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'''Al Balushi''' ({{lang-ar|البلوشي}}; alternatively Baloushi, Balooshi, Bloushi or Blooshi) is a tribal surname common in the [[Arab states of the Persian Gulf]], particularly [[Oman]], the [[United Arab Emirates]], [[Kuwait]], [[Qatar]] and [[Bahrain]]. It is a ''[[Nisba (onomastics)|nisba]]'' and is [[Arabization|Arabized]] from the term ''Balochi'',{{efn|{{lang-bal|{{nq|بلو چی}}}}, local definition: of, or related to Balochistan.}} denoting someone who has [[Baloch people|Baloch]] ancestry from [[Balochistan]] (Pakistan/Iran).<ref name="RH">{{cite web|url=http://rhawker.me/zayed-university/more-reflections-on-teaching-at-zayed-university/a-beginners-guide-to-society-in-the-uae/ |title=A Beginner’s Guide to Tribes in the UAE |first=Ron |last=Hawker |work=Digital Heritage in the UAE |date=2015 |access-date=23 July 2016 |quote=Some htribes trace roots to other ethnic groups. Among the most important of these are the Baluch (or in Arabic, the Al Balooshi). Their ancestors came from the Baluchistan district split between [[Iran]] and [[Pakistan]] in the late 19th century. |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314205941/http://rhawker.me/zayed-university/more-reflections-on-teaching-at-zayed-university/a-beginners-guide-to-society-in-the-uae/ |archive-date=14 March 2016 }}</ref>
{{Infobox tribe
|name= Al-Balush
|local name= البلوش
|type= Branch of ([[Al-Zaffa Clan]]) Arab tribe
|image= [[File:A Photo Of Arab Bloosh In United Arab Emirates.jpg|alt=Al Ain City, United Arab Emirates|thumb|A Photo Of Arab Bloosh's In Wedding United Arab Emirates.]]
|image_size= 120x120
|caption=
|ethnicity= [[Arabs|Arab]]
|location= [[Levant]] - [[Balqa (region)|Balqa]] - ([[Shinas]]) [[Oman]]
|descended= ([[Qahtanite|Qahtan]]), [[Hejaz|Hijaz]]
|population=
|branches=
|language= [[Arabic]]
|religion= [[Islam]]
|surnames= Al-Balushi, Al-Baloushi, Al-Balooshi, Al-Bloushi, Al-Blushi, Al-Blooshi
}}
'''Al-Balush''' ({{lang-ar|البلوش}}); singular Al-Balushi ([[Arabic]]: البلوشي) from the word (Al-Balush).<ref>{{Cite news |date=2014-12-04 |title=Al-Balush tribe celebrations of the UAE National Day |url=https://wam.ae/ar/details/1395273427103 |issue= |agency=WAM - EMIRATES NEWS AGENCY}}</ref><ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-06-09 |title=نبأ الأردن : الماجستير للأستاذ زياد محمد البلوش .. ألف مبروك |url=https://nabaajordan.com/articles/45403 |access-date=2024-03-17 |website=نبأ الأردن}}</ref> One of the Arab tribes of [[Levant]],<ref name=":9" /><ref name=":14">{{Cite web |title=عشيرة الزففة - القويسمة |url=https://rabettah.net/family/family.php?id=3388 |access-date=2024-03-13 |website=rabettah.net |language=ar}}</ref><ref name=":16">{{Cite web |title=معجم قبائل العرب - الدكتور عمر كحالة - ج ٢ - الصفحة ٤٧٦ |url=http://shiaonlinelibrary.com/الكتب/3452_معجم-قبائل-العرب-الدكتور-عمر-كحالة-ج-٢/الصفحة_67 |access-date=2024-03-14 |website=shiaonlinelibrary.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Heard-Bey |first=Frauke |url=https://books.google.ae/books?redir_esc=y&hl=ar&id=Xa-BAAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Balush |title=From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates: A Society in Transition |date=1982 |publisher=Longman |isbn=978-0-582-78032-3 |language=en}}</ref> Members from the tribe are commonly found in those areas, [[Arab states of the Persian Gulf|Persian Gulf region]], [[Levant|Countries of the Levant]]. particularly [[Oman]], the [[United Arab Emirates]], [[Iraq]], [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]], [[Jordan]], [[Kuwait]], [[Qatar]], [[Bahrain]], [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Yemen]], [[Egypt]], [[Tunisia]] and [[Morocco]]. People carrying this surname trace their tribal origins to Al-Zaffa clan and the origins of [[Al-Zaffa Clan|Al-Zaffa clan]] are from the Al-Ahamdah clan.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |url=https://ketabonline.com/ar/books/1323/read?part=1&page=105&index=2439550/2439954/2440310 |title=معجم قبائل العرب القديمة والحديثة {{!}} مجلد 1 {{!}} صفحة 104 {{!}} المجلد الاول {{!}} باب الباء {{!}} بلقين: {{!}} الأنساب |pages=104 |language=ar |trans-title=Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Arab Tribes {{!}} Volume 1 {{!}} Page 104 {{!}} Volume I {{!}} Bab Al-B {{!}} Balqin: {{!}} Al-Ansab}}</ref><ref name=":9">{{Cite book |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/64/640BF13B2CEE4A30DD6BB9228257CB79_%CE%A9%CF%80%C3%B1%CE%A9%20%CF%84%C3%A1%C6%92%E2%82%A7%CE%98%20%C6%92%CE%98%CF%80%E2%8C%90%C3%A1.pdf |title=Dictionary of Arab tribes |publication-place=United States - CIA Library |publication-date=1968 |pages=277 |language=ar}}</ref> and branched out in the countries of the [[Levant]], after a migration from Hijaz (Yemen) to the Levant, and they became of Levant origin, and their lineage is from the [[Hejaz|Hijaz]] ([[Yemen]]),<ref name=":13" /><ref name=":14" /><ref name=":17">{{Cite book |last=Kahhala |first=Omar |author-link=Umar Rida Kahhala |url=https://www.noor-book.com/كتاب-معجم-قبائل-العرب-القديمه-والحديثه-v-2-pdf |title=معجم قبائل العرب القديمة والحديثة |collaboration= |publisher=The Hashemite Library |year=1949 |location=Beirut |pages=70 |language=ar |trans-title=A dictionary of ancient and modern Arab tribes. |chapter-format=}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Al-Attar |first=Adnan |url=http://archive.org/details/20210315_20210315_0933 |title=تاريخ البلوش |publisher=Dar Al-Mahaba Damascus - Syria |date=2004–2005 |edition=1st |location=Dar Aya - Beirut |page=8 |language=ar |trans-title=History Of Bloosh |format=PDF}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> However, there are some of them whose ancestors trace their tribal origins from Coast of Makran during, the migrations from Sultanate Of Oman to Coasts of [[Makran]] in late of medieval ages and before 19th Century, are ([[Oman|Omani]] origin).<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=الهنيامي |first=حسن بن عبد الرحمن |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OHCtDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA33 |title=بلدة مجيس العمانية: تاريخها ، جغرافيتها ، علماؤها و شيوخها ، أعيانها ، عاداتها و تقاليدها |date=2014-01-01 |publisher=Al Manhal |isbn=9796500163864 |language=ar}}</ref><ref name=":5" />


