 | This article is largely based on an article in the out-of-copyright Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, which was produced in 1911.(June 2023) |
The Hawawir are a Sudanese tribe of Semitic and Berber origin, dwelling in the Bayuda Desert, Sudan. They were found along the road from Debba to Khartoum as far as Bir Gamr, and from Ambigol to Wadi Bishhra as well as El-Obeid. The tribe is said to have entered Sudan through the trade moving South from Egypt where many of the tribe called Hawwara remain.
They adopted none of the African customs, such as gashing the cheeks or elaborate hairdressing. They owned large herds of camels, sheep. [1] Members of the tribe include the 19th century judge and Islamic scholar Arabi Ahmed Al-Hawwari who founded the Grand Mosque of El-Obeid and was mentioned in the ‘Letters of Ahmad ibn Idris’ as an Islamic scholar and friend of the sheikh as well as a close companion and student of Mohammed Uthman al-Mirghani al-Khatim.
