List of Ashraf tribes in Libya
Libyan society is composed of several Ashraf tribes. Ashraf refers to someone claiming descent from Muhammad by way of his daughter Fatimah. The word is the plural of sharīf "noble", from sharafa "to be highborn". Ashraf, if pronounced with long ā in the second syllable is the plural of Sharif, but with short a is the intensive of sharīf meaning "very noble", "nobler", "noblest".
List of Libyan Ashraf Tribes(1995), https://archive.is/20120919033536/http://www.saiban.info/vb/showthread.php?t=34648 Tree of Ashraf Tribes in Libya, ''Nasab Newspaper (Morocco)'', p.6.
- Al-Zayadeen - Descendants of Sidi Zaydan and Sidi Ahmed of the Moroccan Alaouites.
- Al-Mazawgha - Descendants of Sidi Amer Al-Mezoghi ; He is considered the progenitor of the tribe in Libya and Tunisia.
- Al-Ghrariyun - Descendants of Sidi Salem.
- Awlad Slayman - Descendants of the Seven Fawatir.
- Gumata - Descendants of Muslim.
- Al-Awasij - Descendants of Sidi Bou-Hmayra.
- Shurafa Waddan - Descendants of Sidi Kolan.
- Qadhadhfa - Descendants of Sidi Mousa.
- Al-Hmaydat and Al-S'afaat - Descendants of Sidi Bou-Hmayda Al-Seqfi.
- Al-'Ajaylat - Descendants of Sidi Mohammed Harakat.
- Al-Taboul - Descendants of Sidi Mohammed Abi Tabl.
- Al-Serara - Descendants of Sidi Ibrahim Ben-Sarar.
- Ashrāf Tribe Sidi Aburad Buzedion
- Ashrāf Tribe Sidi Abdel Rahman Alepeshty Olobashat
- Ashrāf Tribe Sidi spears Al-rmohh
- Ashrāf Tribe Sidi Ahmed Al Murr Ghani Alemragna
- Ashrāf Tribe Sidi Mohammed Faqih Al-Fuqhah
- Ashrāf Tribe Sidi Sayeh Al-Sayāh Alawneh
- Ashrāf Tribe Sidi Abu Salaamah Salamat Begrean
- Ashrāf Tribe Sidi Faraj Bin Hamdan Al Furjan
- Ashrāf Tribe of Sidi al-Qutb Abdullah al-Khattabi
- Ashrāf Tribe of Sidi ‘Amāra Al-Dawadī
- Ashrāf Tribe of Sidi Hamid al-Hudayri.
- Ashrāf Tribe of al-Fawākhir.
- Ashrāf Tribe of Abdel Wahid al-Dukāli.
- Ashrāf Tribe of Sidi Banu Layth and also.
- Ashrāf Tribe of al-Mushāshi: descendants of Moulay Abdel-Salam Meshish. The sub-branches include:
- * Awlad Sidi Haji Abdul Salam bin Hassan bin Omar Mashini
- * Awlad Al-Sharif Al-Haaj Fakhruddin Yahya ibn Nabeul
- * Awlad Mismar ibn Abdel Mawlā
- * Awlad Sidi Haji Mohammad Abdul Nabi al-Asfar, nicknamed Klim al-Tair and Abu Seif
- * Awlad Sidi al-Makashif Abdul Rahman, nicknamed Aldrai.
- * Awlad Sidi Mohamed al-Messaoudi al-Sehdī al-Yahyaoui: ancestor of Awlad as-Saydi and al-Masoudi on the coast of Tripoli.
- Ashrāf tribe of Sidi Abdel Rahman Abu Zubaydah, a descendant of Abdul Qadir Gilani, ancestor of the Zubaydat tribe, the Zirqan of Tarhuna, Krabooli and Yafran.
- Ashrāf tribe of Siy’ān : based in Sbiba, west of Kairouan. Progenitor of the tribe, brother of Sidi Salam Abu Gharra, progenitor of the al-Gharara tribe in Medenine and Gabés.
- Ashrāf tribe of Qutb Sidi Ibrahim al-Mahjoub, ancestor of the Mahajib tribe in Misrata and Sorman.
