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The Khlout (Arabic: خلوط, romanized: Khlūṭ or Arabic: خلط, romanized: Khulṭ) also written as Khlut, Khlot and sometimes Khult is an Arab tribe belonging to the Jacham of the Banu Hilal confederacy in Morocco.[1][2] They today inhabit the Gharb region along with other Arab tribes.[3]
History
[edit]Originally from Bahrain, the tribe first settled in Egypt then Tunisia. In the twelfth century, Almohad ruler Yaqub al-Mansur brought them to Morocco and installed them in Tamesna (current day Chaouia).
The Khlout inhabited the region of Tadla (then part of Tamesna) in the early days of the Saadi dynasty. Around 1540, they entered the service of Mohammed al-Shaykh and then they rebelled against him to join the Turkish army of Wattasid ruler Abu Hassun. After Mohammed al-Shaykh became the ruler of Morocco, he removed the military controls of the Khlout, introduced the payment of taxes and deported their leader to Marrakesh. With the advent of Ahmad al-Mansur, and due to their heroic conduct at the battle of El Oued Makhazen in 1578, Ahmad al-Mansur reintegrated half of the tribe to the army and settled the rest to the Azghar region where they remain to this day.[1][2]
Leo Africanus writing about the Khlout said:[4]
The Muntafiq live in the plains of Azgar and are now called al-Khlot; they pay tributes to the King of Fez, and number 8000 well-equipped cavalry.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Suwaed, Muhammad (2015). Historical Dictionary of the Bedouins. United Kingdom: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 133. ISBN 9781442254510.
- ^ a b "Khlout". Tribus du Maroc (in French). Retrieved 2024-11-03.
- ^ Camps, G. (1998-10-01). "Gharb". Encyclopédie berbère (in French) (20): 3086–3092. doi:10.4000/encyclopedieberbere.1917. ISSN 1015-7344.
- ^ Africanus, Leo (2023-03-02). The Cosmography and Geography of Africa. Random House. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-14-199882-4.