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(B) KERAK AND SHOBAK
The Arabs of the Kerak-Shobak district were long the bane of all
travellers and entirely beyond official control. They are noted robbers,
cruel, faithless, and intractable. Since the establishment of a Turkish
Mutesarrif at Kerak and a Kaimmakam at Shobak, they have been
reduced to some sort of order; but in the autumn of 1910 the Majallyah
of Kerak revolted, tore up the Hejaz Railway in several places, killed
the employes, held up the trains, and stripped the passengers. They
were severely repressed by Sami Pasha, who called all the Bedouins as
far as Ma'an to account, including the Huweitat. His energetic action
has not yet faded entirely from memory.
All the tribes of this group are cultivators and sheep-breeders.
Those who have houses in Kerak or Shobak send out their flocks into
the desert in spring. The Shobak Arabs exact tribute from the Kerak
people. The list here given is taken from Jaussen, who explains that
the word house, used as a unit in his computation, implies the patriarchal
family, including the married sons with their wives and families.
TRIBES OF KERAK AND SHOBAK
Tribe.
A rabs of K erak.
Salih el-Mujalli
Sub-Tribe.
Majdltyah, 140 houses
Salih
Ma'aitah, 240 houses
Yusuf Saher
Sara irah, 160 houses
Yahya
Tardwinah, 200 houses
Husein ibn Mohammed
Dhumur, 160 houses
Mahmud ibn Taha
Clan.
'Ashlrat Yiisuf
Salih
' A shir at Suleiman
( Khalil
'A shir at Ghabun
Khalil ibn Da'ud
' A shir at Da fid
'Awwad
'Ashlrat Rashaidah
Sahir
'Ashlrat Zaqd'ilah
Yusuf
'Ashlrat Beyd'idah
Ja'far
' A shir at Jaldmdah
'A shir at Laghawdt
' A shir at ' Ai
Yahya
'Ashlrat Aqd'ilah
Salim ibn 'Isa
' A shir at Dd'ud
Salim ibn 'Ayyad
' A shir at Tardwinah
Husein ibn Mohammed
'Ashlrat Qatd'unei
Yusuf
'Ashlrat Nawd'isah
Mushawwah
'Ashlrat Dhumur
MahmQd ibn Taha