Al-Bayati

Al-Bayati (البياتي) is a surname. It is connected to the Iraqi al-Bayat tribe.

The ancestry and ethnicity of the al-Bayat tribe is contentious. The tribe's ancestry is often linked to the Oghuz Turkic Bayat tribe and its ethnicity described as Iraqi Turkmen or Turkish. Other sources however describe it as an Arab tribe or mixed Arab and Kurdish tribe of the Tayy tribal confederacy. The deceased Sheikh Hussein Aloush was ethnically Turkmen. Members of the tribe generally speak Iraqi Arabic and Iraqi Turkmen.

Notable people

 * Abbas al-Bayati, Iraqi Shiite politician
 * Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayati (1926–1999), Iraqi Arab poet
 * Basil Al Bayati (1946), Iraqi architect
 * Mohammed Mahdi al-Bayati (1962), Iraqi politician
 * T. Hamid al Bayati, Iraqi diplomat, academic and author