The Nawayath (also spelled as Navayath and Nawayat and also called Nait, Naiti, Naithee and Naita) are an Indian community and a subgroup of Konkani Muslims.
These groups have common origins in Arabia and Yemen and Persian Gulf and Iran and Iraq regions, where they were mariners and merchants.
One group is based mainly in Bhatkal, manki, Tonse, Malpe, Shiroor, Gangolli, Sagar, Kumta, Kandlur and Murdeshwar villages in Karnataka, while another is found in Chennai in Tamil Nadu.
[2] Nawayats are migrants predominantly from Yemen and Persia, who married into another trading community of India, the Jains who had been converted to Islam more than 1,000 years ago.
[5] Saadatullah Khan I, a Nawayat Konkani Muslim was the Nawab of the Carnatic under the Mughal Empire.