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Notes to Chapter Tivo
territory of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman), Manaslr (about 1,300
beduin), 'Awainir (uncertain), Ghafalah (about 500 beduin), A1 Bu
Mahair (about 100 beduin), Marar (about 350 beduin), Qawaid (part of
the Mazarf, about 250 beduin), Na’Im (about 1,200 beduin in Trucial
Oman), and Bani Ka'ab (an uncertain number of beduin there) and a few
other small groups of partly Omani tribes; see Lorimer, Geogr., pp.
1432ff.
115 For definition see c.g. Slicfel, Matthias "Dcr Nomadismus als soziookon-
omisches und politisches Entwicklungsproblem, eine allgemeine Ein-
fiihrung" in Seminar iiherdas Nomadentum in Zentralasien, Nov. 1975,
Schlussbericht, Nationale Schweizerische UNESCO-Kommission, Bern,
1976, pp. 5-25.
116 See Trucial States Council. Development Office, Census 1968, Table (d)
mimeograph.
117 For Shamaillyah see Lorimer, Geogr., pp. 1694-9; on Sharqiyln see ibid,
p. 1769.
118 See also about the politics of Fujairah in the Kalba affair below pages
93 f.
119 This is not so in the shaikhdom of 'Ajman, where the ruling family is
from a section of the NaTm who were a minority of about 25 houses
among 80 houses of the A1 Bu Mahair, 12 of the Sudan, 14 of the A1 Bu
Kalbi and others.
120 See Lorimer, Geogr., p. 62. and for the following pp. 1936,1858f and 1361
for articles on the Za’ab, Tanaij and Naqbiyln.
121 See below, Chapter Three, pages 91ff.
122 Lorimer. Geogr., p. 572.
123 At times large numbers of beduin Manaslr, Na’im, 'Awamir, and even
Bani Yas appeared in the northern territories and played a role in local
politics there, but sooner or later they always went back to the sands or
the Buraimi area.
124 The minor tribes not mentioned so far but listed in both Lorimer, Geogr.,
pp. 1391-411 or 1432-6 as well as in the 1968 census, are the Biduwat of
Hajarain and Masfut, the Dahaminah of Wadi Qur in Ra’s al Khaimah.
the Dababihah in Sharjah territory, the Omani tribe Bani Jabir. which
has a few families in the UAE, the Maharizah of Masafi, the Masafarah
(or Mashafirah) of Sharjah town with a beduin section east of the Jiri
plain and the Shaha’irah of Ra’s al Khaimah territory.
The tribes mentioned in Lorimer as belonging to Trucial Oman which
do not figure in the 1968 census are the 'Abadilah of Sharjah town and
Fujairah territory, the already then practically extinct 'Awanat, the
Baharinah in Dubai and Abu Dhabi town, the Bani Hamad living in the
wadis behind Khaur Fakkan, the Jalajilah of Shamaillyah and Wadi
Qur, now forming part of the Sharqiyln, the Maharah who may have
merged with the Za’ab, the Matarfsh of Sharjah town, the Bani Shamaili
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