Notes al-Bu-Matyut tribe, Sinjar, Iraq

This is meant mostly as a note to myself, on the tribe of al-Bu-Matyut, a section of the tribe of Juhaysh in the area of south of Mount Sinjar in North Western Iraq. It references a detailed and very learned blog entry on the Jazirology blog.

The shaykhs of the al-Bu-Matyut are from the clan of al-Jarallah. Current Shaykh is Jarallah son of Muhammad son of Jarallah son of ‘Issa son of ‘Abdallah. The semi-nomad sheep herding tribe of al-Bu-Matyut — 250 rifles in the 1930s compared to the 6000 of the Northern Shammar — rose to fame when it defeated a coalition of the Shammar and allied tribes in 1946 at the battle of al-Khunayssi.

[Edouard speculating here]: this battled is likely the context during which the Jarallah acquired the Shuwayman Sabbah strain from the Shammar. The strain then went from them to Muhammad al-Sfug al-Rahbi of the Shammar on the Syrian side of the border and from him to the sufi shaykhs of the Tfayhiyyin. The stallion of Salih al-Abd Allah al-Hasan, b. 1983, by the Hamdani Ibn Ghurab al-A’awar and the mare ‘Abeerah dam of the famous al-Khalidi come from this Tfayhiyyin branch of the strain.