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Tribe.
Shammar. 2,000 tents
'Asi ibn Ferhan
'Abd el-Muhsin ibn 'Abd
el-Kerim
Mohammed ibn 'Abd el-
Kerim
SHAMMAR OF JEZIRAH
Sub-Tribe.
Khdrisah {Khrussah)
'Asi ibn Ferhan
' Abdah
Menawir ibn Suqi
Sinjdrah
'Abd el-Muhsin Mohammed
(Sinjarah) Thdbit
Mit'ab el-Hadab el-Qu'eit
('Abdah) 'Amud
(Ttiman) Sd'ih,
Jed'an ibn Hasan
Ferhan es-Sudeid
('Abdah) Feddghah
Bander ibn 'Ayadah
Clan.
Bureik
'Aleyydn
T ribe.
Tauqah.
SHAMMAR OF 'IRAQ
Sub-Tribe.
Mas'ud
Zagdrit
Zauba'
Dhahi el-Mohammed
Clan.
2. Beni Tamim.
The BENI TAMIM are a famous stock of the northern people, who
played an important part in Arabian history before the age of the
prophet, when they extended from the Syrian desert to Yemamah. They
maintain their ancient seat, for they still form a large proportion of
the settled population of Nejd and Jebel Shammar; the oases of
Qashn are almost exclusively inhabited by them and by the Beni Khalid.
But they are no longer an independent tribe ; they acknowledge the
authority of Ibn Sa'ud or of Ibn Rashid. At a very early date, probably
before the Mohammedan invasion^ they began to come up into Meso
potamia, where they are still to be found near Tarmlyah (some 1,500
families). All these are shepherds, and while the Tamim of Nejd are
strifct Wahabites, their kinsmen of Mesopotamia are Shiahs.
3. The Dhafir [or Dhufir).
The DHAFIR form an important tribe whose district extends south
of the Shatt el-'Arab and Euphrates from near Zobeir to Samawah. From
Samawah a line drawn almost due south to the vicinity of Hafar in the Batin
would mark their frontier, and the depression of the Batin forms the SE.
side of the triangle which encloses their territory. Their neighbours are the
Muntefiq Confederation to the NE., the Shammar to the W., the Muteir
and 'Ajman to the E., while to the south they are in touch with the Sebei',
one of the tribes which acknowledge the authority of Ibn Sa'ud. The
Samld section, and more particularly the Juwasim (or Jawasim, orig.
Qawasim), are accustomed to cross the Euphrates in the summer and
pasture their flocks in the Traq.