About Al Khamsa Inc

Al Khamsa Inc., is a not-for-profit organization devoted to the preservation of the horse of Bedouin Arabia, as recognized by Al Khamsa, through education and research in a non-competitive social climate which draws admirers of such horses together with the interest of fitting the Bedouin horse into western life.

Our work is to study, document, research, find out as much as we can about the Arabian Horse of Bedouin origin as it exists today, or as its descendants exist today in the United States, and then to share this information with others through our various publications, and through our magazine. (Al Khamsa Arabians II 1994)

The purpose of Al Khamsa is to educate the public about Al Khamsa Arabian Horses defined by Al Khamsa so that those horses may be available for future generations. (Al Khamsa by laws 1990)

The horses of primary interest to Al Khamsa, which are called Al Khamsa Arabian Horses, are those horses in North America that can reasonably be assumed to descend entirely from bedouin Arabian horses bred by horse-breeding bedouin tribes of the deserts of the Arabian peninsula without admixture from sources unacceptable to Al Khamsa. Al Khamsa reserves the right to determine which horses are called Al Khamsa Arabian Horses. (Al Khamsa bylaws Amended 9/93)