib Abdul MajidTun Habib Abdul Majid was the 19th Bendahara of the Johor Sultanate during the late 16th century. The Johor Sultanate under Sultan Mahmud Shah II saw a gradual decline of royal authority during Tun Habib's tenure as the Bendahara of Johor...
, Grand Vizier - Zeti Akhtar AzizZeti Akhtar AzizTan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz is the 7th and current governor of Bank Negara Malaysia, Malaysia's central bank. She has been governor since May 2000, and was the first woman in the position.-Early life:...
, Governor of Central Bank - House of Jamalullail (Perak)House of Jamalullail (Perak)The House of Jamalullail of the Perak branch is one of the oldest Syed clans in Malaysia. It was established in 1528 C.E. when Saidina Hussain Al-Faradz Al-Jamalullail from Hadramaut arrived in Perak to spread Islam.According to R.O...
- House of Jamalullail (Perlis)House of Jamalullail (Perlis)The House of Jamalullail is the current ruling house of the state of Perlis in Malaysia. It was founded in 1843 together with the formation of the state of Perlis, after the Sultan of Kedah, Sultan Ahmad Tajuddin II gave his endorsement to the Jamalullail family for the secession of Perlis from...
Singapore
- Syed Mohamed AlsagoffSyed Mohamed AlsagoffThe al-Saggoffs were spice traders and became influential by marrying into a royal family from the Celebes. They acquired many properties, like the other Arab families, including the "Perseverance Estate" where they grew lemon grass. The estate is now considered to be the heart of the Muslim...
, merchant - Syed Mohamed Syed Ahmad AlsagoffSyed Mohamed Syed Ahmad AlsagoffSyed Mohamed bin Syed Ahmad Alsagoff was an Hadhrami Muslim born in Singapore. He had his education at Victoria School and later joined the Malayan Armed Forces, the predecessor of the Malaysian Armed Forces...
, military leader - Lotfi Abubakr Lajam, Businessman
East Africa
- Najib BalalaNajib BalalaNajib Balala is a Kenyan politician. He is the Tourism Minister and a M.P...
, KenyaKenyaKenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
, Member of Parliament - Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed SambiAhmed Abdallah Mohamed SambiAhmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi is a Comorian Islamic leader and politician, and former President of Comoros. He is popularly known as 'Ayatollah'. After easily winning the 14 May 2006 presidential election with 58.02% of the national vote, Sambi was inaugurated as President of the Union of the...
, President of ComorosComorosThe Comoros , officially the Union of the Comoros is an archipelago island nation in the Indian Ocean, located off the eastern coast of Africa, on the northern end of the Mozambique Channel, between northeastern Mozambique and northwestern Madagascar... - Mohammed Al AmoudiMohammed Al AmoudiSheikh Mohammed Hussein Ali Al Amoudi Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Ali Al Amoudi Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Ali Al Amoudi (Ge'ez: ሞሓመድ አልአሙዲ, Arabic: محمد حسين العمودي; is a Saudi Arabian/Ethiopian businessman and billionaire who lives in Ethiopia and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. As of 2011, his net worth has...
, EthiopiaEthiopiaEthiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...
, Businessman - Artega tribe, Babkeer, SudanSudanSudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...
- Habib SalihHabib SalihHabib Salih or Salih bin Alawi Jamal al-Layl was an Islamic scholar and saint who resided in Lamu, Kenya. He was born to a Sharifian family of Arab Hadhrami descent in the Comoros, but went to Lamu to study at some point between 1876 and 1885. After completing his studies he taught in Lamu and...
, LamuLamu-Threats to Lamu:In a 2010 report titled Saving Our Vanishing Heritage, Global Heritage Fund identified Lamu as one of 12 worldwide sites most "On the Verge" of irreparable loss and damage, citing insufficient management and development pressure as primary causes.- See also :* Juma and the Magic...
, Kenya, religious scholar
Qatar
- bin shahbal
Saudi Arabia
- bin Laden familyBin Laden familyThe bin Laden family , also spelled bin Ladin, is a wealthy family intimately connected with the innermost circles of the Saudi royal family. The family was thrown into media spotlight through the activities of one of its members, Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks...
