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oannAs al mozAn al husaini.
Headman of al Husaini who live with the Musharraf in an Island next 'Ibadah on
Hammar. About 300 persons. The lands are owned by Mutlaq al Humud al Sa'dun,
but the tribe pays him no rent. Ournah division.
• qarAbit EFFENDI.
Prominent Christian merchant of Kirkuk, having commercial intercourse with the
local tribes.
QARTAS, ‘ABDUF wahAb.
Once a rich man, owns a house on the river below Basrah. Has been in Beyrut,
more enlightened than the average Basrawi; cordially disliked Saiyid Talib, but inclines
to pan-Arab sympathies. Was formerly a deputy. Married a daughter of Yusuf Pasha
Zuhair. His son, Sulaiman, is both stupid and ignorant.
qAsid AL NAHI.
Paramount Shaikh of the Hachcham (Hakkam), a Muntafiq tribe of the B. Malik
Division, Mujarrah group. He was greatly attached to ‘Ajaimi in the past. This has
handicapped him in his dealings with us. He has been staunch to us ever since we have
been at Suq, in spite of much intrigue which has gone on around him. He is a famous
fighting man, and led the three revolts against the Turks which took place in the Suq
district. He is married to the daughter of Muzai'il, Shaikh of the Hasan, and has great
influence over that tribe. Practically, he controls the whole Mujarrah group of the B.
Malik.
1,000 fighting men on both banks of Euphrates. It is related that m one of his revolts
against the Turks he deceived the latter into thinking that his Arabs had machine guns
with them by banging a club against a kerosene oil tin which was concealed behind a tree.
A rogue, but a fairly independent and pleasant rogue. During the period leading up to
the fall of Kut he was one of the chief means of preventing open rebellion among the
tribes of Suq. Grasping, cunning and shrewd.
QASIM IBN MUHAMMAD EFFENDI.
Married to a sister of Muhammad Agha of Qazani. Like Jasim ibn Muhammad
‘Ali, he has been a useful assistant to Muhammad Agha, and is now Mamur Shu bah for
Qazani.
QASSAB IBN ‘ATTAR. rvAA -C t. 1
Paramount shaikh of the Sarraj, a powerful section of the Bam Rabi'ah. 1 000 fighting
men on the E. bank of the Gharraf, S. of Kilt. Submitted on the fall of Su< b ^ ‘ ™ ,,
to Turkish allegiance. He is a man of strong personality aged abo "Q 5 n C TZ h Hn„
with the Turks when the seige of Kut began, hm country betng in zon ® of F ^
and was more virulently anti-British than other shaikhs o e ■ iradhim Yazdi'
1918, surrendered unconditionally to the British t roug u a shaikh
with his two eldest sons Khaiyun and Fahh. Muhammad another son i n ow shaikh
of the tribe, which he rules effectively. Qassab has not been reinstated in his states,
and is now living at Basrah by order of the C.C.
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to the Euphrates from Bughailah about three years ag .
him and ‘Addai al Jaryan of the Albu Sultan.
QATA‘ AL BUTT . T .
^ ^h. ^yipu N^sir section S mall in stature, cunning. During
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kept a leg in either camp. Has had '‘ft 1 ® , o fficer Nasirlyah, who in 1917 managed
has occupied the attention of the Poht matter. Up till October, 1917,
considerably to strengthen Qata' al Buti s name ly the Wutaiwat, Albu Huwairah
half Shaikh Qata"s tribe were still hostile to us^na y^ ^ ^ Q - ta . s
and Albu Hawalah sections. These have d cons i 3 tently since
influence. Qata‘, for all his faults d ®^ ^^^ 000 ! rais of the Uairij,
Nasiriyah was captured in July, 1915. tie g
and receives a subsidy of Rs. 200 p.m.
QATA‘ ibn SUWAIF.
Sudan. See ‘Amr ibn Suwaif. o