Al-Bayati ( Arabic: البياتي, romanized: al-Bayātī) is a surname. It is connected to the Iraqi al-Bayat tribe.
The ancestry and ethnicity of the al-Bayat tribe is contentious. The tribe's ancestry is often linked to the Oghuz Turkic Bayat tribe [1] and its ethnicity described as Iraqi Turkmen or Turkish. [2] [3] [4] Other sources however describe it as an Arab tribe or mixed Arab and Kurdish tribe of the Tayy tribal confederacy. [4] The deceased Sheikh Hussein Aloush was ethnically Turkmen. [5] Members of the tribe generally speak Iraqi Arabic and Iraqi Turkmen. [6]
Al-Bayati ( Arabic: البياتي, romanized: al-Bayātī) is a surname. It is connected to the Iraqi al-Bayat tribe.
The ancestry and ethnicity of the al-Bayat tribe is contentious. The tribe's ancestry is often linked to the Oghuz Turkic Bayat tribe [1] and its ethnicity described as Iraqi Turkmen or Turkish. [2] [3] [4] Other sources however describe it as an Arab tribe or mixed Arab and Kurdish tribe of the Tayy tribal confederacy. [4] The deceased Sheikh Hussein Aloush was ethnically Turkmen. [5] Members of the tribe generally speak Iraqi Arabic and Iraqi Turkmen. [6]