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NORTHERN TRIBES 59

5. The Humeidah.
The dim of the HUMEIDAH lies round Dhiban. It is bounded
on the south-west by Khirbat Sarfa and the Wadi Beni Hammad ; |
!,u the west by the Dead Sea ; on the north by the Zerqa valley,
Uareijimah and Duleilah, and on the cast by Unirn Shureif, ‘Ara'ir,
aud*the Wadi Mojib. It extends, therefore, from 7 miles north of
Ivcrak to 4 miles south of Madeba, a distance of about 28 miles,
and is about 17 miles from west to east. The tribe, which had an
evil reputation tor unru[iness and violence, has, since the occupation
of Kcrak by the Ottoman Government some twenty years ago, been
reduced to complete submission and almost ruined by exactions.
It pays £T 3,000 in taxes. The mudir of Walah was specially appointed
to take charge of the 'Humeidah. They number about 700 tents,
and claim descent from a common ancestor called Fadhil, who
canfe into the Dead Sea region with Sakhr, the jidd of the Sukhur.
For this reason they recognize a distant kinship between themselves
and.the Beni Sakhr. They are sheep-breeders, and grow crops in
(he fertile Kurah district. Some of the Beni Tarif are to be found
at Kerak, and there are about 30 houses of Humeidah at Buseirah,
east of TaSls.h, under Sheikh Salim ibn Masyughah.

HUMEIDAH
Tribe. Sub-Tribe. Clan.
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Abu Ruheihah. 170 touts i Su ice Him b’w nsah
at Kurah (Dhiban) I SiTadah
Hawaii's hah
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i Sara r hah
j Hawdtimah

Beni Tarif. 300 touts Mansur, ! Ruwdhunuh
at Zeqeibah, \V. of ! Dhurab'ah
. :•' % JS hi han I lei sah
Shihanbuh
Fa la hat
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Shuqur
Hamadhi
Abu Bureiz. 230 tents Moha/n med, Diyarnah
at Mokawir, NW. of JawajVi
Dhiban Qubeilal
Faqaha
JR ub utah
Hurut
; Tawdlibah
! Qu'aiduh
M uteilah
Hash im

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