Page 76 - A Hand book of Arabia Vol 1 (iii) Ch 3

TRIBES OF THE CENTRAL EAST 79

He keeps to the Mosul district, while two of his cousins, ‘Abd el-
Muhsin and Mohammed, sons of ‘Abd el-Kerlm, roam the Khabur
country. The sons of Faris are young and not of much account.
The eldest now living, Mish'al, is nephew, through his mother, of
Noweidis et-Timyat of the Tuman (Shammar of the Jebel). Some
of the many sons of Ferhan own cultivated land on the southern
reaches of the Tigris, and one, Humeidi, has almost dropped nomad
habits and passes much of his time in a house which he has built in
Baghdad.
Between ‘Amarah and Baghdad there is a group of small tribes, the
Tauqah (Toga), who call themselves Shammar, though they are of
mixed blood. They are half-nomadic, going out into the desert west
of the Euphrates in spring with their sheep and donkeys, and coming
back into their Jezirah villages in the summer. The chief of
these*tribes are the Mas‘ud (Mes‘ud), between Museyyib and
Kerbela, the Zagarit, round Kerbela, and the Zauba‘ (Zoba), five
hours.west of Baghdad. They are Shiah, and, like all settled
Arabs, fairly numerous.

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SHAMMAR OF NEJD

Tribe. Sub’Tribe. Clan.
‘Abdah. 1,500 tents Mufadhdhal Bureik
Ibn Jebrin Mitni ibn Jebrin Ibn Bureik
Ibn ‘Ajil Fadhl
Ibn ‘Ali ‘Aqab ibn ‘Ajil (maternal 1
:
uncle of Emir ‘Abd el-‘Aziz)
Ja'far
I
Wadi ibn ‘Ali I
Weibdr
Ibn Shureim
! Jeniddah
Hamid el-Hihi
* 4 Amud
; !
j Slash ibn Foisal
! Deqhairdt (small) !
I
Aslam. J uheish
,v. . . ^200 tents
,}han et-Tawalah j Mas'ud (Mesyud)
‘Adhib ibn El-Ghcisim
Firiduh (Fruddah)
‘Amash el-Ferid
W ureik # i
‘Aqab ibn Wureik !

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