People carrying this surname trace their tribal origins to [[Balochistan]], a region in south [[Iran]] and [[Pakistan]] located across the [[Persian Gulf]].<ref name="RH"/> Their ancestors predominantly came from the [[Makran]] coast in the 19th century.<ref name="RH"/> The Al Balushi speak Arabic, while some also use [[Balochi language|Balochi]] or [[Persian language|Persian]] and few have knowledge [[Urdu language|Urdu]]. They are mainly [[Sunni Muslim]]s.<ref name="RH"/> They are a populous tribe in Oman, the UAE and Bahrain.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.khaleejtimes.com/article/20110516/ARTICLE/305169837/1002|title=Tribal leaders pledge loyalty|work=Khaleej Times|date=17 May 2011|access-date=9 August 2016|first=Nissar|last=Hoath|quote=Some of the big tribes, including Al Dhawahir, Al Shawamis, Al Za’ab, Al Ka’ab, Al Braiki and Al Balush have already concluded their meetings with thousands of people signing the documents that are being finalised.}}</ref>
They are a part of The [[Bedouin|Bedouins.]]<ref name=":14" /> The Al Balushi speak Arabic, however some of them use [[Balochi language|Balochi]] or [[Persian language|Persian]], and they are (very-few), For persons who pretended to be from the Tribe or influenced by other cultures and languages, likely Baloch ethnic, learned from others, But it has no connection to the tribe, only a similarity of names.<ref>{{Cite book |last=J. |first=Frederick |url=https://archive.org/details/20220731_20220731_1546/page/n351/mode/1up |title=تاريخ شرقي الأردن وقبائلها |publisher=Al-Ahlia For Publishing And Distribution |edition=1nd |location=The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan |publication-date=1998 |pages=352 |language=ar |trans-title=The History of Eastern Jordan and its Tribes}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite web |date=2015-04-21 |title=تقسيمات عشائر قبيلة بلي في الاردن |trans-title=Tribes of the Bily tribe in Jordan (Balqawia) |url=https://www.bluwe.com/info/2015/04/21/%d8%aa%d9%82%d8%b3%d9%8a%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%b9%d8%b4%d8%a7%d8%a6%d8%b1-%d9%82%d8%a8%d9%8a%d9%84%d8%a9-%d8%a8%d9%84%d9%8a-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%af%d9%86/ |url-status=live |access-date=2024-03-17 |website=مدونة بلي - Bily Tribe Official Site |language=ar}}</ref><ref name=":12" /> They are mainly [[Sunni Muslim]]s. They are a populous tribe in [[Oman]], [[United Arab Emirates|UAE]], the [[Kuwait]] and [[Bahrain]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.khaleejtimes.com/article/20110516/ARTICLE/305169837/1002|title=Tribal leaders pledge loyalty|work=Khaleej Times|date=17 May 2011|access-date=9 August 2016|first=Nissar|last=Hoath|quote=Some of the big tribes, including Al Dhawahir, Al Shawamis, Al Za’ab, Al Ka’ab, Al Braiki and Al Balush have already concluded their meetings with thousands of people signing the documents that are being finalised.}}</ref>


