Beni Guil
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| Beni Guil بني ݣيل | |
|---|---|
| Bedouin Arab tribe | |
 Beni Guil tent, 1914 | |
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Location | Eastern Morocco |
| Population | 54,000 (1994)[1] |
| Language | Arabic |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Beni Guil (Arabic: بني ݣيل, romanized: Banī Gīl) is an Arab tribe in Morocco, and are mostly nomadic Bedouins. In the 10th century, after migrating from the Arabian Peninsula, the tribe was given the right of grazing on the land of east Morocco and west Algeria by Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah, the Arab Fatimid caliph of North Africa.[2]
The tribe had a population of 54,000 people in 1994, and they inhabit a vast desert territory in eastern Morocco of 25,000 square kilometres. They remain as Morocco's largest livestock farmers and they raise as many as 600,000 sheep, 200,000 goats, and 11,000 cattle in an average yield-year.[1]
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