'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎856] (911/1050)

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and together with the Sakhur retired east into the Anazeh dira, where the Government
could not reach them. They are charged with the protection of the Hejaz Railway from
Kerak to Ma'an, and receive a yearly subsidy. Since Sami Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. 's expedition into the
desert in 1910, they have regarded Ottoman authority with a certain amount of respect.
Audeh's cousin, Mohammed abu Tayi, was imprisoned for several months in Damascus,
and upon his release was made responsible for the payment of the sheep and camel-
tax of his tribe—a lucrative position which he would be unwilling to forfeit.
In the spring the Tayi pasture over the north and east of the Jebel Tubik ; the Jazi
camp to the south and south-west. In the summer the tribe draws into Ma'an, where
it owns a little cultivation, and to Jafar, a depression east of Ma'an. Ma'an is the
northern limit of the sandstone desert. Here the grassy downs of the Beni Sakhr country
give place to forbidding leagues of rock weathered into fantastic shapes and diversified
by sand-hills. Wells are few ; nevertheless, in the stands tone bottoms there is a suffi
ciency of small shrubs and succulent weeds after the scanty rain.
The Huweitat are not among the great camel-owners ; probably the whole of the Syrian
branch has not more than 5,000 to 8,000 animals.
The Huweitat claim to be Ashraf, i.e., descendants of the prophet through his daughter
Fatima ; but it has been conjectured that they have a history which is ethnologically of
far greater interest. They may be the descendants of the Nabataeans, who held tho
caravan road to Yemen—the old spice road—and had their capital at Petra, a few
hours west of Ma'an.
Tribe, Sub-tribe, Clans,
Arar ibn Jazi.
Salim ibn Dhiyah.
Audeh ibn Harb abu Tayi,
Salim ibn 'Aleian.
Salim abu Rukeib.
Hasan ibn Yad.
Sa'd abu Nar.
Suweilim abu Dhuhur.
HUWAITIYAH (N ahe)—
About a mile upstream of Yeddu. There is a small depression called Sufha, due south
of Yeddu, which is fed by some small cuts between Yeddu and Nahr Kuwait>yah. This
depression when full drains ito the Huwaitiyah marsh. The Sha'ab (or Sh'ib) Sufah
does not connect with Sha'ab Chahalah.
HU WAXY AH—
See Sabai' ( Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. ).
HUWAIYAT—
See Harrat Khaibar.
HU W AIZ AH—
See Dawasir (Widyan).
HUWAJIR (T bibe)—
See Hasan (Bani Ba).
HUWALAH OR HULAH—
Singular Holi. A class of Sunni Arabs found in Bahrain, Hasa, Qatar and Trucial
'Oman, and on the island of Sirri; they are a community who, after being domiciled
for years or even generations on the Persian coast of the Gulf, have returned whether
as individuals or groups to the Arabian side ; the name of ' 1 Huwalah '' is not one
acquired by them during their sojourn in Persia, but has been conferred on them by
the Arabs among whom they settled on their return to Arabia.
Dvisions. —Many of the Huwailah are unable to say from which of the Arab tribes
they are descended. Some claim to be Bani Tamim and others to be Maraziq. As
Huwailah they have no tribal institutions or organisation, but it is obserbed that they
Huweitat. 400 tents
Arar ibn Jazi.
Audeh abu Tayi.
Huweitat of Akaba.
Hasan ibn Yad.
Huweitat of Siaai.
1,200 camels.
Ihn Jazi, 100 tents
Dhiyabat, 15 tents
Taway eh, 150 tents
Demani, 40 tents
BuJceibat, 80 tents
Amran.
Ala win
Sareifin Ghanamin
Dubur