==The beginning of the Tribe==
==People==
[[File:Map of the Balqawi Clan.png|thumb|[[Al-Zaffa Clan|Zaffa]] Clan Map in Levant Circled in Red (in Arabic).]]
Notable people with the surname include:
[[File:Tribes Between Oman And UAE..jpg|thumb|List of Tribes in United Arab Emirates & Sultanate Of Oman, as Listed (Balush) Tribe in the East(in The Sultanate Of Oman).]]
[[File:Sur Al Balush, Sultanate Of Oman..jpg|thumb|Sur Al Balush, In [[Shinas]] State, [[Oman|Sultanate of Oman]].<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |date=2015-12-06 |title=42 أسرة تستفيد من مبادرة "بئر المسرة" بقرية سور البلوش في شناص |url=https://alroya.om/post/150684/42-أسرة-تستفيد-من-مبادرة-بئر-المسرة-بقرية-سور-البلوش-في-شناص|access-date=2024-03-03 |website=جريدة الرؤية العمانية |language=ar}}</ref>]]
[[File:Coast makran balush arab esimated 1889.jpg|thumb|An old photograph belonging to members of the [[Bedouin]] Arab Balush tribe in the desert of the coast of Makran.]]
One of the Arab<ref name=":6">{{Cite book |last=Firestone |first=Matthew |url=https://archive.org/details/kenya0000unse/page/26/mode/2up |title=Kenya |date=2009-06-01 |publisher=Lonely Planet Publications |year=2009 |isbn=9781741047738 |series=Lonely Planet |location=Footscray, Vic. London |pages=27 |language=en |archive-url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balooshi%27s_Arab_(origin).jpg |archive-date=2019-10-01 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Bedouin]] tribes traveling in the desert they migrated from Hijaz (Yemen) to the Levant, from the main branches of the (Al-Ahmada) and branched from the Zaffa clan<ref name=":9" /> in the Levant, and later the majority of them left to ([[Yemen]]), then ([[Oman|Sultanate of Oman]]), then to Coasts Of Makran (It was a part of the [[Oman|Sultanate of Oman]]),<ref name=":12">{{Cite book |last=Heard-Bey |first=Frauke |url=https://archive.org/details/fromtrucialstate0000hear/page/64/mode/2up?q=Balush |title=From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates : a society in transition |date=1996 |publisher=London : Longman |others=Better World Books |isbn=978-0-582-27728-1 |pages=64}}</ref> then back to ([[Oman|Sultanate of Oman]]).


