"شخصيات، شبه الجزيرة العربية" [‎١‎١‎١] (٣٧٤/١١٥)

Ill
i,800 tents
Tribe,
SIBA 4
Sub-Tribe.
Qumussa, 800 tents
L Githwan ibn Murshid
Ressdlln
Hamad ibn Aida
Clan.
Khumsdn
Sagr ibn Museirib
'Aniirah
Shinan ibn Sheteiwi
'Ubida, i.ooo tents
Burjas ibn Hudeib
Rahammah
Mohammed ibn Sa'id
Musika
Mubarak ibn Qiladan
Muwaiqah
Fadhil ibn Muweini'
Duwwdm
'Uqeil el-Fiqiqi
Tribe,
800 tents
Sajir er-Ratadi
SELQA
Sub-Tribe.
Shimldn
Madhydn
'Uqeil ibn Madhyan
Metarafah
Buneyyah ibn Wuteif
2. The Duleim.
The DULEIM are of mixed blood. According to their own tradition
they came out of Nejd into the Syrian desert. They say that Thamir,
jidd of the Duleim, and his brother Jabbar, jidd of the Jubur, guided by
a man of the Sulubba, occupied the wells of Muheiwir in the Wadi
They wander over the desert on either side of the Euphrates fiom
Fellujah almost to Anah, sharing the Eastern Shamiyah, the Syrian desert,
with the 'Amarat, with whom they are in close alliance. Ihey have
cultivated ground in the Euphrates valley, and rear large flocks of sheep
which supply the Damascus market. Every winter the dealers come out
across the Hamad, and, staying each with his own Sheikh, purchase the
season's lambs, and drive them home across the grassy steppe in the
spring. The Duleim are not camel-breeders ; their supply is little more
than sufficient for their own needs. The Shammar of the Jezirah are
their enemies, and there is constant feud between them and the Shiah
tribes of Traq, such as the Beni Hasan, who pasture their sheep in the
desert round Kerbela. They are noted thieves, and have always given
trouble on the Euphrates highroad, where they hold up every unprotected
caravan. In 1910 Nazim Pasha repressed them with a stern hand, and
during his brief administration at Baghdad, travellers and merchantb
journeyed in security. 'Ali Suleiman, the paramount Sheikh of the
Duleim, was on terms of friendship with Jemal Pasha, who succeeded
Nazim, and he has continued to court the favour of the Ottoman Govern
ment. He owns a house and palm gardens at Rumadi, and can, therefore,
be coerced into good behaviour. He is not a man of much intelligence,
and prefers, to any active share in politics, a quiet life and the peaceful
enjoyment of the position left him by his father, Suleiman esh-Sharqi,
who was a commanding figure in the 'Iraq. Ibn Qu'ad camps mostly on
the east bank of the Euphrates.
Hauran.