- Ashrāf Azwaip tribe Brakna.
- Ashrāf tribes of al-Barakinah, al-Muqarana and al-Ziyayinah all share a common ancestor, Sidi Ahmed al-Burkan: based in the Kabylie region of Algeria and Mali.
- Banu Issa : includes Amour and the Dawada ethnic group in southern Libya, as well as the Farjan tribes of Sidi Faraj ibn Hamdan.
- Ashrāf tribe of Al-Tayira, they are Awlad Sidi Abdul Karim: located in Sabratha and Sorman, Menzel Chaker and Oran, Algeria, as well as the Awlad Suleiman al-Tayar in southern Libya.
- Ashrāf tribe of Al-Humāmala: descendants of Sheikh Sidi Muammar, based in Tarhuna and Sidi Ibn Hamāl, based in Sirte.
- Al-Ja’afra tribe who claim descent from Jafar, who hails from Awlad Moulay Abdullah bin Idris and reside in Garyan, Al-Baran and Tripoli.
- Ashrāf tribe of Sidi Moulay Cherif guardian Abu Kassim Abu Shusha: based in Ziltan and they belong to the tribe of Awlad Khuwaylid Balnsfir are descendants of Moulay Abdullah ibn Idris.
- Ashrāf tribe of Bani Badr, descended from Sidi Mohamed Ben Ali who is buried in Ghadames.
- Ashrāf tribe of Oulad al-Sharif, Sidi Ali al-Tishani in Tajura on the coast of Tripoli.
- Ashrāf tribe of Moulay Sidi Sheikh Abdul Karim Nafati.
- Ashrāf tribe of al-Mnaffa, they reside in Butnan, Tobruk, and the Western Sahara. Clan of Sheikh Omar Mukhtar.
- Ashrāf tribe of Almhachc in Jebel Akhdar and Butnan.
- Ashrāf tribe of Sidi Abu Roik in Jebel Akhdar.
- Awlad Sidi Wazzani in Tobruk.
- Ashrāf tribe of Moulay al-Qasim ibn Moulay Idriss: they reside in Darna, having settled there in the middle of the 12th century.
- Ashrāf tribe of Al-Mātiik, they are Zawah, Al-Fassi, Awlad Annan, Awlad Zakaria, Awlad Aoun and Awlad Abad: based in western Libya.
- Ashrāf tribe of al-Mukhalif founded by Sidi Abdallah Abu Gleida, based in Tataouine.
- Ashrāf tribe of al-Makhayif founded by Sidi Makhlouf, reside in Marith, Gabes, and Sorman.
- Ashrāf tribe of An-Na’meon founded by Sharif Ali bin Na’āma: they are sons of the Prophet, Abdul Nabi Al-Frujan Awlad Ali.
- Ashrāf tribe of Al-na’āsa, descendants of Abdel Rahman al-Na’as: reside in Tajura, Tarhuna and Tripoli.
- Ashrāf tribe of Shaqārina descendants of Mohamed Abu Dabbous in Gharyan.
- Ashrāf tribe of Alamarion descendants of Ali al-Amari.
- Ashrāf tribe of Shabab of Ghayran, Rahiban, Ifrane and Fassato descendants of Mohamed Ben Salem, based in baldat al-Jūsh, Libya.
- Ashrāf tribe of ar-Rajban, descendants of Sidi Ahmed al-Rajban: based in the town of Ar-Rajban.
- Tribe of al-Shida and Awlad Sidi Youssef of Zawiya, Al Maya and Tuwaybiyah: descendants of Sidi Mahfouz ibn Sidi Abbas al-Mulilā al-Maghribi.
- Ashrāf tribe of Sidi Abu Saīd descendants of Sidi Ahmed Abī al-Afrān, based in Al Maya.
- Ashrāf tribe of Sidi Najm, based east of Benghazi.
- Ashrāf tribe of Aljdua, descendants of Sharif Sidi Youssef Al-Jarani from Msallata.
- Ashrāf tribe of Awassi of Tarhuna: founded by Sharif Abdel Mawla ibn Isa.
- Ashrāf tribe of Al-Kawanīn descendants of Sidi Ibrahim Al-Sharaf: Tarhuna and Tripoli.