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fighting men. Their Paramount Chief is the Sheikh of the Fuheidah clan
of the ShabIb (or Bishr) sub-tribe, which is notorious for outrages com
mitted on travellers, fishermen, and Turks. The whole tribe is unashamedly
predatory, recognizing no code but its own. It maintains perpetual feud
with the 'Ajman and the Beni Khalid.
AHL MURRAH
Sub-Tribe.
Shabib (or Bishr).
Clan.
' Ali ibn Murrah.
Jdbir.
'Adhbah.
Baheih.
Bureid.
Ddwi.
Fuheidah.
Ghafrdn.
Hddi.
Hasan.
Juheish.
Shabib.
Zukeimah.
Zibddn.
Ghiydthin.
Jar aba'ah.
Ndbit.
Ghadhbdn.
Ahl Ibn-Na'dm.
9. The M and sir.
The MANAS IR are a small independent tribe in the ill-known Dhafrah
district, bordering on the domain of the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi, to whom,
if to any one, they owe a vague allegiance, having for a generation or so
been free of tribute to Ibn Sa'ud. They are the last predominantly
nomadic tribe towards the south, the Great Desert and the Jafurah
Desert enclosing their dira S. and W., and the mainly settled and friendly
Beni Yas of the Trucial Coast lying E. North lies the dira of the Ahl
Murrah, with whom the Manasir seem to be on better terms than any
one else is. In winter the whole tribe moves into or near El-Qatar. In
summer part of it may be found as far south as the Bireimi Oasis in
NW. Oman. Mainly pastoral, the Manasir possess arable land and summer
settlements in Dhafrah (Liwah district), and are much in advance of the
Ahl Murrah in civilization.
Both in religious tenets and political connexions they pertain to Oman.
There seems to be no Paramount Mansuri Chief. The tribe does not
number above 1,500 souls.
MANASIR
Sub-Tribe.
M undhir.
Rahamah.
Sha'ar.
Clan.
Ka'dbarah.
Mdni'.
M ardshid.
Metdwa'ah.
Meddhimah.
Khail.
Tareif (or Janfib).
Tardrifah.
Wabrdn.
Ghuweinam.
Rasheyyid.
Thuweibit.