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Umar ibn Awad al-Qu'aiti
Umar ibn Awad al-Qu'aiti was the founder of the fortunes of the Qu'aiti family of Hadramawt in southern Arabia. A Yafa'i tribesman, he rose to high rank as a jamadar, or commander, of the Arab troops of the Nizam of Hyderabad in India. With wealth earned there his family bought land and influence in Hadramawt, taking Shibam and Shihr from around 1858, and his descendants ruled the Qu'aiti Sultanate from Mukalla.
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