- Bahareth familyBaharethThe Bahareth Family:Hadrami Hejazi Hashmi- The Family History :The Bahareth family is one of the oldest families that lived in the city of Jeddah for more than 80 years. And in the city of Makkah, Islam's holiest city home to the Kaaba shrine and The Grand Mosque. The family lived there for...
- Mohammed Al AmoudiMohammed Al AmoudiSheikh Mohammed Hussein Ali Al Amoudi Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Ali Al Amoudi Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Ali Al Amoudi (Ge'ez: ሞሓመድ አልአሙዲ, Arabic: محمد حسين العمودي; is a Saudi Arabian/Ethiopian businessman and billionaire who lives in Ethiopia and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. As of 2011, his net worth has...
, businessman - Babkeer Family,
- Bajammal Family
- Alhadhrami Family
- BahajriBahajriBahajri, or as they call in Hadramout Al Bahjeri, they are one of the families of the Wadi Dawan one of Hadhramaut's Governorate in the south of the Arabian Peninsula have known this family in ancient times , which is due origin to the Kingdom of Kindah that used to be in Yemen before collapse of...
Family - Bughshan Family
- Bahamdan Family
Yemen
- Sayyid Abu Bakr Al-Aidarus (saint)Sayyid Abu Bakr Al-Aidarus (saint)Sayyid Abū Bakr Al Adni ibn 'Abdallāh Al-'Aidarūs was a Hadhrami Arab religious scholar of the Sufi order and a poet of wrote several Arab poems in the Humayni vernacular style. Abu Bakr led most of his adult life in Aden, where he was well respected for his societal contributions to the...
- Habib Ali al-JifriHabib Ali al-JifriHabib Ali Zain al-`Abideen al-Jifri is an Islamic scholar from Hadhramaut, Yemen of the Shafi'i school of fiqh, and the Ashari school of aqida.-Background:...
, Islamic scholar - Habib Umar bin HafizHabib Umar bin HafizHabib Umar bin Hafiz , is an Islamic scholar, teacher, and founder and dean of Dar al-Mustafa Seminary in Tarim, Hadhramaut, Yemen.-Background:...
, Islamic scholar - Abd Al-Rahman Ali Al-JifriAbd Al-Rahman Ali Al-Jifrias-Sayyid AbdulRahman Ali AlJifri is a prominent Yemeni opposition leader. He was the Vice-President of the Presidency Council of the short-lived Government of the Democratic Republic of Yemen that was established on May 21, 1994...
, politician - Abdulaziz Al-SaqqafAbdulaziz Al-SaqqafProfessor Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf was a Yemeni human-rights activist, economist, and journalist.Al-Saqqaf established the Yemen Times, unified Yemen’s first and most widely-read English-language independent newspaper, in 1991, and was the winner of the N.P.C.'s International Award for Freedom of the...
, human-rights activist - Imam al-HaddadImam al-HaddadImam Abd Allah ibn Alawi al-Haddad born in 1634 CE .He lived his entire life in the town of Tarim in Yemen’s Valley of Hadramawt and died there in 1720 CE .In Islamic history, he was considered one of the sages...
, Sufi saint - Faisal Bin ShamlanFaisal Bin ShamlanFaisal Othman Bin Shamlan was a Yemeni intellectual, technocrat, political reformist and public figure. He was a Yemeni member of parliament who had held the post of Oil and Mineral Resources Minister in the post-unification government of Yemen...
, politician - Abdul Qadir Bajammal, former Prime Minister, former Foreign Minister, General People's Congress Member
Further reading
- Leif Manger, The Hadrami Diaspora: Community-building on the Indian Ocean Rim, Berghahn Books, 2010
- Omar Khalidi, The Arabs of Hadramawt in Hyderabad in Mediaeval Deccan History, eds Kulkarni, Naeem and de Souza, Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1996
- Leif Manger, Hadramis in Hyderabad: From Winners to Losers, Asian Journal of Social Science, Volume 35, Numbers 4-5, 2007 , pp. 405–433(29)
- Engseng Ho, The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean, University of California PressUniversity of California PressUniversity of California Press, also known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893 to publish books and papers for the faculty of the University of California, established 25 years earlier in 1868...