The estimated date of a migration from Coasts Of Makran to Sultanate Of Oman is (16 - 19th) Century.
; Sportspeople
==Origin of the Tribe name==
* [[Azan Al-Balushi]], Omani footballer
The Word balshh ([[Arabic]]: بلشه)<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&start=171&v=FdpQxOjlCjc |title=البلوش (عرب من كلمة بلشه) |last=Al-Sherai |first=Ali Bin Ahmed |type=Video |language=ar |trans-title=Al-Balush (from Balshh word) |access-date=2022-05-18 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref> means (Trouble) in Arabic, a word has been used In the colloquial dialect of the Levant countries, after the tribe migrated from Hijaz to the Levant, and the origin of the word is due to the fact that that word was used because other tribes felt in Trouble when trying to wage wars with them.

Then named (Balush), Later (Al-Balush).

While some writers referred the naming of the tribe is back to Ottoman rule:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Surname Al Blooshi: Meaning Origin Variants |url=https://www.igenea.com/en/surnames/a/al-blooshi |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=www.igenea.com}}</ref> The word (Balush) means courage<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |date=2022-07-04 |title=البلوش تاريخ و حضارة عربية – مركز جمال بن حويرب للدراسات |url=https://jbhsc.ae/book/البلوش-تاريخ-و-حضارة-عربية-2/ |access-date=2024-02-29 |language=ar}}</ref> in Turkish origin, and the origin of the word dates back to the periods of Ottoman rule over the branches of the Arab tribes in Levant,<ref name=":0" /> and their influence on the tribe (naming).

==Tribal lineage==
[[File:Doucment006.dated.1981.jpg|thumb|A letter from the General Authority for Antiquities and Book Houses in the [[Yemen Arab Republic]] about the Arab tribe, Al-Balush.]]
Billy bin Amr bin Al-Haf bin Qud'a'ah bin Malik bin Hamir bin Saba bin Yashjeb bin Yarub Al-Qahtani (Al-Azdi).<ref name=":13">{{Cite web |date=2009-10-11 |title=المدينة نيوز - وزراء عشائر البلقاوية |url=http://www.almadenahnews.com/article/26387-وزراء-عشائر-البلقاوية |access-date=2024-03-13 |website=www.almadenahnews.com}}</ref><ref name=":9" /><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":7" /><ref name=":2">{{Citation |last=Morkcke |title=تاريخ البلوش |date=2004-03-25 |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:تاريخ_البلوش.jpg |access-date=2008-06-23 |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/20210315_20210315_0933/page/n7/mode/2up |archive-date=2021-03-15 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=دخنة |first=شريفي، إبراهيم جار الله بن |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DFhmAAAAMAAJ&q=البلوش |title=الموسوعة الذهبية في أنساب قبائل وأسر شبه الجزيرة العربية |date=1998 |publisher=إ.ج.ا.ب.د. الشريفي، |language=ar}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Morkcke |title=العربية: احدى الصحف العمانية (نسب البلوش الاصليين هم من بلي القحطانية). |date=2024-02-29 |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CBGI3NHUwAA-dIO.jpg |access-date=2024-02-29}}</ref><ref name=":1" />

== Similarity of Names ==
The beginning of the Balush tribe is that they branched off from the ancient Yemeni Azd tribes, although at that time they were not the ethnicity that some call them (Baloch).

