Mutayr

The Mutayr were a Sunni Bedouin tribe of central Arabia, traditionally nomadic camel herders. Their ancestral homeland lay in the northern Hejaz highlands between Mecca and Medina.

In the seventeenth century they began migrating east into the Najd. During the eighteenth century they fought the Anazzah for central Arabian pastures, eventually driving that confederation north toward the Syrian desert. They also competed with the Utaybah, another tribe moving into the region from the Hejaz.