Al-Bayati (Arabic: البياتي, romanized: al-Bayātī) is a surname.
The ancestry and ethnicity of the al-Bayat tribe is contentious.
The tribe's ancestry is often linked to the Oghuz Turkic Bayat tribe [1] and its ethnicity described as Iraqi Turkmen or Turkish.
[2][3][4] Other sources however describe it as an Arab tribe or mixed Arab and Kurdish tribe of the Tayy tribal confederacy.
[4] The deceased Sheikh Hussein Aloush was ethnically Turkmen.