Then they migrated from [[Hejaz|Hijaz]] ([[Yemen]]), in a date estimated before the (medieval) period to the [[Levant]] countries<ref name=":16" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |url=https://ketabonline.com/ar/books/1323/read?part=2&page=475&index=2442807/2443253/2443376 |title=معجم قبائل العرب القديمة والحديثة {{!}} مجلد 2 {{!}} صفحة 476 {{!}} المجلد الثاني {{!}} باب الزاي {{!}} زغيلات: {{!}} الأنسا |pages=476 |language=ar |trans-title=Dictionary of the Tribes of Ancient and Modern Arabs {{!}} Volume 2 {{!}} Page 476 {{!}} Volume II {{!}} Bab Al-Zai {{!}} Zghilat: {{!}} Al-Ansab}}</ref> then [[Yemen]] in (medieval) period, then [[Oman|Sultanate of Oman]], then finally coast of [[Magan (civilization)|Majan]]<ref name=":10">{{Cite book |last=McGrail |first=Seán |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C8GLGNrxxQMC&pg=PA58 |title=Boats of the World: From the Stone Age to Medieval Times |date=2004 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-927186-3 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=تحميل كتاب حضارة عمان القديمة - كتب PDF |url=https://www.alarabimag.com/books/29413-حضارة-عمان-القديمة.html |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=مجلة الكتب العربية - كتب و روايات |language=ar}}</ref> (now [[Makran]]).

The Persians took the word (Balush) "from (Al Balush) Arab tribe" and turned it into (Blwj) then (Baloch) to establish a previously unknown ethnicity of Persian origins who came from somewhere in North East (Zabulistan) to (Sistan) lands, while (Sistan) has been set as a part of Makran by Portuguese during the Portuguese colonization in the (16th century) after the Portuguese colonization, which led to the expansion of Magan and they changed it from Magan to Makran during the colonial period.

[[Sistan]] is the original name before Balochistan land.

Until the British colonization in (1812) AD, these regions were ruled separately, so that after the Portuguese were expelled from the lands of Makran, the Persian Empire took control of the lands of Sistan, and it was separated from Makran, and Sistan became under independent rule by the Persian Empire.

There is a difference<ref name=":11">{{Cite book |last=Heard-Bey |first=Frauke |url=https://archive.org/details/fromtrucialstate0000hear/page/508/mode/2up?q=Balush |title=From trucial states to United Arab Emirates : a society in transition |date=1982 |publisher=London ; New York : Longman |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-582-78032-3 |pages=508}}</ref> linguistically, culturally, in lineage, and origins between the Balush of Makran<ref name=":11" /> at that time. They migrated from the south of the Arabian Peninsula to the coasts of Majan and Majan under the Omani rule over them (which is Makran today). They were originally from branches of Al-Zaffa Clan.<ref name=":9" /><ref name=":4" />

As for the Baloch who came from Sistan, who are known today as (Baloch of Balochestan), they are from Sistan of Persian origins, and they came with a language, dialects, and cultures dating back to Persian and Urdu, And they doesn’t relate to the tribe with any relationship, the lineage or anything in the Arab Balush tribe,<ref name=":17" /> only the similarity of names between the (Baloch) ethnicity and the (Balush) tribe.<ref name=":12" />

