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Al-Harm
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The Al-Harm or Al-Haram are a Bedouin tribe of Saudi Arabia, one of the Huwala, Sunni Arabs who migrated to Persia (now Iran). An Al-Haram myth of origin asserts that they were originally protectors of the Kaaba in the Sacred Mosque or Masjid al-Haram in Mecca. Jane Hathaway writes that the Haram are presented (but not explicitly stated) in Arab chronicles as a Bedouin tribal group, opposed to the Sa'd faction. The tribe "evidently had a lengthy presence in Yemen", as "pre-Islamic inscriptions in the south Arabian language refer to a H-R-MM". According to Hathaway, the mediaeval Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta (1304-1377) reports that the 'Banu Haram' people lived in Hali in the north of Yemen. Similarly, Hathaway writes that Yahya b. al-Husayn reports that the Jabal Haram (the mountains of the Haram people) in northern Yemen "submitted to the Zaydi imam in the late thirteenth century". Sultan Bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi writes that in 1760, soldiers "fled to Qishm to seek assistance from Shaikh Rahmah and the Al Haram tribe" on the Persian coast. Bibliography * Hathaway, Jane. Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen. SUNY Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0791458846 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id_03VpUdBydIC&pgPA63&lpgPA63&dq%22al+haram%22+tribe&sourcebl&otsrtv7sWdxL3&sigHFhwBIkyWxpY-Qky_aQKUwWE7K8&hlen&saX&eiNMUFT7f3PMLssgbytJyDDw&ved=0CF8Q6AEwCA#vonepage&q%22al%20haram%22%20tribe&f=false Google Books] * Al-Qasimi, Sultan Bin Muhammad. Power Struggles and Trade in the Gulf: 1620-1820. University of Exeter Press, 1999. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?idsW4fr1KTn_0C&pgPA46&lpgPA46&dq%22al+haram+tribe%22&sourcebl&otsGEy2JPLxTy&sig4W7l9t3dhg1DFllATZHbiOIz2ps&hlen&saX&eiic8FT-OkJ4O8-Qb6l-nGCw&ved=0CE4Q6AEwBg#vonepage&q%22al%20haram%20tribe%22&f=false Google Books] 
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