Amarar tribe

Amarar (or Amenreer Wagerda’ Amarer) is a nomadic tribe of the Beja people inhabiting the mountainous country on the west side of the Red Sea Suakin northwards and Eritrea towards Sudan. Between them and the Nile are the Ababda and Bisharin Beja tribes and to their south dwell the Hadendoa (another Beja subgroup). The country of the Amarar is called the Atbai. Their main location is in the Ariab region. The tribe is divided into four great families: (1) Weled Gwilei, (2) Weled Aliab, (3) Weled Kurbab Wagadab, and (4) the Amarar proper of the Ariab district. They are said to be of Quraysh blood through Ammar rer Aqiili and to be the descendants of an invading Arab army that came from Adal. The Amarar are said to speak the purest form of the Beja language.