Al Nuaim
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The Al Nuaim or Al Noaim tribe is large Arab
Arab
Arab people, also known as Arabs , are a panethnicity primarily living in the Arab world, which is located in Western Asia and North Africa. They are identified as such on one or more of genealogical, linguistic, or cultural grounds, with tribal affiliations, and intra-tribal relationships playing...

 bedouin
Bedouin
The Bedouin are a part of a predominantly desert-dwelling Arab ethnic group traditionally divided into tribes or clans, known in Arabic as ..-Etymology:...

 tribe, based primarily in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf
Arab states of the Persian Gulf
"Arab states of the Persian Gulf" or "Arab Persian Gulf states" or "Persian Gulf Arab states" or "Arabic Persian Gulf states" or "Arab States of The Gulf", are terms that refer to the six Arab states of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman, bordering the Persian Gulf....

 and Al Sham Desert. Therefore, Al Nuaimi tribe can be found in many countries, such as Qatar, UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, KSA, Syria, Jordan and Iraq. In Gulf States, the tribe is divided to many branches such as Al Fahad, Al Sayad, Al Rahma, Al Hiyey, Al Jaber, Al Ali , Al Shamsi , Al Majed , Al Muhanna, Al Alaaq and Al bukhraiban .

The tribe is the ruling family in Ajman
Ajman
Ajman , also spelt Ujman, is one of the seven emirates constituting the United Arab Emirates . With an area of just 260 square kilometres , Ajman is the smallest emirate by area...

, UAE. In Bahrain
Bahrain
' , officially the Kingdom of Bahrain , is a small island state near the western shores of the Persian Gulf. It is ruled by the Al Khalifa royal family. The population in 2010 stood at 1,214,705, including 235,108 non-nationals. Formerly an emirate, Bahrain was declared a kingdom in 2002.Bahrain is...

, the traditional home of the tribe has been Halat Nuaim
Halat Nuaim
Halat Nuaim is a Bahraini island. It is located off the coast of Muharraq island, near the town of Hidd. It has traditionally been inhabited by the Al Nuaim tribe.-External links:*...

 island, Nowadays most of AlNoaimi families live south the kingdom in west riffa.
The Al Nuaim tribe was one of the several bedouin tribes to move to Bahrain in 1783 after the Al Khalifa conquered the island
1783 Al Khalifa invasion of Bahrain
In 1783, the Al Khalifa clan led an attack on the islands of Bahrain, from their then base of Zubara, successfully capturing it from Nasr Al-Madhkur. The Al Khalifa family has ruled Bahrain ever since...

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Also there are few families of AlNuaimi tribe that used to live in Bahrain has moved back to Qatar
Qatar
Qatar , also known as the State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qaṭar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its...

 where the families of this tribe are widley spread in Qatar
Qatar
Qatar , also known as the State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qaṭar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its...

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Members of the Al Nuaim tribe

  • Sheikh Humaid bin Rashid Al Nuaimi
    Sheikh Humaid bin Rashid Al Nuaimi
    Sheikh Humaid bin Rashid al-Nuaimi , succeeded his father Shaikh Rashid and became the emir of Ajmān in 1981 and he is the current emir of Ajmān...

     - emir
    Emir
    Emir , meaning "commander", "general", or "prince"; also transliterated as Amir, Aamir or Ameer) is a title of high office, used throughout the Muslim world...

     of Ajman
    Ajman
    Ajman , also spelt Ujman, is one of the seven emirates constituting the United Arab Emirates . With an area of just 260 square kilometres , Ajman is the smallest emirate by area...

  • Abdulla Majid Al Naimi
    Abdulla Majid Al Naimi
    Born on March 9, 1982, in Manama, Bahrain, Abdulla Majid Al Naimi is a Bahraini, formerly held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba....

  • Rashid Abdullah Al Noaimi
  • Abdulrahman al-Nuaimi
    Abdulrahman al-Nuaimi
    Abdulrahman al-Nuaimi was a Bahraini politician and opposition leader. Al-Nuaimi, who spent more than thirty years in self imposed exile from Bahrain, founded some of the country's most important political opposition groups....

    , Bahraini political activist
  • Ali Al-Naimi
    Ali Al-Naimi
    Ali bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi is the Saudi Arabian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources. Al-Naimi joined Saudi Aramco as a young man and was educated in the United States at Lehigh University under the company's educational program. He later earned his Master's Degree in Geology at Stanford...

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