This proves that their origins from Al-Balqawia<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Al-Attar |first=Adnan |url=http://archive.org/details/20210315_20210315_0933 |title=تاريخ البلوش |date=2004–2005 |publisher=Dar Al-Mahaba Damascus - Syria |edition=1st |location=Dar Aya - Beirut |page=8 |language=ar |trans-title=History Of Bloosh |format=PDF}}</ref><ref name=":22">{{Citation |last=Morkcke |title=تاريخ البلوش |date=2004-03-25 |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:تاريخ_البلوش.jpg |access-date=2008-06-23 |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/20210315_20210315_0933/page/n7/mode/2up |archive-date=2021-03-15 |url-status=live}}</ref> that the [[Arabs|Arab]]<ref name=":62">{{Cite book |last=Firestone |first=Matthew |url=https://archive.org/details/kenya0000unse/page/26/mode/2up |title=Kenya |date=2009-06-01 |publisher=Lonely Planet Publications |year=2009 |isbn=9781741047738 |series=Lonely Planet |location=Footscray, Vic. London |pages=27 |language=en |archive-url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balooshi%27s_Arab_(origin).jpg |archive-date=2019-10-01 |url-status=live}}</ref> Balush in [[Makran]] (who migrated from Sultanate of Oman) is based on the Sunni-Hanafi-Shafi'i<ref name=":32">{{Cite book |last=الحسن |first=عبداللطيف عبدالرحمن عبدالله |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gw5SDwAAQBAJ&q=ينتبه+العرب|title=العلاقة السياسية بين إيران والعرب: جذورها ومراحلها وأطوارها |date=2018-03-19 |publisher=العبيكان للنشر |isbn=978-603-509-173-2 |language=ar}}</ref> doctrine and not as some claim to be Persians, although [[Iran]] before it declared an Islamic Republic in 1979, the doctrine of Islam was their [[Shia Islam|Shiites]] and not the [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] sect in Iran.[[File:Origin Of Balush (Author Majid Al Abasi).webm|thumb|'''(English Caption) :''' Origin Of Balush (Author : Majid Al Abasi)]]

After a period of time, control over the Makran lands was restored, including the Makran coast, which was under The British colonization after a short period until the year (1928) AD.

Makran was annexed with the Persian state under the Persian Empire.

Later it was annexed with Pakistan.<ref name=":12" />

==People==
; [[File:H.H. Sheikh Ahmed Al Mahmoud Al Balushi, In 1960..jpg|thumb|H.H. Sheikh [[Ahmed Bin Mahmoud Al Blooshi|Ahmed Al Mahmoud Al-Blooshi]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=وفاة أحمد محمود البلوشي السكرتير الخاص للشيخ زايد لـ 40 سنة |url=https://www.alkhaleej.ae/2021-03-02/وفاة-أحمد-محمود-البلوشي-السكرتير-الخاص-للشيخ-زايد-لـ-40-سنة/محليات/أخبار-الدار|access-date=2024-02-29 |website=صحيفة الخليج |language=ar}}</ref> First Private Secretary to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.]]Sportspeople
* [[Ali Al-Balochi|Ali Al-Baloshi]], Emirati footballer
*[[Ali Al-Baluchi|Ali Al-Balushi]], Kuwaiti boxer
*[[Ali Mohamed Al-Balooshi]], Emirati middle-distance runner
*[[Ayesha Al-Balooshi]], Emirati weightlifter
*[[Azan Al-Balushi]], Omani footballer
* [[Hamed Al-Balushi]], Omani footballer
* [[Hamed Al-Balushi]], Omani footballer
* [[Issa Ali Al-Bloushi]], Emirati footballer
* [[Issa Ali Al-Bloushi]], Emirati footballer
* [[Jamal Nabi Al-Balushi]], Omani footballer
* [[Jamal Nabi Al-Balushi]], Omani footballer
*[[Khalid Abdulla Al-Balochi|Khalid Abdulla Al-Baloshi]], Emirati footballer
*[[Khalid Al-Balochi (footballer, born 1999)|Khalid Al-Baloshi]], Emirati footballer
*[[Hamad Al-Balochi|Hamad Al-Baloshi]], Emirati footballer
*[[Mansoor Al-Balochi|Mansoor Al-Baloshi]], Emirati footballer
* [[Mohammed Al-Balushi]], Omani footballer
* [[Mohammed Al-Balushi]], Omani footballer
* [[Muheeb Al-Balushi]], Omani footballer
* [[Muheeb Al-Balushi]], Omani footballer
* [[Rayan Al-Bloushi]], Saudi Arabian footballer
* [[Talal Al-Bloushi]], Qatari footballer
* [[Talal Al-Bloushi]], Qatari footballer
*[[Wadha Al-Balushi]], Omani sports shooter

