Source: • Al-Zayadeen (الزيادين) – Descendants of Sidi Zaydan and Sidi Ahmed of the Moroccan Alaouites. • Al-Mazawgha (المزاوغة) – Descendants of Sidi Amer Al-Mezoghi (based in the Sidi Amer Zawiya in Susah, Tunis); He is considered the progenitor of the tribe in Libya and Tunisia. • Al-Ghrariyun (الغراريون) – Descendants of Sidi Salem. • Awlad Slayman (أولاد سليمان) – Descendants of the Seven Fawatir. • Gumata (قماطه) – Descendants of Muslim. • Al-Awasij (العواسج) – Descendants of Sidi Bou-Hmayra. • Shurafa Waddan (شرفاء ودان) – Descendants of Sidi Kolan. •
Qadhadhfa (القذاذفة) – Descendants of Sidi
Mousa. • Al-Hmaydat and Al-S'afaat (الحميدات والسعفات) – Descendants of Sidi Bou-Hmayda Al-Seqfi. • Al-'Ajaylat (العجيلات) – Descendants of Sidi Mohammed Harakat. • Al-Taboul (الطبول) – Descendants of Sidi Mohammed Abi Tabl. • Al-Serara (السرارة) – Descendants of Sidi Ibrahim Ben-Sarar. • Ashrāf Tribe Sidi Aburad Buzedion {البوزيديون} • Ashrāf Tribe Sidi Abdel Rahman Alepeshty Olobashat {لأبشات} • Ashrāf Tribe Sidi spears Al-rmohh {الرمحة} • Ashrāf Tribe Sidi Ahmed Al Murr Ghani Alemragna {المراغنة} • Ashrāf Tribe Sidi Mohammed Faqih Al-Fuqhah {الفقهاء} • Ashrāf Tribe Sidi Sayeh Al-Sayāh Alawneh {سياح العلاونة} • Ashrāf Tribe Sidi Abu Salaamah Salamat Begrean {السلامات بغريان} • Ashrāf Tribe Sidi Faraj Bin Hamdan Al Furjan {الفرجان} • Ashrāf Tribe of Sidi al-Qutb Abdullah al-Khattabi (الخطاطبة العمرانيون) • Ashrāf Tribe of Sidi ‘Amāra Al-Dawadī (
Zawiya) • Ashrāf Tribe of Sidi Hamid al-Hudayri (al-Hadirāt). • Ashrāf Tribe of al-Fawākhir. • Ashrāf Tribe of Abdel Wahid al-Dukāli (
Msallata). • Ashrāf Tribe of Sidi Banu Layth (Bani Nile and Bani Ahmed) and also (al-Hawawasa, Fasiun and al-Suwadinia). • Ashrāf Tribe of al-Mushāshi: descendants of Moulay Abdel-Salam Meshish. The sub-branches include: • [A] Awlad Sidi Haji Abdul Salam bin Hassan bin Omar Mashini (tribe of al-Haboun) • [B] Awlad Al-Sharif Al-Haaj Fakhruddin Yahya ibn Nabeul (tribe of Al-Barash) • [C] Awlad Mismar ibn Abdel Mawlā (tribe of al-Masamir) • [D] Awlad Sidi Haji Mohammad Abdul Nabi al-Asfar, nicknamed Klim al-Tair and Abu Seif (ancestor of Awlad Abu Yusuf) • [E] Awlad Sidi al-Makashif Abdul Rahman, nicknamed Aldrai (ancestor of the Mushasha tribe). • [F] Awlad Sidi Mohamed al-Messaoudi al-Sehdī al-Yahyaoui: ancestor of Awlad as-Saydi and al-Masoudi on the coast of Tripoli. • Ashrāf tribe of Sidi Abdel Rahman Abu Zubaydah, a descendant of
Abdul Qadir Gilani, ancestor of the Zubaydat tribe, the Zirqan of Tarhuna, Krabooli and Yafran. • Ashrāf tribe of Siy’ān {Awlad Sidi Muhammad Abu Issa’}: based in
Sbiba, west of
Kairouan. Progenitor of the tribe, brother of Sidi Salam Abu Gharra, progenitor of the al-Gharara tribe in
Medenine and
Gabés. • Ashrāf tribe of
Qutb Sidi Ibrahim al-Mahjoub (
Zawiya of al-Mahjoub), ancestor of the Mahajib tribe in Misrata and
Sorman. • Ashrāf Azwaip tribe Brakna. • Ashrāf tribes of al-Barakinah, al-Muqarana and al-Ziyayinah all share a common ancestor, Sidi Ahmed al-Burkan: based in the Kabylie region of Algeria and