, 2006 - Ababu Minda Yimene, An African Indian community in Hyderabad, Cuvillier Verlag, 2004, pg 201
- Natalie Mobini-Kesheh, The Hadrami Awakening: Community and Identity in the Netherlands East Indies, 1900-1942, SEAP Publications, 1999
- Anne K. Bang, Sufis and Scholars of the Sea: Family Networks in East Africa, 1860-1925, Routledge, 2003
- Linda Boxberger, On the Edge of Empire: Hadhramawt, Emigration, and the Indian Ocean, 1880s-1930s, SUNY Press, 2002
- Ulrike Freitag, Hadhramaut: A Religious Centre for the Indian Ocean in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries?, Studia IslamicaStudia IslamicaStudia Islamica is an Islamic studies journal focusing on the history, religion, law, literature and language of the Muslim world, primarily south-western Asia and Mediterranean lands. According to its publisher it has published the works of well-known Orientalists such as Robert Brunschvig,...
, No. 89 (1999), pp. 165–183 - The Hadhrami Diaspora in Southeast Asia: Identity Maintenance or Assimilation?, edited by Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk and Hassan Ahmed Ibrahim, BRILLBrillBrill is a village and civil parish in Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England, close to the boundary with Oxfordshire. It is about north-west of Long Crendon and south-east of Bicester...
, 2009 - A Hadrami Diaspora in the Sudan in Diasporas Within and Without Africa: Dynamism, Hetereogeneity, Variation edited by Leif O. Manger and Munzoul A. M. Assal, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2006, pg 61
- Abdullah Hassan Al-Saqqaf, The Linguistics of Loanwords in Hadrami Arabic, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Volume 9, Issue 1 January 2006 , pages 75 – 93
- Hadhrami Traders, Scholars and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s-1960s Edited by Ulrike Freitag and William G. Clarence-Smith, BRILLBrillBrill is a village and civil parish in Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England, close to the boundary with Oxfordshire. It is about north-west of Long Crendon and south-east of Bicester...
, 1997 - Frode F. Jacobsen, Hadrami Arabs in Present-day Indonesia, Taylor & FrancisTaylor & FrancisTaylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in the United Kingdom which publishes books and academic journals. It is a division of Informa plc, a United Kingdom-based publisher and conference company.- Overview :...
, 2009 - Patricia W. Romero, Lamu: History, Society, and Family in an East African Port City, Markus Wiener Publishers, 1997, pp 93 – 108, 167- 184
- Mona Abaza, M. Asad Shahab: A Portrait of an Indonesian Hadrami Who Bridged the Two Worlds in Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Islam, Movement, and the Longue Durée, edited by Eric Tagliacozzo, NUS Press, 2009, pp 250 – 274
- Ulrike Freitag, From Golden Youth in Arabia to Business Leaders in Singapore: Instructions of a Hadrami Patriarch in Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Islam, Movement, and the Longue Durée, edited by Eric Tagliacozzo, NUS Press, 2009, pp 235 – 249
- Talib, Ameen, Hadramis in Singapore, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, vol 17 no1 (April 1997): 89- 97 (UK).
- Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied, The Role of Hadramis in Post-Second World War Singapore - A Reinterpretation, Immigrants & Minorities, Volume 25, Issue 2 July 2007 , pages 163 - 183
- Iain Walker, Hadramis, Shimalis and Muwalladin: Negotiating Cosmopolitan Identities between the Swahili Coast and Southern Yemen, Journal of Eastern African Studies, Volume 2, Issue 1 March 2008 , pages 44 – 59
- Shanti Sadiq Ali, The African Dispersal in the Deccan: From Medieval to Modern Times, Orient Blackswan, 1996, pp 193–202