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Notes lo Chapter Two

Shaikh Shakhbul and Shaikh Zayid in the Jabal al Dhannah area from
1962; he became chairman of the National Assembly of Abu Dhabi in
1971.
46 For details see below, pages 116f.
47 “Five thousand Jirabs of dates worth Si per Jirab, rendered as tribute by
the Dhawahir of the Buraimi Oasis (S5.000). Lucerne supplied by the
same Dhawahir for 100 tribal horses maintained by the Shaikh in the
Baraimi Oasis (S3,000)." Lorimer, Geogr., p. 409. A jirab is a measure of
weight used for purposes of taxation. In the 1950s a LTwa jirab was
about 180lb; a Buraimi jirab was less than half because the production
of dates was so much easier there.
48 Thesiger, Wilfred, Arabian Sands. London, 1959, p. 53f and map p. 55.
Wilkinson, Water, describes in some detail on pp. 195-7 how the
’Awamir came to Oman, became assimilated and in some cases settled.
He sums up: "So it can be seen that the history of the 'Awamir migration
into Oman covers roughly half a millennium, and it is for this reason
that its sub-groups are widely dispersed and range from one of the
wildest bedu groups who inhabit the outer sand desert of the Dhahira
but have as yet not established an exclusive dar there, lo the falaj
experts who inhabit the collection of villages between the Jawf and
Sharqiya called the Buldan 'Awamir" (p. 196).
49 Lorimer, Geogr.. pp. 186-8, and Thesiger, “Desert Borderlands of Oman"
in Geographical Journal, CXVI, December 1950, pp. 137-71.
50 See below, page 42, and footnote 57; see also UK Memorial I, p. 22, and
Bombay Selections, vol. XXIV, pp. 16-17, reprinted in UK Memorial II,
Annex C, no. 5, p. 128. He gained the impression that Bani Yas, Manaslr,
and 'Awamir were sub-sections of one tribe.
51 See below, pages 302ff, and Kelly, Eastern, p. 44ff, and UK Memorial I, p.
59, and II, p. 319ff.
52 See Lorimer, Geogr., p. 187. Thesiger used an 'Afar guide because unlike
the 'Awamir, the 'Afar were accepted as guides through Duru' territory.
See Thesiger, Arabian Sands, p. 137.
53 See ibid.
54 Arabian Sands, p. 54. This tribal name is not to be confused with the
Rawashid, a subtribe of the Bani Yas. See Kelly, Eastern, p. 37 footnote.
55 See the anthropological study of this tribe by Donald Powell Cole,
Nomads of the Nomads: The Al Murrah Beduin of the Empty Quarter,
AHM Publishing Corporation, Arlington, 1975. Another tribe who
frequented Abu Dhabi territory are the Ahbab from Najd. A group of
about 60 families eventually stayed for good early this century and
made their home in the foothills of Jabal Haflt. recognising the Ruler of
Abu Dhabi’s authority. During the 1968 census 319 Al?bab were
counted. The Najadat were originally part of the Na'Im, they live in some
of the villages of the Buraimi oasis and in the nearby plain of al Jau;

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