'Reports of administration for 1918 of divisions and districts of the occupied territories in Mesopotamia. Volume I' [‎115r] (234/470)

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The only other tribes that cultivate at all in this district are the
A1 MaTadhid
A1 Laghar -
A1 Jaghaif -
Albu Haiyat
Albu Ghanam
On the left bank in the vicinity of Susah.
On the left bank.
On the right bank.
On the right bank.
On the right bank.
All these tribes are alien, but follow Dulaim Shaikhs.
Until the fall of Ramadi they turned to Shaikh ‘Ali ibn Sulaiman, but from that
time until ‘Anah was occupied he has been out of touch with them, and consequently
they have fallen away from their allegiance.
They are mostly nomadic sheep-breeders, and only a very small portion of them
cultivate.
The remainder of the population in the district is non-tribal.
Until recently the whole of the district below ‘Anah lay between our advanced
troops and the Turks, consequently the district suffered and a large portion of the
population drifted down-stream into our lines for safety and work.
This has also affected the trend of tribal feeling, ‘Aftan ibn Sharqi being in
the Turkish area and Nijris al Qa‘ud of the Albu Nimr, who openly sided with the
Turks, naturally feel sore against the Shaikhs lower down the river who submitted
to us on the occupation of Ramadi and benefitted accordingly.
The Hit district, which extends southward of the ‘Anah district to the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Suwaib (T.C. 146A. DD 61 a.), on the left bank and to the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Muhammadi
(T.C. 146A. DD 61 c. d.) on the right bank, is peculiar in that it is entirely non-tribal.
The conditions prevailing of non-tribal mulk holdings are very similar to those
in the southern portion of the ‘Anah district and the advisability of extending its
boundaries northwards to include Hadithah might be considered.
The Ramadi district is entirely Dulaim, stretching from the Hit district to
the north of the Saqlawiyah Canal on the left bank and on the right bank to Sinn
al Dhibban (T.C. 144B 20 c.).
Between the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Suwaib and the Saqlawiyah on the Jazirah are the cultivators
of the Albu Nimr and the Albu Dhiyab, separated by the Albu ‘Assaf, a subsection
of the Albu Rudaini.
All the subsections up-river of the line AA on the tribal map acknowledge
Shaukah ibn Mutlaq of the Albu Muhammad al Dhiyab, except the Albu Ali al
Jasim and the Albu ‘Assaf. In addition, Shaukah controls the Albu Farraj
(‘Azzah) and Albu Mijbil (Wa‘idh) extraneous tribes.
The heads of the two sub-sections of the Albu Nimr, the Albu Hillah and
Albu Hamad al Husain, are Ikhtiyars of Shaukah, but the sheep and camel-breeders
of these two sections still turn to Nijris al Qa‘ud as their Shaikh.
Fahad al Hillal, who set up as Shaikh of the Albu Nimr and claimed to be able
to control the whole of the tribe, has failed miserably and there are signs that even
his sub-sections, the Albu Hamid al Husain, are getting tired of his incapacity.
Perhaps when Nijris is properly chastised he may be prepared to return to
his former allegiance to Shaukah.
Below the line “ A ” already mentioned, Mushin al Hardan controls the tribes
to the Saklawiyah as well as the Albu ‘Ali al Jasim. ,
On the right bank from the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Muhammadi down-stream to Sinn al Dhibban
extend the cultivators of various sections of the Albu Rudaini, Albu ‘Assaf and
Albu ‘Alwan. All these turn to Ali ibn Sulaiman.
This Shaikh controls by far the largest portion of the Dulaim and has
considerable influence with the other independent Shaikhs of the Dulaim.
This completes the Ramadi district and the Fallujah district extends to the
Southern boundaries of the Division. Below the mouth of the Saklawiyah Canal
to Fallujah and across to the Saklawiyah and for a shortd istance below Sinn al
Dhibban on the right bank, are the Muhamdah under Habib al Shillal. Between
the Muhamdah on the left bank and the Zoba* lay the Jumailah under ‘Abbas al
Jassam.
On the right bank are the remaining large section of the Dulaim, the Albu Tsa
extending down stream to the limits of the Division and to the Jannabiyin.
The 'remaining large tribe in this district are the Zoba‘ under the Shaikhship
of Dhari ibn Dhahir. This in the course of time has absorbed a few settled sections
of other tribes of extraneous origin, such as the Albu Sodah, Hitawiyin and the
Qaraghul (Dulaim) and the Al Haib (Jubur).
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