Misplaced Pages

Al-Shaitat

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
(Redirected from Al Sheitaat)
al-Shaitat
الشُّعَيْطَاتُ
Flag of al-Shaitat (unofficial)
EthnicityArab
LocationUpper Euphrates river basin
(mainly Deir ez-Zor Governorate)
Population70,000–90,000
LanguageArabic

Al-Shaitat (Arabic: الشُّعَيْطَاتُ, romanized: aš-Šuʿayṭāt), in Standard Arabic al-Shuʿaytāt, is a Sunni Arab clan which lives in the Deir ez-Zor Governorate in eastern Syria. Its members number between 70,000 and 90,000 and it is led by Sheikh Rafaa Aakla al-Raju. Henry Field identified the Shaitat as a clan of the Aqaidat. They were the target of the Al-Shaitat massacres committed by the Islamic State in 2014.

See also

References

  1. Toddler 'Pulled From Bomb Rubble In Syria', news.sky.com.
  2. Massacre And Media: ISIS And The Case Of The Sunni Arab Shaitat Tribe, Alberto M. Fernández, MEMRI, June 23, 2015
  3. Field, Henry (1940). The Anthropology of Iraq. The Upper Euphrates. Chicago Field Museum. p. 225.
Categories: