Al-Kandari

The Al Kandari is a family name in Kuwait. While not the same as more coherent clans or families in the region who come from a single main branch, they are made up of loosely connected families. Each Kandari family may have different grandfathers, but all have to come to Kuwait at similar times. The family took the name after some of the first members who came to Kuwait who were working as "kanadra" or water carriers in Kuwait. Therefore, the Al Kandari are simply a sizable Kuwaiti family with various sub-families, not all related to each other. They are mainly composed of Sunni Muslim Arab ancestry from hundreds of years ago that immigrated to south Iran after the Islamic conquests or searching for a better living.

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