The name Al-Tahawiyah is currently associated with the names of the horses: Fella, Fitna and Bint Barakat, and they are the three founding mare of Hamdan stables, whose production spread after that.
Any horse you return to is internationally recognized. Ahmed Pasha Hamza was a lover of Al-Asayel, and he took from Al-Tahawiyah three foals from the sons of the horse Barakat bin Al-Dahma Al-Shahwaniyah, and his father Dahman the Great, Sheikh Abdullah bin Saud Al-Tahawi bought it from Sheikh Jadaan bin Mahid Al-Kabeer from the sheikhs of the Anza tribe in Najd.
Ahmed Pasha entered the three foals into his breeding program, and only the three foals registered in WAHO, and the three foals became the nucleus of the Tahawy horse formation, and its breeders: Al-Saqlawiyah Al-Jarari (Bint Barakat), Al-Shuwayma Al-Sabiha (Fella), and Al-Kahila Al-Khalawia (Fitna).
When reading books that dealt with horses, we find that everyone who wrote about horses in Egypt mentioned al-Tahawiyya, such as Lady Anne Blunt, Judy Forbes and Prince Muhammad Ali Tawfiq.
Prince Muhammad Ali Tawfiq al-Tahawiya described in his book “Horse Breeding in Egypt,” saying: “We do not fail in the context of talking about horses to mention that some Bedouin tribes in Egypt have worked a lot for racing and hunting, and these Arabs are the “Tahawiyya” in the adjacent Salhia region. And the heads of this tribe are people of good character and good dress, to whom the term “gentleman” fits, and they are undisturbed knights who love horses, and they have good examples of them. Their horses do not win the races in Egypt and Alexandria, and I feel that I owe a small word of praise to these people, because whoever loves horses and loves sports appreciates everything they do to preserve the qualities and glory of Arabs and Arabian horses.”
Prince Muhammad Ali Tawfiq al-Tahawiya mentioned in the second part of his book “Horse Breeding in Egypt”, as evidence of the importance of horse training, the qualities that a horse acquires from training, and the change that occurs in the body and structures, where he said: “The evidence for this is that my son-in-law Prince Kamal al-Din He sent a one-year-old horse to the Al-Tahawiyah tribe, so that a young boy could ride it and hunt deer on it in the desert, and its food was European oats.
Abbas Pasha I’s relationship with Tahawiya
Abbas Pasha I had a close relationship with the Al-Tahawiyah tribe, as it was stated in the book “Letters of Orders” Order No. 19 of 1266 AH “The manual saddle for my riding is not compatible with my horse. The collector is at your side, so that you may see with your own eyes how they made it, so the hope is that you will order to make the saddle again, so that it is compatible with the horse, and send it to our side as soon as it is required.”
Who are the Tahawiyah?
The Tahawiyya now live in the form of hamlets named after their ancestors in the Sharkia Governorate in the centers of Belbeis, Abu Hammad and the Husseinieh Center for more than a century, and this led to the preservation of many of their Bedouin heritage, such as falcon hunting and hunting in them, the breeding of purebred Arabian horses and many of the authentic Bedouin customs and traditions. . Judy Forbes mentioned in her book that “Al-Tahawiya in the sixties” owned about three thousand heads of purebred Arabian horses, and only three mares were recorded.
The Royal Agricultural Society used other Tahawiyah horses, such as Sabbah, Nasr, Jamal al-Din, Haroun, and the mare “Rima” recorded by engineer Sayed Maree. And also one of the important mare and mother of many heroes around the world, the Persians are well known. Such horses were recently revealed through joint research by some members of Al-Tahawiyah in cooperation with international researchers.
When reading books that dealt with horses, we find Lady Anne Blunt in her talk about the Tahawiyyah horses, her dealings with them, and her visit to them in 1887. She spoke about this visit in detail in her memoirs deposited at the British Library in London, where she said in her memoirs:
The horse is a swimmer, owned by Prince Ahmed Pasha Kamal Abu al-Muhr, the son of Jamila, belonging to Lady Blunt, as well as the father of a number of mares founded at al-Zahra, such as Umm Dalal and Nafaa al-Saghir. This horse is the son of the mare, Al-Manqiah Al-Hadrajia (Sabiliya), which Prince Ahmed Pasha Kamal obtained from Al-Tahawiyah.
Judy Forbes and Tahawiya
Mrs. Judy Forbes tells in her book “The Arabian Horse” that she went to visit Al-Tahawiyah with the famous horse literature trainer Ahmed Hegazy, as Al-Tahawiyah made a good reputation in breeding pure Arabian horses until the early forties, but when Sheikh Abdul Hamid Rajeh Al-Tahawy, their most famous breeder, began The interest in racing, their breeding program became concerned with racing; Because racing became the only outlet for selling horses.
Coming to a sandy road lined with palm trees and tall green bushes, we come to an aristocratic figure though old, moving with dignity, dressed in a cloak woven from the finest wool. This old man welcomed us warmly, and offered us tea and coffee, a traditional duty of Arab hospitality. This is how we got acquainted with Sheikh Rajeh El-Tahawy, who was 95 years old, and was the oldest person in the El-Tahawiya family, and he was distinguished by white skin, and the clan gathered on that day, and it was a very friendly meeting.
I asked him many questions about the Arabian horses and about the history of al-Tahawiyya, but his mind was an archive, and he seldom stumbled into an answer.
He showed us the three high-status horses, which are Al-Shuwayma the swimmer, Kahliya Al-Khaliya, and Saqlawiya Jadari. He also had Al-Ubayya Umm Jeries. These breeds have become very rare in the desert. We took a tour of the Tahawiya tribe, and learned about the method of horse breeding and breeding.
