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84 THE BEDOUIN TRIBES ■

The BARRlYAH are an independent tribe, but so closely allied with
the Muteir that they are often held to be of the same stock. In all
political relations they are at one with the Muteir, and, like them,
they come under the authority of Ibn Sa‘ud. Their pasturages are
in Qaslm. The last report concerning them is that they opposed
‘Abdullah, the second son of the Sherif, when he raided Sedeir at
the end of 1914 in order to collect overdue taxes from the eastern
Ateibah, and that after some fighting they were defeated.
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MUTEIR AND BARRlYAH
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Tribe. Sub-Tribe.
Muteir, 1,500 tents. *Alwi.
Feisal ibn Sultan ed-DerwIsh. Feisal ibn Sultan. V
Ghaza ibn Xhuqeir. Jiblan.
'tSahud ibn Lami. i
Rakhman.
Muhsin ibn Zureibari.
Snhabah. f
1
Ghaneim ibn Shiblan.
Malalibah. I
Khilf el-Fighm.
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Barrlyah. 1,200 tents. 4Abayal. j
Na’if ibn Masls. Munahi ibn ‘Aihwan.
Deyahin.
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Shabab el-Qureifah. !
Barzan.
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‘Aqab abu Shuweibat.
Tha'lah. !
:
Jerman el-Humeiclfm.
‘Abdillah. i
Ibn Saqlyan. i ■
IVdsil.
Ibn Thamnah.

5. Beni Khdlid f
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The BENI KHALID are an ancient tribe of irreproachable iineage,
greatly fallen in c-state. Stranded witnesses to its former wide
range are to be found in a Khalid element of the settled popu­
lation of Qaslm (especially at Aneizah), of Zilfi in Sedeir, of Malham
in ’Aridh, and elsewhere in Nejd. The main reinnant, however, is
the Bedouin tribe of the name which ranges north of the ’A]man on
the Gulf shore between the Wadi Maqta; on the north and the middle
of the Bayadh district on the south. Inland they wander into the
Summan plateau. Scattered communities have settled in various
outside localities, e.g. Oman, Musallamlyah Island, Qatlf, the Hasa
Oasis, Bahrein, and Koweit, where the tribesmen have become
pearl-fishers, &c. The nomads'own considerable date-groves.