AMARAR (UM 'AR'AR OR BENI 'AMIR), a tribe of African "Arabs" inhabiting the mountainous country on the west side of the Red Sea from Suakin northwards towards E osseir. The tribe is divided into four great families: (I) Weled Gwilei, (2) Weled Aliab, (3) Weled Kurbab Wagadab and (4) the Amarar proper of the Ariab district. They claim to be of Koreish blood.
See Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, edited by Count Gleichen (London, 1905) ; Sir F. R. Wingate, Mandism and the Egyptian Sudan (London, 1891) ; A. H. Keane, Ethnology of Egyptian Sudan (London, 1884) ; H. A. MacMichael, History of the Arabs of the Sudan (1922).