Ḥuwala (Arab tribe)

found: Work cat.: 2002461072: Niʻmah, A. al-Ḥawlah-- al-qabīlah al-ʻĀmirīyah, 2001.

found: Enc. of Islam, 1993:p.777 (Huwala, Arabs long established on the Persian side of the Persian Gulf, some of whom have returned to their original home land.)

found: Lorimer, John Gordon. Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, 1908, via Google Books, Aug. 11, 2015(Hūwalah or Hūlah; sing. Hōli; a class of Sunni Arab found in Bahrain, Hasa, Qatar and Trucial Oman and on the island of Sirri; they are a community who, after being domiciled for years or even generations on the Persian coast of the Gulf, have returned to the Arabian side; many are unable to say from which of the Arab tribes they are descended)