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APPENDIX O TO PART II.
Tribes of Nejd.
To express tbe gradations of classification and division from the
• Koto 1. Arab nation collectively to a single
(2.) Jatuliur. li KjfftSU
(1.) Jidthra.
(3.) Slia’b.
(4.) Knbflab. (9.) Fnsflnb. rendering accurately in English eaui-
(5.) *Auiarob. (10.) Itabt valenls. The fourth gradation Kahilah
According to the old clarification— (pi. Kabdil) is now Liken as describing
’Adndn stock—Jidthra.
Tribes of Ma’ndd—Jarabfir. tho great tribes or clans in each pro­
Kizir—Sba*ab. vince of Arabia, Tbe eighth 'Asbirah
Modbar—Kabflah, Ac. (pi. ’Asbair) which was first applied to a
circle of cousins to the fourth remove is now commonly used to describe
the subdivisions of the great tribes, and in the following list the term
a tribe” is supposed to represent “ Kabflah” and sub-tribe “ Ashirah.”
On the great divisions of the Arab race as recognized by Arabian
authorities and the terms employed to
Note 2.
distinguish them.
All the preserved Arabian genealogies are traced back to one of
two ancestors, either to Kaht£n or to 'Adndn. Ma’add was the son
of 'Adnan, so that the term Ma’addite is included in that of 'Adninite,
'Adndn being accounted a descendant of Ishmacl, this division of Arabian
families is commonly called Ismd'flite. The Prophet Mohammed belong­
ed to this stock, and was of the twenty-second generation from 'Adnan,
whose period is placed at about 300 B.C.
The great rival division consists of the Arabs of Yemen descended
from Kahtan, and these are designated Yemenite Arabs. Kahtan. is
often supposed to be identical with Joktan of Genesis, but the period
of tbe latter must have been fully 2,000 years B.C., whilst the Arabs
calculate this Kahtan to have lived 400 years before 'Aduin, or in B.C.
700, leaving a discrepancy of 1,300 years. Kabt£u is by eome Arabic
historians asserted to be descended from IsbraaeL Arabian historians
employ four terms- in classifying tbe various Arab stocks, and are
not in accord in the application of those terms. They are
El-'Arab El-Bddiyeh.
• Also. ETAnVol-’Arbf. „ „ El-Aribeh.*
M -’Aribat and *Ar»-
biyyeb. „ El-Mota* Arribeh.
Also, El’Arab’ul-’Aribah. n „ El-Mosta’ribeh.
Those who spoke tbe language of The terms Aribeh and Mota* Arribeh
i a Arub-ibn-Kabtan. Lano considers
the moat probable deriVatioD of Ar»b
U from an Old nebrow word meaning Kahtamte stock, Mostanbch being
mixed people.” which the Arab# applied to tbe Ishmaclites. These divi-
***** themsclvc* to have been almost -vl. flre sometimes designated re-
frotn the first; and in favour of this fn0n® , Ur « Mmmrfn and
derivation, citca tbe fact that tbe old Spectivefy P t S® . -ntj c<r__
Himjcritic language agree* more in iU il naturalized Ar*b8. Abui-rcaa ®syi,
vocabulary with tbe Hebrew and Pb«- historians divide the Arabs into three
SeaAiiJStWiUl**“m0dcr"“4cU*’ classes: (1) BSdiyeh, (2)’Ariboh, and
(8) Mosta’ribeh. The first were the
lost tribes of Ad, Thamud, and Jorham the elder, who were destroyed
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