House of Al Khan

The House of Al Khan (Arabic: الخان transliteration: ÅĹ Κнăṇ) can also be written al-khan. The Sons of Ahmed Al Khan of Ad Dammam, Saudi Arabia are Mohammed, Hasan, Abdulrahman, Ali, and Abdullah, moved from Bahrain to Ad Dammam in the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia in 1923.

= History =

Early History

The Sons of Ahmed Al Khan is an Abbasid Noble family, descended from `Abbas ibn `Abd al-Muttalib, through his son `Abd Allah ibn `Abbas, through the great Aaron the Upright ( transliteration:Harun al-Rashid) who was the fifth and most famous Abbasid Caliph, ruler of the Abbasid Empire, and the founder of The House of Wisdom(Arabic: بيت الحكمة; Bait al-Hikma). When Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid was sacked by the Mongol in the is famous Battle of Baghdad on (February 10, 1258), causing great loss of life. Muslims feared that supernatural disaster would strike if the blood of Al-Musta'sim, the last reigning Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad, a direct descendent of Muhammad's uncle, was spilled. Despite the advice of the Learned Shiites of Persia that no such calamity had happened after the deaths of John the Baptist, Jesus Christ, or the Shiite saint Hosein, as a precaution, Hulagu had Al-Musta'sim wrapped in a carpet and then trodden to death by horses on February 20, 1258. The Al-Musta'sim family was also executed, with the lone exceptions of his youngest son and a daughter who were sent to Mongolia to be slaves in the harem of Hulagu.

The Abbasid in Bastak

Later in 1200, the surviving son of Al-Musta'sim, moved to Bastak, South Persia, where Bastak and many other small Sunni villeges pledged loyalty to the Abbasid. The rulers of Shiraz at the time, the Atabak, gave him protection to pass through their lands as he escaped from the Moghols. Later on the Abbasids took permission from Atabak to establish a state of their own and rule Bastak and the surrounding villages and islands. It was said that a few Hashimites (descendants of Prophet Mohammed) moved to Bastak from Khonj where they had settled after leaving Iraq towards Persia. The Abbasids carried on the expansion of Bastak's rule until it included more than 60 villages and many islands in the Gulf. Many alliances were formed between the Bastaki rulers and the Arab rulers The title Abbasid was changed to Khan (title) (Persian: خان , Arabic: الحاكم), a Persian translation for a sovereign or military ruler, and also has equivalent meanings such as commander or leader. Al Khan are also called Bastakis, from Bastak.

Late History

During the late 1880, the Shiite power grew fast and strong in Persia, which made them attack the Sunni villeges and force high taxes on utilities, education, and trade in a strong wave to turn Persia to a Shiite nation. Ahmed Bastaki Al khan, The founder of the late Al Khan House in Saudi Arabia, who was born in Bastak emigrated to Bahrain as many Bastaki people emigrated to Dubai, and Kuwait in groups of people that are now called Arab Faris (Huwala) after refusing to pay taxes to Nasir al-Din, the last member of the Qajar dynasty and refusing to give up their Sunni faith, also because the discrimination they got as Arabs from east South Asians.

In 1923 The Sons of Ahmed Al Khan emigrated from Bahrain to the east coast of Saudi Arabia with friends, cousins, and different Arab Faris families (Huwala) and Al Dossary families (Dawasir) that they lived side by side with in Bahrain, under the leadership of Shikh Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Dossary, due to the the British Empire colonization of Bahrain, when the great late king King Ibn Saud the founder of modern Saudi Arabia welcomed them to live on the Saudi land. Then it was the birth of the cities of Dammam, Khobar, and the modern Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia.

= The Huwala, Arab Faris =

There are many Bastakis among Huwala in who have carried their unique Persian culture, language, and architecture with them. They have named their neighbourhood in Dubai, Bastakeyah, after their small city of Bastak in southern Persia, and use an old Persian style of cooling architecture that is represented in the Badgir ("wind catchers") that direct the wind into the houses and cool the interior of the houses, a very common style throughout the city of Yazd. Bastaki people speak a local Persian dialect that is made up of Middle Persian, and has less borrowed words from Arabic than the Modern Persian language used today in Iran. Many Bastakis today work as merchants and own their own businesses and are highly educated. They tend to work in finance, real estate, education and engineering sectors. Not to mention the many medical practices which they run. They are also known to be a very proud of their Persian heritage which they preserved even though they live for many years in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. And are known to be independent yet very loyal, loving, and greatful to their rulers, to Al-Saud in Saudi Arabia, to Al-Maktoums in Dubai, Al-Qassimi in Al-Sharjah, Al-Khalifa in Bahrain, and to other ruling families of the Arab states of the Persian Gulf where they reside.

= Al Khan Family Today =

Today, There are over five hundred members of the sons and daughters of Ahmed Alkhan, mostly in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, but also in the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, Sons and daughters of Mohammed, Hasan, Abdulrahman, Ali, and Abdullah al Khan includes many families of Arab Faris such as, Amin, Sidigi, khori, Askar, Al Abdulwahed, and Al kooheji, and those who are not Arab Faris such as, Al Dossary, Al shihri, Al otaibi, Hammad, Almani, bin masood, and many more.