*[[Walid Abbas|Walid Abbas Al Balushi]], Emirati footballer
; Politicians
*[[Yaqoub Al-Balochi|Yaqoub Al-Baloshi]], Emirati footballer
* [[Nasser Al Balushi]], Bahraini Former Ambassador to the United States
* [[Fatima Al Balushi]], Bahrain's Former Minister of Social Development


; Miscellaneous
; Miscellaneous
* [[Mai Al Balushi]], Kuwaiti actress
* [[Ammar al-Baluchi|Ammar al-Balushi]], prisoner at Guantanamo Bay detention camp
* [[Salah Abdul Rasool Al Blooshi]], Bahraini [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp|Guantanamo]] detainee
*[[Fatima bint Mohammed Al Balooshi]], Bahraini politician
*[[Mai Al Balushi]], Kuwaiti actress

*Salama Bint Rashid Al Balushi<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-02-11 |title=The Folk Tale |url=https://abudhabiculture.ae/en/heritage-records/traditions-and-oral-expressions/the-folk-tale |access-date=2024-03-17 |website=Abu Dhabi Culture |language=en}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[Salah Abdul Rasool Al Blooshi]], Bahraini Guantanamo detainee
* [[Baloch people in the United Arab Emirates]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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Al-Balush
البلوش
Branch of (Al-Zaffa Clan) Arab tribe
Al Ain City, United Arab Emirates
A Photo Of Arab Bloosh's In Wedding United Arab Emirates.
EthnicityArab
LocationLevant - Balqa - (Shinas) Oman
Descended from(Qahtan), Hijaz
LanguageArabic
ReligionIslam
SurnamesAl-Balushi, Al-Baloushi, Al-Balooshi, Al-Bloushi, Al-Blushi, Al-Blooshi

Al-Balush (Arabic: البلوش); singular Al-Balushi (Arabic: البلوشي) from the word (Al-Balush).[1][2][3] One of the Arab tribes of Levant,[4][5][6][7] Members from the tribe are commonly found in those areas, Persian Gulf region, Countries of the Levant. particularly Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Palestine, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco. People carrying this surname trace their tribal origins to Al-Zaffa clan and the origins of Al-Zaffa clan are from the Al-Ahamdah clan.[2][4] and branched out in the countries of the Levant, after a migration from Hijaz (Yemen) to the Levant, and they became of Levant origin, and their lineage is from the Hijaz (Yemen),[8][5][9][10][11] However, there are some of them whose ancestors trace their tribal origins from Coast of Makran during, the migrations from Sultanate Of Oman to Coasts of Makran in late of medieval ages and before 19th Century, are (Omani origin).[12][13]

They are a part of The Bedouins.[5] The Al Balushi speak Arabic, however some of them use Balochi or Persian, and they are (very-few), For persons who pretended to be from the Tribe or influenced by other cultures and languages, likely Baloch ethnic, learned from others, But it has no connection to the tribe, only a similarity of names.[14][15][16] They are mainly Sunni Muslims. They are a populous tribe in Oman, UAE, the Kuwait and Bahrain.[17]

The beginning of the Tribe

Zaffa Clan Map in Levant Circled in Red (in Arabic).
List of Tribes in United Arab Emirates & Sultanate Of Oman, as Listed (Balush) Tribe in the East(in The Sultanate Of Oman).
Sur Al Balush, In Shinas State, Sultanate of Oman.[13]
An old photograph belonging to members of the Bedouin Arab Balush tribe in the desert of the coast of Makran.

