Shuweyman Sabbah

The strain of Shuweymah Sabbah is called Shweimeh Sabbah in Syria. According to Dr. Hazaim from Syria it is a famous and high regarded strain and originated with as-Sabbah of the Fudul Bedouin, a branch of the Tai. Also the Abbas Pasha Manuscript is confirming this origin. And it renders the additional information that horses of this strain also went to Beni Sakhr, al-Dafeer, as-Sb´a and al-Rwala (al-Kawakibah) and the Shammar. Lady Blunt tells us that Sheikh Fares Al Jerba was riding a mare of this strain when she met him, and the al Jerba marbat is still being bred in Syria today, for example from the stock of Mashaal Pasha/Mishaal ibn Faris al-Jarba, sheikh of the western Shammar in Syria (Al Dahdah). At Hail at the stud of Emir Mohammed al Rasheed the Blunts saw a Shueyman as Sabbah stallion who was the best of the eight stallions of the Emir.