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KHUWAIR (K hor)—
A creek and a village in the Ras-al-Khaimah district {%. v.) of Trucial 'OmXn.
KHUWAISAH (U mm)—
Same wells in the Radaif tract {q.v.) of the Hisa district, eastern Arabia.
KHUWAISAH (U mm-al)—-
A well in the Kuwait Principality situated 5 miles from Jahrah on the way to Umm
Qasr. The well is now silted up. There are a few date trees round about.
KHUWAITAR—
A section of the Yal Sa'ad tribe (q.v.) of the 'Oman Sultanate.
KHUWAITIR (Al)—
A section of the 'Ajman tribe—((/.v.).
KHUWAITMAH—
Some wells in the Jafurah desert (q.v.) of eastern Arabia.
KHUWAWIS (B ul)—
A well in Khatam {q.v.), Trucial 'Oman.
KHUZAIM (A l) or A l KHAZAIYIM—
A section of the Al Shibil, one of the rural tribes of 'Iraq {q.v.).
KHUZRAH('A in) or 'A in KHUDRAH—
A spring in the Shamlyah desert of northern Arabia and situated 26 miles by road
from Karbala along the western route to Jabal Shammar. There is always water at
'Ain Khuzrah after the winter rains but it is doubtful whether the supply is perennial.
KIBAISH—
See Chibaish.
KIBAISI—-
The singular form of Kibisah {q.v.), a tribe of Qatar and
KIBASI—
One of the small creeks of the Shatt-al-'Arab {q.v.) on the
town.
KIBASI-AS-SAGHIR—
A large creek of the Shatt-al-'Arab {q.v.), left bank, Qurnah village to Basrah.
KIBASI (J azirat-al)—
The name of a riverside tract on the left bank of the Shatt-al-'Arab {q.v.), a little above
Basrah town.
KIBlSAH—
Singular KibaisL A small and rather unsettled tribe of Arabs, found chiefly in Qatar,
but represented also in Bahrain. Their principal settlements at the present day are
Khuwair Hassan and Fuwairat in Qatar where they have about 80 and 50 houses respect
ively ; besides these they have a few houses at Hadlyah and Sumaismah in Qatar, and at
Jasairah and Rifa'-al-Gharbi on Bahrain Island. Their chief occupation is pearl diving,
but those of Qatar also own camels, sheep, donkeys and cattle, with which they retire
into the interior of the peninsula in the cold weather ; in summer they leave their animals
to the care of local Bedouins and betake themselves to the pearl fisheries. In religion
the Kiblsah are Maliki Sunnis. The tribe once lived mostly at Dohah, but they were
compelled by a difficulty with the 'Amamarah to remove to Khuwair Hassan. Later
they took part with the Na'im in the foundation of Zubarah, but after a time they return
ed to Khuwair Hassan, which is still their headquarters.
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Bahrain in eastern Arabia,
left bank just above Basrah