Huwala

The Huwala (also spelled: howala, howila, huwalah) (Arabic: الهولة) meaning "Those that have changed or moved". Originally the "Huwala" word is Arabic, but since Persian does not contain the pharyngeal fricative "ح" present in Arabic, it pronounced it Huwala. Huwala are the descendants of Sunni Arabs who moved from the Arabian Peninsula to Iran, when it was ruled by Arabs, and the word is also mistakenly used to call Sunni Persians who migrated from Persia, or Iran to the Arabian peninsula. The Huwala are much different from the Sunni Persians who also have migrated from their "Original" Homeland "Persia" to Arabia. Except that the two ethnicity share the same Islamic Sunni faith. The Huwala were groups of Sunni Arabs who migrated from the Eastern coast of the Arabian peninsula and Oman in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the Iranian side of the Persian Gulf.