Mali. • Banu Issa (Western Libya): includes Amour and the
Dawada ethnic group in southern Libya, as well as the Farjan tribes of Sidi Faraj ibn Hamdan. • Ashrāf tribe of Al-Tayira, they are Awlad Sidi Abdul Karim: located in
Sabratha and Sorman,
Menzel Chaker and Oran, Algeria, as well as the Awlad Suleiman al-Tayar in southern Libya. • Ashrāf tribe of Al-Humāmala: descendants of Sheikh Sidi Muammar, based in
Tarhuna and Sidi Ibn Hamāl, based in
Sirte. • Al-Ja’afra tribe who claim descent from Jafar, who hails from Awlad Moulay Abdullah bin Idris and reside in Garyan, Al-Baran and Tripoli. • Ashrāf tribe of Sidi Moulay Cherif guardian Abu Kassim Abu Shusha: based in
Ziltan and they belong to the tribe of Awlad Khuwaylid Balnsfir are descendants of Moulay Abdullah ibn Idris. • Ashrāf tribe of Bani Badr, descended from Sidi Mohamed Ben Ali who is buried in
Ghadames. • Ashrāf tribe of Oulad al-Sharif, Sidi Ali al-Tishani in
Tajura on the coast of Tripoli (al-Tashashna). • Ashrāf tribe of Moulay Sidi Sheikh Abdul Karim Nafati. • Ashrāf tribe of al-Mnaffa, they reside in
Butnan,
Tobruk, and the Western Sahara (Egypt). Clan of Sheikh
Omar Mukhtar. • Ashrāf tribe of Almhachc in
Jebel Akhdar and Butnan. • Ashrāf tribe of Sidi Abu Roik in Jebel Akhdar. • Awlad Sidi Wazzani in
Tobruk. • Ashrāf tribe of Moulay al-Qasim ibn Moulay Idriss: they reside in Darna, having settled there in the middle of the 12th century. • Ashrāf tribe of Al-Mātiik, they are Zawah, Al-Fassi, Awlad Annan, Awlad Zakaria, Awlad Aoun and Awlad Abad: based in western Libya. • Ashrāf tribe of al-Mukhalif founded by Sidi Abdallah Abu Gleida, based in
Tataouine. • Ashrāf tribe of al-Makhayif founded by Sidi Makhlouf, reside in Marith, Gabes, and Sorman. • Ashrāf tribe of An-Na’meon founded by Sharif Ali bin Na’āma: they are sons of Abdul Nabi Al-Frujan Awlad Ali. • Ashrāf tribe of Al-na’āsa, descendants of Abdel Rahman al-Na’as: reside in
Tajura, Tarhuna and Tripoli. • Ashrāf tribe of Shaqārina descendants of Mohamed Abu Dabbous in
Gharyan. • Ashrāf tribe of Alamarion descendants of Ali al-Amari (Gasr Akhyar). • Ashrāf tribe of Shabab of Ghayran, Rahiban, Ifrane and Fassato descendants of Mohamed Ben Salem, based in baldat al-Jūsh, Libya. • Ashrāf tribe of ar-Rajban, descendants of Sidi Ahmed al-Rajban: based in the town of Ar-Rajban. • Tribe of al-Shida and Awlad Sidi Youssef of Zawiya, Al Maya and Tuwaybiyah: descendants of Sidi Mahfouz ibn Sidi Abbas al-Mulilā al-Maghribi. • Ashrāf tribe of Sidi Abu Saīd descendants of Sidi Ahmed Abī al-Afrān, based in
Al Maya. • Ashrāf tribe of Sidi Najm, based east of Benghazi. • Ashrāf tribe of Aljdua, descendants of Sharif Sidi Youssef Al-Jarani from Msallata. • Ashrāf tribe of Awassi of
Tarhuna: founded by Sharif Abdel Mawla ibn Isa. • Ashrāf tribe of Al-Kawanīn (Kenounis) descendants of Sidi Ibrahim Al-Sharaf: Tarhuna and Tripoli. ==See also==