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Marawali (Seyyid 5 Abd el-Bari); Mansuriyah (Sherif Ahmed
Yahya Balir and Mohammed Haidar); Quti' (Sherif Moham
med Hamud); Ghanamiyah.
Sherif Ahmed Yahya Bahr has great influence over all
the Tihamah north and south of Hodeidah, and is looked
on by the Beni Suleil, Quhrah, 'Absiyah, and Zaraniq, as
their religious leader.
12.—Zaraniq.
A powerful and warlike tribe, divided into two sections, the
Zaraniq esh-Sham and Zaraniq el-Yemen, and occupying
the country between the sea and the hills from a few miles
north of Beit el-Faqih almost to Zebid. The Zaraniq have
long been a thorn in the side of the Turks, and were
particularly troublesome during the Turco-Italian war.
Repeated expeditions have failed to subdue them, but
latterly there have been reports that the highland section,
under Sheikh ? Ali Ibn Hamud, has succumbed to Turkish
bribes. Mohammed Yahya Fashik, the chief of the lowland
section and paramount over the whole tribe, living at IIus-
einiyah, nine miles north of Zebid, has, however, continued
to hold out stoutly. In November 1915 he made common
cause with Idrisi by taking active measures against the
Turks, and has succeeded in effectually cutting all com
munications in the Tihamah from north to south. At the
beginning of 1916 he was attacked by an irregular force
from Mokhah, increased by 300 Arabs under the leadership of
Abela Effendi, the brother of Elias ^Osman, Kaimakam
of Mokhah, but unsuccessfully. In May 1916 he again
took the offensive and looted the Turkish Serai in Beit
ol-Faqih. 1 he two most important Sheikhs, after Sheikh
-Fashik, and closely allied with him, are Esh-Shami and
Munasar Saghir. Other Sheikhs, of whom nothing is known
save their names, are 'Abdullah Munasar, of Huseiniyah;
Nasir Jurmush; Ismail Ahmed, Sheikh of Qaramshah;
'Abdullah Duneidinah, of Zebid; Ahmed Risqallah, of A1