One of the Arab[18] Bedouin tribes traveling in the desert they migrated from Hijaz (Yemen) to the Levant, from the main branches of the (Al-Ahmada) and branched from the Zaffa clan[4] in the Levant, and later the majority of them left to (Yemen), then (Sultanate of Oman), then to Coasts Of Makran (It was a part of the Sultanate of Oman),[16] then back to (Sultanate of Oman).

The estimated date of a migration from Coasts Of Makran to Sultanate Of Oman is (16 - 19th) Century.

Origin of the Tribe name

The Word balshh (Arabic: بلشه)[19] means (Trouble) in Arabic, a word has been used In the colloquial dialect of the Levant countries, after the tribe migrated from Hijaz to the Levant, and the origin of the word is due to the fact that that word was used because other tribes felt in Trouble when trying to wage wars with them.

Then named (Balush), Later (Al-Balush).

While some writers referred the naming of the tribe is back to Ottoman rule:[20] The word (Balush) means courage[21] in Turkish origin, and the origin of the word dates back to the periods of Ottoman rule over the branches of the Arab tribes in Levant,[10] and their influence on the tribe (naming).

Tribal lineage

A letter from the General Authority for Antiquities and Book Houses in the Yemen Arab Republic about the Arab tribe, Al-Balush.

Billy bin Amr bin Al-Haf bin Qud'a'ah bin Malik bin Hamir bin Saba bin Yashjeb bin Yarub Al-Qahtani (Al-Azdi).[8][4][10][15][22][23][24][11]

Similarity of Names

The beginning of the Balush tribe is that they branched off from the ancient Yemeni Azd tribes, although at that time they were not the ethnicity that some call them (Baloch).

Then they migrated from Hijaz (Yemen), in a date estimated before the (medieval) period to the Levant countries[6][11] then Yemen in (medieval) period, then Sultanate of Oman, then finally coast of Majan[25][26] (now Makran).

The Persians took the word (Balush) "from (Al Balush) Arab tribe" and turned it into (Blwj) then (Baloch) to establish a previously unknown ethnicity of Persian origins who came from somewhere in North East (Zabulistan) to (Sistan) lands, while (Sistan) has been set as a part of Makran by Portuguese during the Portuguese colonization in the (16th century) after the Portuguese colonization, which led to the expansion of Magan and they changed it from Magan to Makran during the colonial period.

Sistan is the original name before Balochistan land.

Until the British colonization in (1812) AD, these regions were ruled separately, so that after the Portuguese were expelled from the lands of Makran, the Persian Empire took control of the lands of Sistan, and it was separated from Makran, and Sistan became under independent rule by the Persian Empire.

There is a difference[27] linguistically, culturally, in lineage, and origins between the Balush of Makran[27] at that time. They migrated from the south of the Arabian Peninsula to the coasts of Majan and Majan under the Omani rule over them (which is Makran today). They were originally from branches of Al-Zaffa Clan.[4][12]

As for the Baloch who came from Sistan, who are known today as (Baloch of Balochestan), they are from Sistan of Persian origins, and they came with a language, dialects, and cultures dating back to Persian and Urdu, And they doesn’t relate to the tribe with any relationship, the lineage or anything in the Arab Balush tribe,[9] only the similarity of names between the (Baloch) ethnicity and the (Balush) tribe.[16]

This proves that their origins from Al-Balqawia[2][28][29] that the Arab[30] Balush in Makran (who migrated from Sultanate of Oman) is based on the Sunni-Hanafi-Shafi'i[31] doctrine and not as some claim to be Persians, although Iran before it declared an Islamic Republic in 1979, the doctrine of Islam was their Shiites and not the Sunni sect in Iran.

(English Caption) : Origin Of Balush (Author : Majid Al Abasi)

After a period of time, control over the Makran lands was restored, including the Makran coast, which was under The British colonization after a short period until the year (1928) AD.

Makran was annexed with the Persian state under the Persian Empire.

Later it was annexed with Pakistan.[16]

People

H.H. Sheikh Ahmed Al Mahmoud Al-Blooshi,[32] First Private Secretary to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
Sportspeople
Miscellaneous

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