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MAN-MAN
Section.
Sub-Section.
Fighting
strength (of
sub-section).
Remark ? (on soction).
Sha'ar (AI Ba)
Do.
Do.
Ghuwainam (Al) ..
Rashaiyid (Al)
Thuwaibit (Al Bu)
30
20
1
10
1
^ The Al Bu Sha'ar winter
in or towards Qatar
and their summer
quarters are in Liwah
where they occupy
1 Jarairah, Jarrah and
Mosal. Their chief man
is Muhammad-bin-
Jaraiw,
From the above facts it may ba inferred that the total number of the tribe is about
1 ,400 souls.
The Manasir are HinawTyah in politics and Muv/alik in religion. They were formerly
subject to tl e Wahhaabi government and in 1865 were understood to pay a contribution
worth §22,000 a year, chieiiy in kind, into the Wahhaabi treasury ; now they are
independent of control but maintain some degree of intercourse with the town of
Abu Dhabi and its Shaikh.
MANASIR—
One of the divisions of the Shammar T5qah tribe (q.v.), of Iraq.
MANASlR—
A section of the Southern Shammar tribe {q.v.), of the Aslam division.
MANATiF—
A scattered village in the Saham sub-wilayat {q.v.), of the Sultanate of 'Oman.
MANAWARAH—
Singular Manaiwari ; one of the Hinawi tribes of the 'Oman Sultanate {q.v.).
MANAWI-AL-PASHA (N ahp.)—-
One of the creeks of Basrah town {q. v.).
MANDALI—
. ^ village in 'Iraq, nearly 80 miles by road east-north-east from Baghdad and within
about 4 miles of the Persian frontier. It lies near the bank of the Uongir river and
possesses a good deal J date pi.n and other enltivation. Maudali has a popnlation e f
1 .600 souls and was formerly the chef-lieu of a 2nd elass Qadha in the Baghdad SanjSq.
MAX DA Lf YAH GHABBI—") „
C /wo adjacent localities on the left bank of the
MANDALlYAH SHARQI— J Tl g ris (?• v -) a little below Shaikh Sa'ad.
MANDAR (also Mandhar or Maktar)
A hamlet in Yemen, South-wostorn At - qK ;.. „
on the coastal track that leads to Ghulaifiqah 'in i SO 1°^ Hodaicl l atl
Hawak tribe and consists of a score of huts with il-K- ■ e ^ ; lt . b8lon g 3 to the
hundred yards from the shore.— {Wauhope,' 1916.) ^ ' water » situated a few
MANDHAKH (Island)—
See Farasan (Islands and Bank); islands.