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Notes to Chapter Two

who became pari of the Shihuh, Ihe Shaqush of 'Ajman, a section of the
Bani Ma'fn of Qishim Island, and Ihe Zahum of Wadi Ham, al so now
part of the SharqiyTn.
Others such as the Al Bu Amin, Dahailat, Halalmah and Thamairat
are now counted as subsections of the Bani Yas (see above, footnote 21).
Two tribes which are mentioned in table (d) of the census of the six
northern Trucial States as well as in the table for Abu Dhabi but do not
figure in the Gazetteer are the Ahbab and the Najadal (see above,
footnote 55).
125 Dostal, Waller “The Shihuh of Northern Oman: A contribution to
cultural Ecology” in Geographical Journal, vol. 138, Pt I, March 1972, pp.
1-8. Bertram Thomas. Financial Adviser to the Sultan in Muscat from
1925 to 1931, dedicated much time and effort to the study of the tribes of
south-eastern Arabia, not least of the Shihuh; see e.g. Thomas, Bertram
“The Kumzari dialect of the Shihuh tribe of Arabia, and a vocabulary"
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1930 p. 785-854; and “The
Musandam Peninsula and its people—the Shihuh” in Journal of the
Bombay Central Asiatic Society, 1929. In 1902 Major P.Z. Cox, the
Political Agent in Muscat, was able to collect some first-hand in­
formation on the tribal population inhabiting Ru’us al Jibal.
The differences in behaviour, language, and to some degree the
practice of religion are obvious enough to be widely reported among the
other tribal population of eastern Arabia; the erroneous belief is
widespread that the Shihuh are descendants of the Portuguese.
126 See Caskel, Werner, Gamharal an-Nasab, Das genealogishce Wcrk des
Hisam Muhammad al-Kalbl 2 vols, I, p. 41, Leiden, 1966.
127 Lorimer, Geogr., pp. 1805-10. His estimate of 7,000 nomad Shihuh
belonging to the interior is being pul forward with doubt, and, indeed,
some of the people who move up to the mountains only in the winter may
have been counted twice.
128 According to Dostal the former settlement is called bulaidah and the
larger one harah.
129 In the vicinity of Dibah and elsewhere on the east coast such musaif are
often folded together and left as a compact tent-like shape which can
withstand storms much better than the ordinary barasti when empty for
several months.
130 Dostal (p. 5) recounts that out of twenty-eight men in one particular
settlement only five did not marry their bint 'amm, that is the daughter
of the paternal uncle.
131 During the 1968 census 6,030 Shihuh, Habus and Dhahuriyln were
counted. 5.845 of whom lived in Ra’s al Khaimah territory.
132 See below, pages 273ff.
133 Lorimer, Hislor., p. 623, Annexure no. 3: History of Ru’us Al-Jibal.

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