Al-Bayati
Surname list
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Al-Bayati (Arabic: البياتي, romanized: al-Bayātī) is a surname. It is connected to the Iraqi al-Bayat tribe.
The tribe is named after their traditional region of Tuz District in Saladin Governorate, northern Iraq.[1][2][3][4]
The ancestry and ethnicity of those carrying the al-Bayati name is split between Arabs and Turkmen.[5] Arab sources claim it as an Arab tribe of the Tayy tribal confederacy.[6][7] Turkmen sources however claim the tribe's ancestry is linked to the Oghuz Turkic Bayat tribe with origins in Khorasan.[8][9][10][11][6][12]
Notable people
- Abbas al-Bayati, Iraqi Shiite politician
- Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayati (1926–1999), Iraqi Arab poet
- Basil Al Bayati (1946), Iraqi architect
- Mohammed Mahdi al-Bayati (1962), Iraqi politician
- T. Hamid al Bayati, Iraqi diplomat, academic and author
