Aït Oussa
The Aït Oussa, is a large Sahrawi Arab tribe in Morocco, descended from Banu Hilal.[1]
Muhammed Sulayman Al-Tayeb classifies Ait Oussa as an Arab tribe.[2]
Al-Mukhtar Al-Sussi said:
"The Arab Hilali tribe living there, now known as Ait Oussa, is a great tribe with famous chiefs.”[3]
They are a branch of the Tekna tribes[4]
The tribe numbers about 50,000 persons. The Aït Oussa tribes speak[5] Hassaniya Arabic, and are Muslims, mainly belonging to the Maliki school of Sunni Islam.
Some attribute this tribe to the Ansar, known as Banu Aws.[6]
References
- ^ "Tribus du Maroc" (in French).
- ^ "Encyclopedia of Arab Tribes book" (in Arabic).
- ^ "Al-Mukhtar Al-Sussi" (in Arabic).
- ^ "Columbia University Libraries: Les tribus de la Haute Mauritanie".
- ^ "Columbia University Libraries: Les tribus de la Haute Mauritanie".
- ^ "Research on Ait Oussa" (in Arabic).
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