"دليل الجزيرة العربية المجلد II" [‎١‎٥‎٩‎٦] (٦٨٨/٦٧٥)

1596
RUW—RUW
Name.
Position.
Nature.
Remarks.
Tibat
On the west coast,
nearly 5 miles
south-south-west of
Bakhah.
Village of 15 houses
on a sandy beach
with some date
trees.
Sharjah jurisdiction
begins 2J miles south-
south-west of this
village at Ras-ash-
Shaam: Tibat is the
last village of Ruus-
al-Jibal in this direc
tion. The people live
by fishing and are
Shihuh of the Bani
Hadiyah section.
There are 4 fishing
boats here.
. In the foregoing table a few unimportant and uninhabited islands are omitted, of
which the native names have not been ascertained with certainty.
Administration. —Ruus-al-Jibal is a district in the Sultanate of 'Oman. The Sultan
is represented by a Wali who has his seat at Khasab, in the article on which his position
is described. The district brings in no revenue to the Masqat exchequer and it prob
ably does not even pay for its own administration— if the slight political supervision
exercised by the Wali may be called by such a name. The amount annually collected
by the Wali as Zakat is about $600, and the present Sultan of 'Oman (Saiyid Faisal)
has in addition, out of his own private property, assigned him at Khasab a date planta
tion and land of the value of §1,000 annually.
RUWA—
Some wells in Hushum {q.v.), in the Hasa district of eastern Arabia.
RUW AD (Ar)—
A village in Hadhramaut, southern Arabia, situated in Wadi Uthrib at a distance of
about 10 miles from its mouth. One mile south of Ar-Ruwad is Hisn Bu 'Ali, with a
well of good water, some cultivation, and four small towers, alongside of small tamarisk
jungle.— {Bury, 1899).
RUWAHAH (BANI)—
Singular Ruwahi or Ruwaihi. This important tribe of Hajar In the Sultanate of
' 'Oman are said to be of Nizari descent, but they are now attached to the Hinawi
political faction ; in religion they are Ibadhis. Their principal seat is the upper part
'of the Wadi Samail, called Wadi Bani Ruwahah, which they entirely monopolise, and
where they have about 900 houses ; but they also inhabit the lower villages of 'Adhdah
50 houses), Rissah (II) (20 houses), Rufai'ah (80 houses), Qarwashiva'h (50 houses),
Naghzah (50 houses), Suharah (100 houses), Hijrat Wilad Sa'ad (50 houses), Jammar
(75 houses), Hijrat-al-Bakriyin (100 houses), Ibrahimiyah (40 houses). Bait Walad-al-
Khalili (100 houses), Dighal (100 huses), Subarah (50 houses), Daqdaqain (20 houses) and
Tasawir (25 houses). In Wadi Boshar they are found at Falaj-ash-Sham (15 houses),
in Wadi Dima at Hajir (100 houses), and in 'Oman Proper at Izki, Khadhra Bin
Daffa' (60 houses), Nizwa (4 houses) and Saddi (10 houses). In Wadi Mistal, on the
northern side of the Western Hajar hills, they occur at Ghubrat Bani Ruwahah (40
houses) and Hail (40 houses). The greater part of Wadi 'Andam belongs to them
and the whole of Wadi Mahram. Their total number is perhaps 18,500 souls.
The Bani Ruwahah are a troublesome tribe ; they were consistently adversaries of the
Sultan of Oman during the reign of Turki (1871-88) and are supposed to be still very
hostile to the ruling power ; but they can be subsidised when necessarv, and in 1905 the
Sultan made use of them Against the Bani Riyam of Izki and Birkat-al-Moz. They are