Al Qasimi tribe is from the Huwala; groups of Sunni Arabs who migrated from the Eastern coast of the Arabian peninsula and Oman in the 17th and 18th centuries to the Iranian side of the Persian Gulf. Al Qawasim have ruled some of the shores and Islands of Persia that were opposite to U.A.E in different eras between (1100 - 1890). Since the modern state of Iran under the Previous Shah of Iran and his Persian policy of identity especially against those non-Persians, most of the Arabian tribes were exiled out from the ports and villages of Iran, to many GCC countries. This was at the other hand a historical point for the original Huwala were they called it "Returning to the mother land of Arabia" since they were already called "Huwala" which means "people who moved from place to another". Today, the emirs of Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah descend from this tribe.

Current Qasimi rulers

• Sultan bin Mohamed Al-Qasimi, ruler of the emirate of Sharjah, UAE.
• Saqr bin Mohammad al-Qassimi, ruler of the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE.

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